in the mood to burn bridges



Saturday, November 19, 2005

I have just wasted another Saturday night.



Monday, October 17, 2005

I miss you.

Goodnight.



Monday, September 05, 2005

Well, I know I'm back in the States, as it were, when I have the luxury of spending hours and hours online. Which means I've already run into someone who doesn't know me who I know via someone else.

This album's a little better the second time around, but, gosh. Takes a while to get used to the pro-duction.

I think I may still be living in another space-time.



Monday, August 29, 2005

I'm in Colombo, on my way back to Chennai, which means I fly to New York in two days, which means I move into my new places in 6 days, which means I start classes in 10 days. Which means, which means, which means...

I'm leaving. Sigh.

The people in the duty free here must think I'm a lush. 2 bottles of Australian red wine, an 8-pack of Guinness, a litre of Red Label, a litre of Bailey's.



Monday, July 25, 2005

Hm, hm. what to blog?

Full of mucus, I am, for the third time this year. In nearly half-an-hour, I will have a fridge for my remaining four weeks here. A fridge for my liquor? Perhaps the occasional packet of milk. We just returned from conversing with women our age at a local NGO. I demonstrated my marvelously inadequate command of the language. The sweet girls, they giggled and praised us nonetheless.

I need to go home and get that fridge, do some homework, eat, do some more homework, go to sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.



Sunday, May 29, 2005

I'm back. And now, with five days to go until I make my home on another (sub-)continent for the summer... I suddenly feel very lonely.

Perhaps now is the time to distract myself from myself by reminding -- who else? -- myself what I need to do:

+ FINISH writing, goddammit
+ box up remaining books, etc
+ finish packing suitcases
+ install software on the other laptop, transfer files, etc.
+ get rid of old coffeemaker & stereo (take to the drop-off at the cleaners?)
+ buy a pretty-yet-simple salwar kameez, anything made with light cotton
+ visit housing office re: paperwork
+ changes of address
+ deposit stipend cheques
+ get Verizon to put my account on hold / look into phones in India?
+ return library books to Butler/ILL, Lehman, Barnard
+ buy gifts for various kin (esp. the under-10 set!)

etc.



Wednesday, May 25, 2005

My eyes hurt. Or, rather, just the balls. Just the vessels, maybe. Yes, the vessels. They are swollen, swollen and red.

And my throat. It, too, is swollen and red.

I am still writing, yes, but I'm going to get some sweet rest on an island that sounds like it should be owned by a couple of trashy American heiresses.

Said rest will entail sun, surf, and getting a margarita made in my throat. (Tequila might just cure this damned retrovirus.)

WOO! SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!