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This has been my summer so far:
--two weeks at women writing for a change, assisting with writing programs for girls (8th through college freshman, altogether). it was exhausting and inspiring and i wish i could spend all summer doing it.
--two games of ultimate frisbee, where i feel utterly useless because everyone on the team (with the exception of my father, who's much older than me and has a bad knee) is much better than me, and in two games i have not actually thrown a frisbee.
--one ice cream with katherine and axis and mr. g.
--one reds baseball game with sarah from wwfc and her coaching friend and some other irritatingly conservative guy. we had great seats, in an area where they actually take your order and then bring food to you, but the reds lost terribly to the white sox.
--dar williams concert with my mother in columbus. amaaaaazing. i adore dar more than ever now, AND i got to meet her (she let me hug her, and said i looked like kelly clarkson)
--quality time with amy walls and indian food.
--one fantastic weekend in columbus with adam, for donny's wedding. we got to eat cane's chicken fingers AND dance to "melt with you," which is our song, AND stay in bed til past noon, AND enjoy delicious gelato and mexican food and buca di bepo's, AND adam looked fantastic in a tux. and i wish he weren't in new york for the rest of the summer, though i'm looking forward to visiting him there.
but not til after i go to san diego with my brother and seattle/olympia with my mother. busy july.
Also, from Lois' journal:
If you comment on this post:
1. I'll respond with something random about you (probably an inside joke of some kind)
2. I'll challenge you to try something
3. I'll pick a color that i associate with you
4. I'll tell you something i like about you
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. I'll ask you something i've always wanted to ask you
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on yours
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[11 May 2006|07:22pm] |
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first off, since i never updated the situation from the last post-- i used my feminine charms and wiles, and convinced adam to stay together, so we're going on a year now. jeez. that's a long time. second off, i don't feel like working on my turn of the screw paper for english class, so instead i'm doing this nifty itunes meme. what you do is you put itunes on shuffle, and then use whatever comes up for the answers.
( meme )
No classes on Fridays, so my week is over!! Thirsty Thursday/ English Paper Slaving Thursday, here I come.
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| fuck april |
[03 Apr 2006|01:10am] |
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( here )
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[01 Apr 2006|06:35pm] |
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http://kevan.org/nohari?name=mereimage
Man, I don't know about that one (it's like the johari window, but for negative traits). But try it.
Spring quarter's underway. I don't like Andrew Hudgins poetry. I don't like the fact that we'll be spending four weeks on Moby Dick in my 398 class. I do like Paris, and kind of wish I were still there. Pictures are up on the facebook. I worked out today, mainly so I could weigh myself at the gym. Stupid winter/ anti-Atkins all bread diet in France. Lots of ellipticalizing is in order this quarter.
Tonight is: burrito noches night, game night at Bryan's, and bonfire night at Adam's house.
Tomorrow I start learning how to be a sunday school teacher, and of course spend several hours in front of the television watching all new episodes of Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy.
That's about it. I really just wanted to post the link, but felt like I ought to do some sort of update on How I Am as well. I'm in need of a shower, is how I am.
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[18 Feb 2006|12:17am] |
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| Your Hat Personality Is A | 
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I'm sleepy. It's been a pretty boring Friday night, as far as Friday nights go. Except that I kicked ass at Hillel, where I had to lead services AND give the d'var because whoever (I'll kindly pretend I don't know who it is) is in charge of scheduling these things is kind of incompetent. Also, I'm kind of famous now, because I was on the front page of The Lantern today, in a shmaltzy article called "interfaith couples share belief in love." It started with the classic lead-in "Despite being a gentile". . .
I've been enjoying watching winter olympics. I hope Sasha Cohen beats the shit out of everyone in women's figure skating. That girl is hot AND feisty.
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[13 Feb 2006|09:45pm] |
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1) pairs ice skating on tv tonight!
