voncookie | November 30, 2009
Were it not for two days of zombification last week, I would be saying right now how I finished NaBloPoMo successfully. Alas, there was some zombification, and so I completed 28 out of 30 possible posts, which I would say is a pretty good run. I’m so glad I’ve gotten to meet so many cool [...]
voncookie | November 29, 2009
Let’s imagine a situation in which a student says that a literary symbol is the rough equivalent of 1 = 1, where 1 is identical to 1 and ONLY to one. Now let us imagine a situation where a person who has studied the subject for a significantly longer period of time– the teacher –disagrees [...]
voncookie | November 28, 2009
Little known fact about vonCookie: I am a radio junkie. I can survive without TV, I hate going to the movies, and I positively cannot live without radio. I guess it started when I lived in Spain in 2000, and I had no other media available that I didn’t have to pay for through the [...]
voncookie | November 27, 2009
Yes, a happy Thanrsgiving to all. No, I didn’t misspell that. Whatever the reason, whenever I hear someone say “Happy Thanksgiving” it always sounds in my head the way I spelled it above: “happy than-r-sgiving.” Why? Picture it, Córdoba, Spain, 1996… I was living abroad for a semester, in the cranky old town of Córdoba, [...]
voncookie | November 26, 2009
I was just thinking about the many, many times I’ve been in love. I tend to fall in love at the drop of a hat, it’s true, and thus the “many, many” part of that statement. I’ve loved people from across the spectrum– I’m an Equal Opportunity Employer –quite a range of personalities and talents, [...]
voncookie | November 26, 2009
yarnyarnyarnyarn. booksbooksbooksbooks. papers rustling in every corner. My apartment is filled with books, papers, and yarn. Knitted yarn, crocheted yarn, hanks, skeins, wound balls of yarn. Books, read and unread, my ill-gotten gains. And papers–written, half-written, scrawled upon, lying in wait in my computer. I do love all of it, for this royal mess of [...]
voncookie | November 23, 2009
Oh, Ibupr0fen in all your forms, thanks be for your existence. On days like today when I hurt from tip to toe, blessed be your orange caplets. I know not what I would do without you, and your Over-the-Counter ubiquity. My knees thank you, my head thanks you, and even my pinky finger that I [...]
voncookie | November 22, 2009
You know you have a truly inviolable friendship with someone when you can call them up after not talking for a year and pick up *exactly* where you left off. I am so lucky to have a wealth of this particular type of friend, and as I live at a great distance from most of [...]
voncookie | November 21, 2009
Something to say that’s new… His plaid jacket that smells like old cigars and a black bow-tie stiff with his sweat, the comedian flips through his cards looking for a bit that he can do on this tiny stage with tinny sound that won’t cast him as a hack… …which he is… If only, if [...]
voncookie | November 21, 2009
From the 12th floor of the Hilton Chinatown in The City. What a delicious view!
voncookie | November 20, 2009
There is chaos today at Big-U, now that the Regents have passed the fee increase of a whopping 32%. I went to Big-U’s newspaper to read the liveblog accounts (http://im.ly/27b07/) and some dickmunch had the audacity to leave this comment: (The nutjobs come out of the woodwork when sh*t gets stirred up at Big-U.) A [...]
voncookie | November 19, 2009
La Place Française. c’est fermée. Translation? The French Place is closed. Indefinitely. Here I go and get a new computer so that I can start working down there again and it’s closed! WTF??? I talked to the owner today, and he looked like he was on the verge of tears today when he made me [...]
voncookie | November 18, 2009
Hey readers: I won’t be posting for the next few days as a sign of PROTEST against the FEE HIKES throughout the University of California system. If you’re interested in learning more please check out the hashtags #ucstrike and #ucregents on Twitter, or go to the http://ucstrike.com website. I’ll update this list with more resources [...]
voncookie | November 17, 2009
To begin, I really don’t know why I’m awake, considering all the actions I took before bed to ensure that I would sleep. To quote a friend, “Sometimes it just be’s like that.” But here are some other things of which I am wondering, as I wander… If you know a “shooting star” is a [...]
voncookie | November 16, 2009
This is a rather mediocre song that is currently tormenting me with its perkiness and catchiness. I include the lyrics below. It’s a pop song by the French songstress Alizée from 2003. It was very popular the summer I was in Germany studying, well, German. So, I share it with you. Enjoy. And I hope [...]
