One Tough vonCookie

voncookie | June 30, 2007

Mark and I went down to the Berkeley Marina yesterday to catch the sunset. Catch it we did! My oh my, what a sight. *sigh* I do love it here.

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voncookie | June 29, 2007

Copped from toobeautiful.org and Badger, I thought I’d try it out, too—see what my MPAA Blog Rating would be. Turns out I’m at the same level as your average teenage cheerleader comedy. Not what I was shooting for. Oh well. At the very least, everyone I know (with the exception of my cousin Timmy) can [...]

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voncookie | June 28, 2007

I walked into my kitchen today to check on my (increasingly sluggish) fish, Izzard. Interesting. I’ve never seen him in that position before. As if he were doing a yoga inversion… …oh no. My fish is dead. Dead dead deadski. Gone, split, outta here, afterlife kids, deceasedahhh… (name that movie and I’ll buy you coffee [...]

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voncookie | June 28, 2007

I need a break.  I need a break from everything, except for my work.  I don’t want to go to the beach, I don’t want to go on a cruise, or travel to Europe or anything.  I just want to be left alone with my work for a few days.  I’ll come out from under [...]

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voncookie | June 27, 2007

ME gustas cuando callas porque estás como ausente, y me oyes desde lejos, y mi voz no te toca. Parece que los ojos se te hubieran volado y parece que un beso te cerrara la boca. Como todas las cosas están llenas de mi alma emerges de las cosas, llena del alma mía. Mariposa de [...]

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voncookie | June 26, 2007

I just found out that a professor of mine from earlier days passed away, someone who wrote recommendations for me and was instrumental in getting me into my current program, someone whom I considered a mentor, even if her field was entirely different than mine. I find it curious that I can’t cry over many [...]

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voncookie | June 26, 2007

I’ve been sitting here for nearly an hour and a half puzzling over what to write today, debating whether it’s better to write something, anything, or if on days like this where ideas don’t flow (or are just not flowing in the direction of this blog) it’s better just to remain silent and wait for [...]

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voncookie | June 25, 2007

    “No más invitaciones, ni te creo… Es tu castigo.” —The Samba King, 25 June 2007 *********** I was correct in my estimation of the wrath of the Samba King. I walked in here this morning, shamefaced for not going to Pride—upon reflection, I should have walked in here head held high because I [...]

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voncookie | June 23, 2007

I sometimes, I must confess, make promises I don’t keep. I think we all do that, so that shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone. Certain people expect me to welch on certain promises—those are the people that call me “a flake” when I’m not looking. “Oh, vonCookie flaked again, no big shock.” I’ll cop [...]

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voncookie | June 22, 2007

So I’m visiting my Omi yesterday (my grandmother, for those who don’t speak diminutive German) at her house in the hills, and we’re outside in the garden where she’s showing me her latest find—a lavender geranium, something she’s never seen before. She’s showing me all the blossoms on the plant, which she’s hung from a [...]

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voncookie | June 21, 2007

Blacker than pitch, it’s dark. The bus rolls along the Gran Vía, drops me off at the Plaza de Colón. I get off the bus, step into the squid ink that is the air around me. So dark that I can’t even see my feet. But I feel them. And I know they will carry [...]

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voncookie | June 21, 2007

I spent most of yesterday taking notes on stuff written about Einstein when he was at the peak of his fame. Stuff about his facial expressions, his hair, how he was reviewed by the foreign press, how philosophers interpreted his theories… …And now I’ve O.D.’d on Einstein. Too bad I still have at least four [...]

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voncookie | June 20, 2007

“You hear that, New York? The frog is STAYIN’!!!” —Kermit the Frog, The Muppets Take Manhattan   **************************   I’m back, I’m home, I’m in my own space, it is GLORIOUS! But before I celebrate being back in California in a way that offends my entire family, let me just say a few things. First [...]

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voncookie | June 15, 2007

Well, here I am in Vermont for my cousin Nate’s wedding.  The whole family is here, minus one or two people, and it is gorgeous here.  Beautiful weather, beautiful mountains, beautiful lake, beautiful beers that I had before writing this entry… The drive up was fairly easy and, again, beautiful. And it’s nice to see [...]

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voncookie | June 14, 2007

So far today, I’ve run into my old Spanish teacher while at the drug store, two other teachers from my old High School, and a guy that I used to be in Summer Theater with when I was about 10 years old. What a treat!  Sometimes small towns are… well, delightfully small. So nice. And [...]

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