2) do this, please: http://kevan.org/johari?name=mereimage i want to see how it turns out
3) currently enjoying pillow mints and the music of jenny lewis
4) valentine's plans: milkshakes and a movie
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[08 Feb 2006|08:41pm] |
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a) looking to do something charitable? we here at VOX: voices for planned parenthood encourage you to make a contribution to ppco in the name of our very own george w, in honor of president's day. just visit https://secure.ga3.org/02/pp1000
b) my brother and father are working on the coolest playlist ever. the hypothesis is that songs that include some sort of 'de do do do' refrain are wonderful mood-improvers. good examples include the 59th street bridge song, and suite judy blue eyes, and semi-charmed life. got suggestions? the exact syllable is flexible, but la la's are right out.
c) i got my valentine's day package from my step-grandma, connie. lots and lots of food. if you want any trail mix bars, or fruit snacks, or macadamia nuts, i have a plethora of them that i can't eat all by myself.
d) for english class, i'm reading a cookbook. the alice b. toklas cookbook, to be precise, which includes a recipe for alice b. toklas hash brownies (but i haven't gotten to that part yet). crazy expatriate lesbians.
e) if you happen to walk by the side of mendenhall in the next few days, you might get to see the contents of our geology experiment on the processes of fossilization. nicely arrayed, there on the grass, are: a half a banana, two radishes, two shrimp, a clam, a piece of raw fish, and two mushrooms. we have to observe what happens to them (outside, and also in oxygenated and anoxic freshwater and marine water, and open air indoors).
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[11 Dec 2005|11:35pm] |
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thanks, amy walls. you're a champ!
"Someone on my friends list suggested to others on his friends list to post the first sentence of every month in 2005 for a Livejournal Year in Review. Whee!"
okay, so i did the above for the past year, and it turned out REALLY BORING. so i decided to do it for the year before instead. now it's, like, retro. or at least minorly, small-scale nostalgic. voila!
January, 2004:
You know it's a sucessful party when you don't wake up til 1:30 pm.
February:
today at hebrew high (held early so we don't have to miss the all important jewish observance of the super bowl), we learned about jewish mysticism.
March:
"all words other than 'i love you' are clerical, dispensable, replaceable, my dear"
April:
i spent the weekend at HUC, discussing leadership and gender roles.
May:
i don't think i've mentioned here-- i'm going to ohio state this september!
June:
camp is going pretty well, though it feels like it's been so much more than three days.
July:
hiking, skinny dipping, cave-exploring, roasting marshmallows, sleeping in a tent, wading in a creek... what more can you ask of a weekend?
August:
1a) If you need an absentee ballot application or want to register to vote, just ask, cuz I have the forms.
September:
Another fabulous short trip, this time to Olympia, Washington, with my mother.
October:
I. I love how Into the Woods is always, always relevant.
November:
beautiful sadist,
i want to curl up in your outstretched smile
but you shove those pale hands
deeper into empty pockets
December:
backstage is love
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[04 Nov 2005|11:16pm] |
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I've been meaning to update for a while now, but not because I have anything terribly pressing to say. Halloween was fun-- Adam and I went to a few parties as "the couple who gets to the party late because we were having sex." disheveled clothes, wrongly buttoned, half-tucked shirts, lipstick smears, one earring, hair all over. best response-- "but if you were having sex, why'd you even come to the party." to which adam glibly replied "well, we finished. i mean, at least i finished. . .did you finish, hun?"
at which point i think i shoved him.
tonight i'm wearing my gaucho pants. i'm upstairs in adam's house, listening to morgan make drunken noises at his cats. downstairs, bryan is hosting a "zaireeka listening party" which consists of playing four separate cd's simultaneously. they're meant to be played that way, apparently. we had a cute triple date earlier in the evening, with jake & jenna and beth & bobby. i was sorry to break up the alliteration.
dinner was mongolian bbq, and dessert was ben & jerry's. a little girl in the ice cream shop was wearing red cowboy boots, and was standing in front of the counter smearing a chocolate ice cream cone all over her face. when she walked away, there was a dark smear on the counter.
my roommate and i rarely sleep in the same bedroom anymore.
my boss reminds me of a muppet. i won't say which one.
my creative nonfiction professor is one of the most irreverent, insightful people i've come across. both the grad students are cuter than they should be allowed to be. the younger one, jon, laughs when i make faces when other people are talking, and asks me to explain why i disagree. the older one, joe, who's a rock star, writes long comments on my pieces, which i really like (my favorites are the "so good" and the "damn." ones). i actually admire many of the writers in the class. someone had this i-wish-i-wrote it line in his piece: "the air is too clean for jealousy." i like envying my classmates' writing. mostly.
tomorrow is my third ohio state football game. we're playing illinois. it might be a movie night, tomorrow, as well.
