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01:24 pm
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2007
1. hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world, murakami *
2. the walking tour, davis *
3. my antonia, cather
4. ficcones, borges
5. lolita, nabokov *
6. neuromancer, gibson
7. oryx and crake, atwood
8. merchant of venice *
9. a farewell to arms, hemingway
10. 1 henry iv
11. the hedgehog, the fox, and the magister's pox, gould
12. operation wandering soul, powers
13. a midsummer night's dream *
14. the robber bridegroom, welty *
15. the double helix, watson (why did we all hate this in high school?)
16. the hunting of the snark, carroll
17. mao ii, delillo
18. pale horse, pale rider, porter *
19. flatland, abbot
20. hamlet
21. lanark, gray ***
22. the world is round, stein
23. twelfth night
24. wuthering heights, bronte
25. the good soldier, ford *
26. ragtime, doctorow
27. disgrace, coetzee *
28. poor things, gray
29. i, claudius, graves
30. the road to wigan pier, orwell
31. king lear
32. the secret history, tartt
33. the ambassadors, james (terrible reading experience)
34. coriolanus
35. the winter's tale *
36. remains of the day, ishiguro
37. am kürzeren ende der sonnenallee, brüssig
38. against the day, pynchon *
39. mrs. dalloway, woolf
40. popco, thomas
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12:46 am
[Link] | Television is the most lifelike medium. I think I could write a book arguing that.
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01:30 am
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How incredible is Jessica Biel's figure? I've never been much for behinds, J.Lo's appeal was largely lost on me, but now I know that butts can truly be beautiful.
Recently, I have made some pretty specific plans concerning my future, clearly delineated hopes and dreams. When I'm Grown Up, my life will include babies, books and bookshelves, kittens and cats, and a rice-cooker. It will exclude a large yard and the accompanying yardwork, a large house and the accompanying housework, an especially large television, a pet bird, and an SUV. These good things seem within my grasp.
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05:03 am
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summer reading
1. things fall apart, chinua achebe
2. the tin drum, gunter grass
3. song of solomon, tony morrison (+)
4. dead as a doornail, charlaine harris
5. the new york trilogy, paul auster (+)
6. the famished road, ben okri
7. couples, john updike (+)
8. the house of the spirits, isabel allende
9. portnoy's complaint, phillip roth (+)
10. the power and the glory, graham greene
11. beloved, toni morrison (+)
12. go tell it on the mountain, james baldwin (+)
13. slaughterhouse five, kurt vonnegut (+)
14. the namesake, jhumpa lahiri
15. sophie's choice, william styron
16. cosmopolis, don delillo
17. the unbearable lightness of being, milan kundera (+)
18. the ponder heart, eudora welty
19. the prisoner's dilemma, richard powers
20. the baron in the trees, italo calvino
21. the color purple, alice walker
22. native speaker, chang-rae lee
23. as i lay dying, william faulkner (+)
24. the year of magical thinking, joan didion (+)
25. the sun also rises, ernest hemingway
26. sula, toni morrison (disturbing)
27. fifth chinese daughter, jade snow wong (-)
28. play it as it lays, joan didion (+)
29. china men, maxine hong kingston
30. donald duk, frank chin
31. sense and sensibility, jane austen (+)
32. playboy of the western world, synge (+)
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11:53 am
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handclap-a-la-la
summer listening 06 (.zip):
1 don't worry baby - beach boys
2 this old heart of mine (is weak for you) - isley brothers
3 chapter in your life entitled san fransisco - lucksmiths
4 sick of myself - matthew sweet
5 left of the dial - replacements
6 soothe me - sam cooke
7 harmour love - syreeta
8 this must be the place (naive melody) - talking heads
9 ain't that enough - teenage fanclub
loving:
1 toni morrison
2 weeds (mary louise parker and elizabeth perkins have the same nose!)
3 summer sun
4 flavor ice
hating:
1 kids who scream
2 kids who vomit
3 kids who cry for no reason
4 kids who bring chisels to summer camp
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01:50 am
[Link] | i just dreamt that, as a result of global warming, the monsoons of eastern asia had shifted over the east coast of north america.
