September 2008
14 posts
I absolutely love Barack Obama. And watching the debate only reiterates this.
I’m still watching the debate, so I’m not going to comment about things said yet.
But it reminds me, I witnessed the cutest thing yesterday. I was in line at a Duane Reade in NYC, and there was a cute elderly lady in line in front of me and after she paid she told the cashier, “Don’t forget...
Last night, I went to an Oxford Freshers Party in NYC. I was a little iffy about going and how much fun I’d have and whether it’d be worth the train ride back and forth and all that.
But it was fun. And it was nice actually meeting REAL people going to Oxford. It’s all just kind of been websites and facebook groups and postcard pictures, but it feels a lot more real now. The...
Op-Ed Columnist - The King Is Dead - Editorial -... →
I’m back home, in New Jersey.
I’d forgotten how you can hear the silence here. I’d forgotten how I can go days without seeing people on the street.
We got stuck in traffic on the way to dinner yesterday, and I was suddenly struck by some form of culture shock. I realized how different India and the United States - or at least the India I know and the ww-p area are. Here,...
“I kept telling my campers to question everything but the dignity and worth of others in my Jesus-lite, good-living “bible” study discussions this summer. I wonder if any of them remembered.”
- Anna
Anna and I were huge influences on each other senior year, seeing as we spent most of our time together in windowless room 109 making the newspaper together, blasting...
Here, where I know few people and spend most of my time with my mom and grandparents, I am wondering about my own brand of homesickness, loneliness.
Listening to The Beatles for comfort. Wishing I had Sylvia Plath or Franny and Zooey with me. Knowing it wouldn’t do much good. When I return home, home will no longer really exist. All my friends have already left for college. I have more than...
“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (via finallyseeing: stare-at-walls: srsly) (via into)
“He was always in his room writing those things, and never with people. I used to...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated.
“You don’t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas...”
– Bob Dylan (via yesyes) (via smut-to-go) (via scout)
What McCain Didn't Know About Sarah Palin →
I’m trying to read up on Palin, I know little to nothing about her. It’s going to be an interesting election. And I’m loving Obama-Biden more and more.