While eating lunch in Uganda on Sunday, October 19th, a tall, well-built man sat down two seats away from me wearing a yellow t-shirt with a block M and the words “go blue” in Polish. I didn’t think it would affect my New Years plans. At the time, I just told him the shirt was [...]
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You Won the Girl at Table 17
Posted in journal on December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Being Ballsy
Posted in journal on September 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last week I posted a panic-inducing blog on the website of my alter-ego – the proper teacher girl who lives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and allows her entire family and network of friends to know, what they believe to be, the intimate secrets of her life abroad. In the blog I described my walk home [...]
Life Cycles
Posted in journal on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m trying to find a pattern in my life. I have a rough sense of the trajectory that got me to Addis Ababa, but now I’m trying to find the secret to emotional survival here. Today I played indoor soccer, and tomorrow is my first day of cross-country practice. Part of me thinks that I’m [...]
Color… or Why I Didn’t Go to Navy
Posted in journal on August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I stumbled half awake out of the van at 4:30 am, local time, and took in my ground floor apartment, I almost cried. One whole wall seemed to be made entirely of doors and glass with no windows anywhere. The orange glare of the lights in the courtyard emanated depressingly into every glass pane [...]
really going?
Posted in journal on July 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In two weeks, I’ll be living in an apartment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Looking around my current apartment it’s clear that something is happening. I have never sorted and organized and tossed and saved so much at a time. Each item in my apartment must be handled to ensure that nothing unnecessary goes. But what’s [...]
protect a tricycle
Posted in journal on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have long been perplexed by the selection of advertising on the fringes of webpages. Some of it seems to reflect my interests with eerie accuracy. Yes, I am a buckeye. Yes, I think that boys are cute. Other ads are more bizarre. What have I done to suggest I want to buy jewelry [...]
internot or the world wide wasteland
Posted in journal on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve become skeptical of the value of information on the internet for sometime, and today marks a true low. The idea that anyone can put their two cents up on the internet is great — I’m doing it now. The fact that there are virtually no expert opinions on the internet, no central way to [...]
evelyn
Posted in NYC, fashion, journal on May 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Since childhood, I have had an affinity for the Twelve Dancing Princesses fairy tale. I thought it was because the girls seemed the most independently minded, able to outwit their father and the men who sought to claim them. Now I’m beginning to wonder if I just wanted to join their sisterhood of shoe destruction. [...]
competing for affections
Posted in journal on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My last “boyfriend” and I broke up a couple of years ago, but I arrive at most social gatherings or phone conversations with some new “boy story”. I am notorious for “un-dating”, meeting men on the street, and being fearless when I really like a guy. Le Pete tells me that un-dating can’t be done [...]
daylight and time
Posted in journal on March 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have nerdy parents, the very coolest of nerdy parents, but nerdy none-the-less. My father is an engineer and my mother is a librarian. They live near the western edge of the eastern time zone. As an east-coaster, I adore daylight savings time. It allows me to leave work a little later and still run [...]
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