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You're Mark Cohen, an amateur filmmaker looking for
inspiration. You observe from afar, sometimes
detatched from what's going on around you.
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Well, of course I'm Mark Cohen. I should've thought of that myself.
So I'm doing the whole Yom Kippur fast thing, which is going fairly well. Something like five hours to go, though. I am pretty hungry. I've got a lot of stuff to do for Spanish class. I'm not sure how I feel about creative nonfiction class: I think the professor is incredible, and the grad student TA types are neat, but i'm not at all excited to read everyone's pieces, mainly because i'm a terrible literary snob. okay, I guess I do know how I feel about the class.
I haven't written anything here for a while. Life is full, but generally really good. I've had a couple significant new experiences recently, which I guess makes sense at the beginning of a year of college. (those experiences have been enumerated, some of them, in the creative nonfiction piece which my esteemed classmates will be critiquing/dissecting. workshop, yikes.)
My birthday is next Wednesday. How should I celebrate? I'm thinking dinner at the Taj II, and cake, but that's as far as I've gotten. I really like birthdays, but I'm kinda freaked out about the whole turning-twenty thing. It sounds old.
I think I'm going to go clip my fingernails.
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mereimage took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test! "Needs a change in her circumstances or in her rela..."
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that's all i've got for now. too early in the morning for an actual update. too early in the morning for bloody anything.
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( borrowed from Lois )
so, i'm back at school and September's almost over already, which means it's less than a month til i turn twenty. yikes. in the meantime, there are plenty of classes to keep me busy-- so far so good, especially creative writing with the marvelous stephen kuusisto.
the room is spacious and quiet-- we've got a couch, and i have a bedside table, and there is SPACE for everything. i'm moody but glad to be here. seeing everyone again has been lovely, and being in the same city as adam is oh-so-nice. how exciting to have a real, honest-to-goodness nice guy as my boyfriend, who can actually come over now if i call. and bhakti is, as usual, an excellent roommate, although i did have a dream the other night in which we had a huge falling-out, and she accused me of being a horrible person.
then again, i also dreamed i'd missed my first sociology class, and that paul was in love with me, and neither of those scenarios have come to fruition. such tumultuous dreams, though. . .
tonight= shabbat at hillel! i have an hour and a half til we leave, which means christy and i should probably start making wardrobe choices right about now.
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Yeah, allright.
1. Go here.
2. Pass it on.
( my answers )
Maybe this lull before I go back to school is a good thing, making me look forward to having a full schedule again. I'm worried about being too busy, but excited at the potential for actual involvement in various activities, maybe even-- *gasp*-- activities i care about. I'm worried that I'll get sick of Hillel, what with the internship and the potential stage managing for Hillel Players, plus of course the weekly Shabbat services and dinners. Oh, and I'm also worried about turning into one of those anti-social sophomores, like the ones who lived next door last year and never seemed to talk to anyone on the floor.
But in general, I'm feeling quite ready to go back. It should be a good schedule this fall, and it'll be nice to be in the near vicinity with so many of the people I'm so fond of. I've already started packing a bit (mostly just books at this point), and like the feeling of getting organized. Am I really this mundane? Underneath my attempts at poetic lifestyle, I really do enjoy order-- neatly arranged shelves, color-coordinated binders, less clutter-- even if my room rarely reflects that. I'm such an imposter.
This weekend: down to Lousville, for a visit with The Family-- an opportunity to see The Boy in his Natural Habitat. We'll see how that goes. I'm looking forward to it, a bit nervous about making a bad impression, making some huge or at least glaring faux pas.
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Yeah, so I think the boredom is finally sneaking up on me. This summer is just going to go on and on, isn't it? Hmmmmm... must find more books.
