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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Dear Intelligentsia Coffee,

Thursday, February 19, 2009

It is very nice that you are opening up a pretentious new location in Venice with fancy hydrolic pods or something, but please will you open a store in West Hollywood in the empty storefont near my house. I will give you hundreds of dollars.  Thank you. Love, Alexandra Dear office computer, It has taken [...]

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And also I fell and skinned my knee. Luckily, my heart is made of fourtanium

Sunday, February 15, 2009

1.  Dear my students:  the question about “which movement is this song associated with” was referring to a social movement.  Therefore the answer is not “the movement of swaying your hips.” 2.  Dear American Cinematheque:  Thank you for having a Valentine’s day double bill of Baz Luhrmann films about how if you fall in love, [...]

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Nightmares of the bookish and nerdy

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Last night I had a dream that I had submitted an abstract of my Amy Winehouse paper to the AMS and they sent it back to me in the mail with every sentence crossed out in red pen.  And also “FALSE” was written in the margins, beside every sentence that had been crossed out in [...]

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How I escaped the void

Monday, February 9, 2009

So, I have been spending a lot of time staring into the void these days, because, you know, there’s a recession, so what else are you gonna do, right? but I emerged from my endless ponderings of the abyss this weekend and thank goodness I did, because here is what happened: I had a birthday, [...]

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In which there is a dillemma:

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Masters’ exams are the weekend of May 23rd, I’ve been accepted to a conference in North Carolina (that I would really love to go to) the next weekend, and the weekend after that is the Echo conference, which I am co-organizing. The question at hand is: Do I go to the North Carolina conference in [...]

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