It was such a big day full of so many big things, so I’ll just share three pictures: My friend Caroline Kessler giving her stunning graduation speech–entreating us all to defy easy explainations: My friend Izzy and I in line–as fellow 5th years, we’ve kept each other company this semester but we first met when […]
Continue reading →I’m graduating today! By the time you read this, I’ll have my diploma in hand. I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop–some library fine or homework assigned I didn’t turn in and a sad look from the Dean when he tells me I can’t graduate. So far, so good. No sad looks, no […]
Continue reading →I’m reposting this from a good and wise friend’s blog; it’s a guest post from a wicked smart and kind friend of ours. It’s graduation tomorrow and I’ll be posting all kinds of euphoric and bubbly stuff in the morning. But this matters. Trigger warning for: sexual assault. A dear lady-friend of mine has been feeling […]
Continue reading →Today was my last day escorting for Planned Parenthood of Western PA. This week’s been a lot of “lasts”: my last final for college (“Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict: 1880 – 1948″), last grading (“How to Get a Job”), last time walking into the College of Fine Arts, dropping a form off at the Dean’s […]
Continue reading →I like words. I find them friendly, comforting. They are the first place I turn to when I need to think a problem through and whether alone on a page or performed by actors, they give me a sense of the world as it is and as it could be. I collect them. I’ve posted […]
Continue reading →I’m spending the weekend in Seattle, visiting with Matthew and searching for an apartment. I don’t even know how I found housing without Padmapper–it is a life-saver. Seattle will be home base, which means its where my heart and books are, while I’ll be flitting around Boston. Though my brain is travel-blocked, I’ve found 3 […]
Continue reading →I recently had lunch at my Arabic professor’s house, and spent most of the time playing with his cats. As a student, neither the rental contracts in my budget nor my moving schedule nor, tragically, my lifestyle permit me to have pets. I do have two succulents, which hate the Pittsburgh cold with nearly the […]
Continue reading →As part of my exploration of the world of rocks in Pittsburgh, I spent some time climbing all over the creek alongside my daily bike-commute route which goes through a golf course. I found these tiny waterfalls: It was a beautiful day out, and there were a bunch of people golfing. Though this may change as […]
Continue reading →I read a great deal of fanfiction last week. I had most of last week off for Carnival and finished my 5th year project: To celebrate finishing this anthology, which I have stressed about for longer than possibly anything but getting into college, I spent a few days diving into a fandom I haven’t spent much […]
Continue reading →Today I was honored to join two other women in the Humanities Scholars Program of Carnegie Mellon University to thank the Pittsburgh City Council for passing a proclamation honoring Bill Dietrich, whose $265 million donation to Carnegie Mellon could profoundly change the future of the university. CMU has grown so much in the past 30 years–from […]
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