In other news, I'm officially smitten (not that I wasn't before, but this just confirms it). I actually started jumping up and down, on the frisbee field (after we had lost miserably, no less) once I heard the voicemail message that I get to see the boy tomorrow. Oh, I'm such a girl. Oh, and I don't mind. Oh, I'm getting entirely too well-aquainted with that particular stretch of I-71-- you know, the reallllly dull one between Cincinnati and Columbus? Yeah, that.
Also, I haven't gotten tired of Illinois yet (the cd, not the state).
Also, if anyone has suggestions for must-reads for me, I'm open to them. I would welcome them, in fact.
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[10 Jul 2005|10:09pm] |
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Anything I can say about summer would sound gloat-y, thus the several months of not writing. Basically, I'm a big fan of this season in general, and this particular summer especially.
At the moment, I'm happy about:
--brunch at Yellow Springs. . .oh how I love this uber-charming little town. And delicious buttermilk pancakes. And window shopping with my mother. And the Clifton Gorge.
--current books-- Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth, and The Best American Short Stories of the Century.
--Sufjan Stevens, Picaresque, and lots of Bright Eyes.
--latest cookie making venture, and prospect of more experimental baking/ poetic chatter with the brilliant Lois.
--Tuesday frisbee games with Kate. Hurrah frisbee, hurrah Kate.
--Katherine and my To-Do list.
--Women Writing for (a) Change, which always sends me out feeling inspired
--yes, the boy. Who makes me smile at least every evening, if not moreso, and leaves sweet messages, and who I could gush about for a while but shouldn't. Saying he's gush-worthy is sufficient, yes?
All that said, there is a lot of space in this summer for me, probably your size, if you'd like to help me fill the idle afternoons and mellow evenings.
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Last night was odd, in a rather mundane way. Lois and Kyle and I watched the Interpreter (so good), and then I came back to my dark, empty study room feeling wired after the movie. Naturally, I began reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, just in case the scary-ish film and deserted room weren't enough to keep me from sleeping.
Next week will be incredible. Robert Redford, Jon Stewart, AND the Decemberists all in one week. And if anyone wants to see the Decemberists with me, that would be awesome-- they're coming Saturday, May 7.
I have these tentative moments of thinking I really am self-reliant, but they're hard to hold onto.
On the other hand, I DID write a sestina on Monday, so that's something.
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[23 Apr 2005|06:37pm] |
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Snow in April is just cruel.
For my last pre-passover meal, I whipped up a Simply Asia roasted peanut noodle bowl. Two hours til seder at Hillel.
This week was utterly excellent, and so of course had to conclude dramatically, with my car accident today. Everyone's fine, except my dear Fiona, who is scratched and missing a hubcap, which came off in pieces on the wet side street.
This week I: played frisbee on south oval at night, played scrabble at 1 am with kyle, went to don pablo's with the cooler elements of the ninth floor, workshopped my cinderella-retellings poem to mostly positive reviews, finished the human comedy, listened almost exclusively to the decemberists. any band who uses words like 'odalisque' and 'picaresque' and 'soiled teenage girlfriend' has gotta be on to something.
Christy and I had some good times this week too, what with the skipping/singing beatles songs back from floor dinner, and the bonding with the NJB at services last night.
"Look, he bought us a book!"
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loves of the week:
-'the general' by dispatch, the lyrics of which i hadn't paid attention to before
-dark chocolate peanut m&m's, now available in star wars colors
-the first sentence of 'love in the time of cholera'
severe likes of the week:
-south oval on sunny afternoons
-william saroyan's 'the human comedy'
-CSNY
frustrations of the week:
-FUCKING WINBOOK RUINING MY COMPUTER
-see above
-specifically: without warning me that the laptop problem was anything other than the keypad freezing, they deleted my whole damn hard drive. everything i've written this year, conversations i saved, music i collected, every program including microsoft word. plus, for good measure, my 'm' key cover, which i don't know how to put back on. (any idea how to transfer songs to an ipod from a new itunes library, without deleting all current songs, anyone?)
nevertheless, it's been a most lovely week. between marvelous weather, cake baking, lengthy conversation with katherine, late nights with the boy, successful fairy tale discussion leading, and and and. just delicious.
is it kosher to actually have what i've so long wanted? to be in college with a hand to hold, in the spring-- this is what we talked about, that summer in kenyon. this is what we asked for.
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