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07:11 pm
[Link] | yesterday i went shopping in an ex-bomb shelter that my dad helped to dig! things are dusty and crowded in china, but everybody stays up all night to watch world cup and you can buy baby tomatoes on the street so it's a-ok.
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03:59 pm
[Link] | this is what i have done so far today:
1. took a shower
2. watched the "stars are blind" (paris hilton single) music video four times
3. ate half a pumpkin pie and a lot of whipped cream
i've bought about 3423 books on the internet this last week. none of them have yet arrived (thanks to FREE! Super Saver Shipping and billing address mix-ups), but i am pretty stoked. this summer, i want to read a lot of shorter, more contemporary novels, review my grecoroman/norse mythology, not get fat, and generally keep busy. i'm doing a good job so far, right?
Current Mood:  productive
Current Music: magnetic fields
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07:39 pm
[Link] | Today I realized why history papers are so much easier to write than english papers: each MLA-style parenthetical citation takes up only a bit of lateral space, wheras every UChicago-style footnote takes up a whole line.
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07:58 pm
[Link] | Just rip out my heart and shit on it, why don't you? Thanks, Amy Sherman-Palladino. Thanks a lot.
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10:56 pm
[Link] | Last weekend I drove up to Chicago with Pinyan, Danny, and Brantley in pursuit of Quiz Bowl glory (/beatdown). The hotel was shady, the University of Chicago was terrifying, and the trip was nice. On the drive back, I was pulled over for going 81 in a 65, but ended up just getting a warning from a softy cop who only looked like Michael Chiklis. Besides losing my copy of Giovanni's Room, it was a good experience.
If you happen to be awake and not in class this Friday at 10 AM (11 AM Eastern!), you should listen to my first ever radio show at kwur.com! It probably won't be a disaster. I'll probably remember to go. Somebody will probably listen. Probability was never my forte.
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04:03 pm
[Link] | I'll be home Oct 20-22. Anybody else?
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12:08 am
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dreamboats
Current Mood: 100% in love
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12:09 am
[Link] | Alex Chilton is missing and my face is all red but I'm pretty upset about this.
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09:08 pm
[Link] | It's hard to keep track of time in the summer. Several things led me to this conclusion. For example, Britney Spears's pregnancy is interminable, neverending. I feel like she is intentionally prolonging it in order to frustrate me.
I emailed the Facebook to suggest that they add a "Favorite Television" field. People, in general, care way more about television than they do, for example, about books.
My daytrip to the Baltimore Aquarium was probably not worth the time nor the money spent, but it was something I had to do. The octopus was probably the best part. How do you become a dolphin trainer?
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11:28 pm
[Link] | Did you have to pay to get your AP scores to your college? I thought that they sent at least one transcript free. Too bad Wash U hasn't gotten my AP scores, and apparently I have to pay $15 for an official College Board transcript.
After spending the entire year implying that I was a spoiled brat for wanting to go to a private school, Mr. Kosatka basically accused me of being a cheap bastard for complaining about the transcript fee. "Fifteen dollars is a drop in the bucket when it gets you into a school where you have a full ride."
If by "full ride" he means "5% ride". 1/20 full, 19/20 empty. What's the difference? I think he has me mixed up with Tina Chen.
I know that I'm just in a bad mood because I only slept two hours last name (blame "Freaks and Geeks"), but I am also really angry at my new laptop. At first I was like, "Ooh! It's pretty!" because it's a fucking mac. But now all I want to do is move my files around and rename them and be able to sort my buddy list on my own time according to each buddy's degree of presence (from top to bottom: present non-idle, present idle, cell phone user, away non-idle, away idle), and this computer is making me cry. And really, I should just go to sleep but I don't really want to go to bed in such a bad mood.
