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strawberry creek.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

When I started graduate school at Berkeley, I’d actually never visited the campus, at least not that I can remember. (My parents think we may have driven through it on a vacation trip to California when I was seven or eight years old, but I don’t remember.) I arrived in California in August 2000, and [...]

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boxes inside boxes.

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

My favorite part of moving is going through all of the boxes I have stashed in closets and under desks. I have distinct packrat tendencies, and I’ve been facing difficult (but interesting) decisions in the last week or two, as I un-pack and re-pack these storage boxes. A stack of cards that my best friend [...]

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the end of days.

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

What were you doing five years ago? Five years ago this summer, I had just finished my qualifying exams, and was starting the first stage of my dissertation research. At the beginning of the summer, I drove out to Boston, and spent the summer at archives up and down the east coast. A lot of [...]

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