Summer school started – LSAT prep, Homedepot, Wal-Mart, dorm construction/reconstruction…painted three dorms, redid the fish tanks…traveled, & etc.
Summer school started – LSAT prep, Homedepot, Wal-Mart, dorm construction/reconstruction…painted three dorms, redid the fish tanks…traveled, & etc.
JHR had been here for over a week but only called yesterday.
He brought Kens, and it was a blast in that – Röyksopp, Sigur Rós “we’re from Norway and taking a walk” sort of way.
– Working, reading, writing – they shouldn’t be mutually exclusive.
– Throwback to my days in Zandvoort (what an interesting name for a city, “Sandfort”), emerging big beats, the ice cold ocean full of dead jellyfish, and the money that flittered from my preteen pocket.
– The flittering returned when I bought a day by day agenda, (for like $50) from a decrepit OfficeMax and immediately began micromanaging.
Spring semester started with fall grades still in arbitration.
The menu:
Abstract Art theory (History 560)
Early Modern Andean Art (History 321)
Creative writing w/ Ansay (English 209)
Jews, Turks, & the Moors (English 495)
Lit. & Culture in Classic Greece & Rome (English 310)
Renaissance Venice (History 531)
Fun, fun… I got my planner and inky pens – here I go.
Movies, writing, and Hialeah conspiracies…haha, at least that’s what JHR calls it when we play tricks on Mikey…
Ambitious fireworks in the parking lot (are fireworks legal in Dade County?), duty calls, grunts, Denny’s (aka a case study in neglect) & screeches.
Reading George Eliot’s “Middemarch”, movies, writing, working at the bio department, duty… — winter is here again.
Settled into my winter exile in Mahoney-Pearson, as always.
I have to stay here during the break because the dorm I normally work in is closed for intersession. A few athletes are here, but they just throw their garbage in the stairwell for a week and then leave. The solitude suits me.
I start for the biology department tomorrow. I’m the receptionist. I still work at the library too. I shelve.
And well, as always, I don’t publish during intersession, so all the intersession journals will be available in late January.
Finals, flu, & sinus infection – who’d I piss off?
Misadventure in Broward, illness, tests, the Everglades, papers, oh my.
Twilight of the semester: tests, misadventures in Fort Lauderdale, Little Havana, Taco Bell…
Library nights, starbucks, starbucks, starbucks, Matt & Carmen’s B-day (Touristas in Kendall + bad-dest-assed box of chocolates ever.), Beta Theta Election mess x 4… &, &, &,
Confluence magazine finally uploaded.
Pen to paper, paper to Penn.
Thanksgiving break predictably so, Little Havana, Sedano’s, hulking German-Petite Haitian, & etc., Dan Marino’s, movie placeholders, entertaining, entertaining thoughts, Taco Bell, ARH papers, library, junior year fades, My Super Sweet 16, South Miami, gym, these questions, mortification of mind/body, starbucks mugs…i own them all, frust-triats.., & ice cream.
Throwing things out, keeping them in.
Finished confluence, cutesy shit, last minute assignments, starbucks, waste, movies, movies, movies, laserquest, broward, tacobelllll… Thanksgiving is near…tests are nearer.
The breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
Grappling with rotting books, desperately trying to finish Confluence, hiding in cloth, watching countless movies, midnight runs to Taco Bell, stop (re)format it…my hard drive is dead.
Richter Stacks, Meetings, marginalization, Halloween in Fort Lauderdale (Coliseum, Taco Bell, Beach, 7-Eleven) after a midnight rescue mission of three blind mice in the Grove, long nights, “Borat”, Gelato, and raging queens in South Beach, “Running with Scissors” by NSU in Kendall, “The Queen” and Burger King on Lincoln Road again (got stuck in the rain and saw old rich French guys while stepping),
Flea market in Little Havana (utterly peasant with fannypacks, illegal birds, bootlegs, and immigrants), Homecoming and an explosion of a boat on the university lake, Beta Theta Pi and our first Greek T-shirts, ridiculous amount of design work, Starbucks, Taco Bell, volunteering, redecorating the floor, catching up-touching base, Dostoyevsky, reports, essays, duty drammy…
…a mixture of busyness and inefficiency
became slovenly,
diligently scribbled,
& pushed squares around the courtyard,
Predicated, predated, worked at the library, and saw some movies; “Marie Antoinette” at Dolphin Mall, “Clean” at Cosford, “Last King of Scotland” and “Saw III” at Sunset, “Infamous” at Aventura Mall.
Had my epiphany a few hours ago; it was very tardy, but welcome.
seum, Oz, Sunset (where the fountain was full of foam again), “The Grudge II” in Little Havana, “The Prestige” in Sunset, pledge induction to Beta, guises, tests, beach balls stuck in the lake, reading outside, desperately stamping out inefficiency, “seasoned salt”, Coli with Lewin and Boosnap (after various adventures in Brickell), scorned Gymmy, faked a tan, haired my color (and yes, it did turn out to be orange just like Carol Perry said it would be), got hired at the library, and had constant supply of coffee at all times.
No exceptions.
Semi busy regularity, midterms, 5:35am, marching in semi-darkness to the library clutching my coffee mug, commissions, writing, RA dut(ies).
– Rushed Beta Theta Pi, got a bid
– Little Havana food dives with boosnap
– Titanic bulletin board and canceled program
– “catching up” lunches
– Meetings, projects, Outlook express.
Looking into BETA, Prepping for Midterms, & picking the files off the floor,
– Sunset, Kendall, “The Last Kiss” at The Falls
– Hialeah Gardens, Wal-Mart at midnight, The not-so-grand tour of Hialeah
– “The Departed” with the entire school at Sunset, Hollister, PacSun
– Selecting dragonflies at Dadeland
– Eating Taco Bell at 1am in a park downtown “Ah m’ wife lives in Frankfort!” says the wino
– South Beach (The Beach) after dark, finding rotting things in the water
– Midnight rescue missions in Alexandra’s truck
– Falling out of Cars, Starbucks, Library, Starbucks… Gym,
– Applications, applications, applications, building my castle (?)
Strolling,
Little Havana Pizzaruns, Fight Club attempts (always fall asleep/get distracted during that movie), Taco Bell, Coliseum, Surfside Ihop, Beach/rain/sketchballs, South Beach, not being there for most of the ride home…
…Azucar, Taco Bell again, Jackass: the Movie, Science of Sleeping, Lincoln Road, Artist Colonies, Gelatto, Anthropolie/Base,…listless.
I’ve been slow/things have been slow/it’s been slow all semester. This week: we kick things into gear.
Plotting, bidding, receiving.
Equinox, Tests, Dropping classes, wasting time, & Sklavi.
Despite everything, things culminated.
There was relentless clubbing with the Eatoners followed by late night excursions to Surfside.
…sitting on the beach staring at the lights from distant boats and talking turns talking into the black ocean while the other sipped bad coffee with cheap creamer from the Quickie mart.
Four years worth. Rehashed, relived, and released.
– My roommate moved out but we managed to have him stay on the floor, which is awesome.
– Redid room, got my computer back after much BestBuy screaming
– Lost voice, got it back, lost voice…got it back…losing…
– Dadeland three times (with guest appearances by Mr. Potatohead)