January 2010
34 posts
“We always knew there was no Orpheus in Ireland.
No music stored at the doors of...”
– Eaavan Boland
“Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the...”
– William Thorsby Bridges
December 2009
27 posts
“Tear down the house
That I grew up in
I’ll never be the same again
Take...”
– “Tear Down the House,” The Avett Brothers.
“How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder
that a whole city—arches, pillars,...”
– “Atlantis - A Lost Sonnet” by Eavan Boland
“And the piano, it sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer...”
– “Piano Man,” Billy Joel
“You find your way through a place by getting lost in it.”
– Anthony Doerr, Four Seasons in Rome, Scribner: New York, 2007. 87.
For some weird reason, I want to watch Disney’s Hercules. Why is that?
And another part of me just wants to lay in bed for two days and read my lovely books.
My roommates have offered me cough syrup cause they can hear me in their rooms when I go through a coughing fit. Gross.
It is suppose to snow tomorrow. I want to pull on my boots and walk and walk and walk through it. Slush about it...
Harbucks.
I am sipping on a very hot Starbucks coffee while sitting at gate B10 in Chicago. I have three + hours to kill before I get on my flight to Boston. I broke down and paid a few bucks for the O’Hare wireless internet access because I just had a feeling that this was going to be a very long morning otherwise. I’m not sure if it was worth it yet, but I am hopeful that something awesome may...