Despair is the primary impetus for decision making in the Kshen household, and these are my current impulses:
1. Return this (godforsaken sleek classy heartless) computer and get something that is cheap and a PC.
2. Mention the four inch moth that is making audible thuds as it flails against our kitchen window.
3. Stay awake until either contentment is achieved, or, more likely, until I straight up pass out.
4. Be angry! SO ANGRY. AT NOTHING. FOR NO REASON. GODDAMMIT. Devoting my youthful energies to misplaced emotions is clearly the best thing I can do at this point.
5. Amend and amend this entry beyond the (oh so narrow) bounds of reason.
6. Also mention that I actually had a really good day today, in case you were wondering.
Finally:
EMILY ARE YOU STILL GOING TO ELVIS COSTELLO WITH ME EVEN THOUGH IT IS SUNDAY?
Current Mood:  frustrated
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09:17 am
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elvis costello & emmylou harris
I have an extra lawn ticket for this show on Friday Sunday, and I am hoping somebody wants to go with me! I can arrange for it to be either free or very cheap. Please express interest if you have any.
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12:44 pm
[Link] | Spent most of yesterday at the Musee d'Orsay, which I think is my new favorite museum. It used to be a train station and is very beautiful. Also, we went to see the Bastille Day fireworks at the Eiffel Tower. It was very classy and fun.
We are taking the chunnel train to London today. Andrew's sister Maureen is doing some Yale in London program, and I think we will be hanging out with her this week. Her (gay) friends have invited us (gay) clubbing, but none of the boys want to go. I think that it would be fun, and hopefully I can go anyway. At worst, it would be a good story.
My entire European vacation can be summed up in Jonathan Richman songs (Vincent Van Gogh, That Summer Feeling, Pablo Picasso, Give Paris One More Chance, Dancing in the Lesbian Bar etc).
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04:49 pm
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paris
+ Pretty
+ Cheqp food
+ Good zeqther
- Different keyboqrd
- Expensive internet
- Stqircqses ,ell like urine
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06:17 pm
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roken is doderijk!
1. Our first day in Amsterdam:
a) They lost my luggage
b) I got lost
c) It rained
d) We realized that our hostel was really just a boat
e) I wanted to go home*
2. I think the shower that I took yesterday was both the coldest shower I have ever taken and the only shower I will be taking in Amsterdam this year.
3. Because we have been sleeping on a boat, I feel like the world is rocking back and forth whenever I sit still. Like right now.
4. Did you know the average male height in the Netherlands is six foot two?
5. We took a bike tour around Amsterdam and the Dutch countryside today (which is only twenty minutes away), and it was very very fun. We had a really cute New Zealand-ish tour guide named Lucy, and took pictures in front of a windmill. We also visited a cheesemaker, but their electricity was out, so it just smelled bad.
6. I love this city. The canals and the bikes and dikes and dykes. It's much to my liking.
7. Walking around the museums I kept thinking "Well have you heard about the painter Vincent Van Gogh? Who loved color and who let it sho-ow? And in the museums, what have we here? The most soulful painter since Johann Vermeer..." etc etc. If you are 18 and under, the Rijksmuseum is free. I was celebrating this fact when a silver clown streetperformer made fun of me. Apparently, being made fun of by a streetperformer puts you at the bottom rung of society.
8. Today I kept singing the song about Washington DC by the Magnetic Fields.
9. Have you ever heard of the banana show? It sounds very awkward. The Red Light District is just kind of odd, not at all arousing
10. In case you were worried, we left London a day before the bombings. We're all okay.
11. We saw a street fight! In Amsterdam! Yesterday! They aren't big on weaponry here, so they were fighting with poles, I think. Steely sticks, not Lek Walesa.
12. I saw the Rabbit! Framed and lit up, like a museum artifact. In case you did not know, the Rabbit is a pink Japanese vibrator that causes Charlotte to become addicted to masturbation in Sex and the City.
13. Somebody offered me space cake, and I asked if it was that vacuum packed stuff they sell at the Air and Space Museum. It's not.
<3 Kaaflijn
* I don't want to go home anymore.
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