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 [...]
Posted in personal | 2 Comments »>You know how some family traditions don’t even really look like family traditions until you get some distance from them? If it’s just what everyone does, you don’t even notice. I’ve said before that I never really felt Italian until I left New Jersey; after leaving the East Coast entirely, I’ve felt more [...]
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Posted in personal | 2 Comments »>The scene: it’s Thanksgiving, I’m in New Jersey with my family, and it’s exactly what I wanted the day to be. Including all the strange interludes.
Mid-afternoon, we’re still a couple of hours away from turkey, but the appetizer courses are in full swing. The uncles are watching television in the living room, and [...]
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Posted in personal | 2 Comments »>I’ve been feeling a little mopey the last week or so. At first I thought it was just garden-variety mid-semester tired, and then I thought it had to do with fighting off another cold. (There seem to be a few different types of sick going around in the department–all up and down the [...]
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Posted in personal | 2 Comments »>My baby cousin graduated from college last week. (No, she’s not a child prodigy, nor is she actually the youngest of my cousins, and she’s well past the age where I should still call her my baby cousin. But when she was two and I was ten, we were like -best friends-. [...]
Posted in personal | 5 Comments »>That was some unexpected radio silence, sorry about that. Will try to do better in the future.
As it turns out, I’m not the only one who’s been busy, though. First Alan and Starr snuck off to get married (an event I couldn’t stop talking about for a day or two, since it made [...]
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