Archives for March 2007:

Mar 26, 2007 12:51 am | 2 comments

I am an escapist (spoiler alert)

Saw The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) the other day. Not everyone liked it as much as the academy did, it seems:
Hollywood makes this kind off movie, too, only instead of Art, we have Heart. Our Good Stasi and playwright rolled into one is a boxer named Rocky, a private named Ryan, a [...]

Mar 16, 2007 8:11 pm | 1 comment

Haikus improve my communication skills

good morning roommate
are those bruises on your eyes?
oh, a problem set.
hi laundry room girl
ha! isn’t the weather great?
k, see you later.
who left these dishes?
what, a speck of nacho cheese?
bad sterile technique.
mild flurries today
and unmild slurries in my boots
Stanford, I should have.
a haiku without
question marks, so it is not
poetry at all.
a haiku by me
is not only [...]

Mar 13, 2007 12:00 am | no comments

What I learned about overcommitments this month

Ladies and gentlemen, behold the inevitable:
You can feel it coming, the scratchy sore throat, muscle aches, maybe a dry cough, headache, or lethargy. You’re not going to give in to it. Denial. “I am not sick!” Except [...]