Just try and tell me that's not a great tree! It is a great tree... Photographed on Henley-upon-Thames this spring. Good night baba and alex. I am living in a time zone that is incongruent with my geographic location at the moment, which is kindof annoying, but it offers the treat of being awake in the quietest and most peaceful hours which are usually lost to sleep! (minus the really drunk British teenagers stumbling loudly through the streets... besides that, yeah, it's really poetic and all :) pouf

Some days, I feel a real kinship with Mimi here...

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Hello!


Baba, wonderful job on the inaugural post: insightful, personal, and entertaining (I am listening to Sky Blue Sky now, it's lovely). It came at a great time, too. Yesterday, I was just sitting around, and not doing too much, (like this)


Until, late in the evening, I went online and read your post, and it just made my day.
It also inspired me to get going on this wonderful fraternal blogging project.
As the Chinese philosopher Laozi said: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - and you know those Chinese philosophers, they're never wrong. And so, as a result of your post, the performance anxiety I was weirdly experiencing about making a super witty/fascinating/mind-blowing first entry is gone! Phew.

What a nice space this is. In the course of a day, I so often come across fascinating internet tid-bits, with not that many people to share them with! (I send them to Nick, but he already has a ridiculous back-log of 'check this out' emails to go through... plus, he has a sneaking suspicion that all this internet trawling takes lots of time, and that I don't work as much as I could as a result. Soooooooooooo crazy, I know. He totally makes me lolz sometimes).

Anyway, on my end, there isn't that much to report. I am a little lonely these days, actually. There aren't that many people in Oxford at this time of year, and my roommate is in Scotland for ten days. As such, I will sometimes go entire days having spoken only to the person who served my coffee. I am also in a bit of a nebulous place work-wise -- or rather, it can feel that way. I go through waves of feeling like, hey, you've got this PhD. And in those moments of inspiration and confidence, all is well and I put dents in my work little by little and I am not discouraged by a recent forced trip back to the drawing board. And then at other moments, I feel like I'm doggy-paddling tiredly with no shore in sight. Those aren't the best. I think the real issue is that I go a little crazy with little to no human contact, which, when added to my natural tendencies towards self-inflicted sleep deprivation, compulsive behaviours of various kinds, and an eagerness to escape into novels rather than face what's bothering me, can lead to some weeeeird outcomes (Hannah's cats will be happy to tell you).

All that to say that this little blog will have the added advantage of helping me preserve my sanity whilst livin' the Oxford dream. Yess!

As you talked about Baba, we really have begun to go our own ways in life, the three of us, and we have worlds of our own now -- worlds that we've partly discovered, partly crafted. It's a wonderful thing, but it is especially so when our experience can be shared, somehow, like here.
Talk soon les boys!

just postin my life away

I start school tomorrow and that usually bums me out but I kind of feel different now like I'm just continuing my life but with school in it.. kind of hard to explain but I don't feel like school is starting like the first day at Charlemagne, I feel like i'm going back to school but that's pretty much all that's changing.

I'm getting used to the independence and even if it was kind of a shock for the first few months (Eve knows from our late night talks in Florida) and anyways I realized how much of a hit you guys moving out while i was still in an awkward age took on me, but don't worry it's also a good thing... In a way, not living under the same roof made us discover all kinds of interesting shit in the mean time but it's tough to always keep up to par with what we're all up to..
...but that's why our dear lord baby jesus blessed us with the intratubes and our own personal teletype machine to communicate with. ;)

speaking of Jesus, i'd like to start with a band that really hit the spot and one of their most popular songs Jesus Etc. I showed Eve and she seemed to like it but anyways check it out tell me what you think..


If you like that then check out their album Sky Blue Sky.. that song isn't from there but it's by far their best work.. Start posting stuff Eve!!