Not as jaded as I thought

*sigh*
Such a great night.
Saturday will be even better (I hope).
On my iPod: “Lay Lady Lay” –Bob Dylan

Learning to leap

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how my path over the past couple years has led me to where I am now. More specifically, I’m living in a city I never, ever, ever thought I’d live in, going to a university that I never thought I’d attend, to get a degree that I [...]

Mostly good, with a tiny side of bad

This week has been incredibly hectic and a little bit great at the same time.
School is winding down for the semester and work is getting crazy out of control…but things should calm down after Monday. Although, not really, because I have another paper and presentation due the following Monday…but, hey, it’s the homestretch. [...]

Internship Heaven

So, a month long internship is a big component of my program. We had to hand in a sheet listing our top three choices for internships. I had two print choices and one tv choice. Then at the last minute, like, literally, the last minute, after I’d already handed my choices in, [...]

Not Going to Happen

So, I got a definitive answer to the potential India trip this weekend: No.
I can’t say that I was really at all surprised. But what did surprise me was my reaction to hearing it. I was devastated. I tried to act all cool and nonchalant about it. I just [...]

Water

If you haven’t seen Deepa Mehta’s new film Water, I urge you to go see it immediately.
It’s been embroiled in a lot of controversy in regard to its stance on the treatment of some widows in India. Its message is anything but unclear.
Nonetheless, it is at once deeply moving, profoundly beautiful and achingly poignant.

Lest We Forget

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To [...]

Cookbooks

It’s very rare that I buy a cookbook for myself. I’ve amassed a good number of cookbooks, probably upwards of 20 (not to mention the multiple years of back issues of Gourmet and Bon Appetit), but I’ve received most of them as gifts, for Christmas and my birthday. I spend the year compiling [...]

Never lend out your mat: a cautionary tale

Oh the irony..well, actually, it’s not irony. It’s just kind of stupididty and lack of foresight. I don’t have school on Tuesdays until 1:30, so after a colossal sleep-in this morning I got up and really wanted to practise. That’s big, because I haven’t been dying to practise in awhile. So [...]

India on my mind

I want to go here:

I talked to the Gay Husband on Sunday for about half an hour (God bless the invention of the long distance phone card!). He’s loving India, absolutely loving it. He’s really settled in well and hasn’t been feeling homesick at all. He teaches five afternoons a week, does [...]

She’s back…

I swear, someone could be a marathon runner and a weightlifter and a gymnast and ashtanga would still kick his/her ass. I finally came back to practice today after what was probably the longest break from practice since I started ashtanga nearly three years ago. And I can already tell I’m going to [...]