a brown bird sat on my windowsill this morning and I thought I saw a banana slug on my walk home tonite. but… it was a stick. however the puddles are real, and it’s been raining like 1998 here. never has the bicycling been so epic, or my pants so wet. my new little room […]
how do you spell that?
had a wonderful blip of a breakquelled the rumblesslipped away for an afternoon and a daywatched the sun slice through treescasting a barcode upon my pathwhy can’t I sleep outside every night? put on some extra layersturned a hundred pagestwo, three!making time for essentials likelistening to crickets and writing papers. baked intermezzo-style bread (9 loaves)gaining […]
implications
reports of incredible variation possible within “happiness” This semester has been all-encompassing. Studio is incredibly demanding and time-consuming. Escaping from it is an impossible thought! It is so hard to get out of the mindset, and things like letters and postcards are only a dream. dreaming of next weekend, dreaming of cake. decisions, results, possibility. […]
sitting here
reading the new season’s knitty magazine, a much anticipated pleasure. listening to “Time of No Reply” now the heat has died down. reading the New York Times for as long as I like. listening to the hum, rattle, and shake of studio a short reprieve given that I am somewhat sick, stressed, bug-bitten, and so […]
ready to eat
made soup again (unintentionally) for dinner this week, and I think it was my favourite yet. tomatoes coconut milk parsley (add early) chinese 5 spice thyme s&p celery onion garlic Nearly finished with a small case using the most complicated knitting stitch ever. It is called woven basket stitch. You knit into the back of […]
seen as
One of the highlights of my summer was meeting up with Sasha for an evening in London. It’s too bad these goofy pictures are from a month and a half ago! Back in the Bay and nearly settled in for the semester. I’m taking studio this fall, which means I’ve already had two reviews and two […]
Picture Postcard
An evening walk through Clare College last week after the nightly three-course dinner at Gonville and Caius… What a day! There were at least three major thunderstorms. I also had the joy of lying cosily in bed between plenaries, listening to the peals of thunder. In an hour, there were at least 10 sets of […]
culture?
I think I could spend the rest of my life in the University Library and still not know much of anything. That would be very nice. Currently writing you from the tea room, halfway through my first busy week in Cambridge. I am having a wonderful time! Since I shall be here for a relatively long […]
maybes
itinerary: Kinvara, Galway Lisbon Dublin Cambridge London see you soon!!
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