her own eyes http://her-own-eyes.org/ "A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes." - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing en Copyright 2008 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:52:53 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification i always forget how much i like ee cummings i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
                                                     i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

]]> http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/07/i-always-forget.html http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/07/i-always-forget.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:52:53 -0500 if i were in charge of making maps of the united states, i would cut out all those pointless boring states in the middle like kansas and missouri so that san francisco and boston would be right next door to each other.

revised map of the united states
]]> http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/07/if-i-were-in-ch.html http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/07/if-i-were-in-ch.html Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:19:04 -0500 adulthood & kittenhood this saturday i took my driver's test and finally became a real adult.

basically:
1 i was very nervous
2 it was very easy

i didn't feel especially nervous, but i was nervous in a very physical way, akin to how one might feel speaking in public or to a cute boy. my hands were shaking as i fumbled through my wallet for my learner's permit, shaking when the tester had me sign some form, and shaking still when he had me prove i could turn on the high beams.

but fortunately, as the test went on and i realized how straightforward it was, i calmed down. you're allowed three chances at parallel parking, but i only needed one. the most difficult part of the road test was driving through the parking lot: the 15 mph speed limit had me looking down at the odometer constantly to make sure i didn't go over, which threatened to distract me from important things like stop signs and other cars.

most importantly, i passed! they're going to mail my real driver's license to me, but here's the temporary one they gave me for the next two weeks:


also, since i've been home i've fallen in love with my sister's kitten, whom i've christened ferocia. her given name is 'axis time,' which is possibly some anime reference i don't get.

she is completely fierce and taken to rearing up on her hind legs like a tyrannosaurus. her other hobbies include tearing into the throat of a stuffed cat handbag, which looks kind of like this, and dragging it around the room. she also chases her own tail and purrs incredibly loudly.

half the pictures i tried to take of her are blurry because she won't sit still, but i did get a few good ones.


]]> http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/07/adulthood-kitte.html http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/07/adulthood-kitte.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:12:58 -0500 cat alarm clock last night i decided that to catch my 11:05 train this morning i'd have to leave bexley by 10:20. i set my cell phone alarm for 9 am with a backup alarm at 9:30 am, so i would have time to shower and finish packing. i plugged the phone into my power strip to charge overnight.

fast forward to 9:55 am this morning. my phone's dead, the alarms never went off, and i probably only woke up because andré was bothering me. genius point: when i rearranged my room a few days ago, i never plugged the power strip back in.

i have no time to shower, and 25 minutes to get dressed and finish packing. fortunately, i do end up catching my train home, but without andré's help, i may have missed it.

on the train, i spend most of my time looking out the window at graffiti and trying to decide what my tag will be when i become a graffiti artist.

also i watched margot at the wedding, eavesdropped on other people's conversations, and did three crosswords.

]]> http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/07/cat-alarm-clock.html http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/07/cat-alarm-clock.html Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:11:04 -0500 roommates 4eva


this month is our 4 year anniversary.

also these pictures are hosted with DROPBOX.

]]> http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/07/roommates-4eva.html http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/07/roommates-4eva.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:56:57 -0500 were there always this many thunderstorms in summer? i can't remember.

]]> http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/07/were-there-alwa.html http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/07/were-there-alwa.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:45:07 -0500 the theme of the day is ITALIAN POP STARS

i have been listening to this on repeat. can't stop.

]]> http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/07/the-theme-of-th.html http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/07/the-theme-of-th.html Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:17:11 -0500 i love reading personals "i just moved here and you look nice."

boston.subwaycrush.com

]]> http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/06/i-love-reading.html http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/06/i-love-reading.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:11:38 -0500 gender?

the pink and blue project

[via designboom]

]]> http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/06/pink.html http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/06/pink.html Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:50:37 -0500 <![CDATA[<3 beth ditto]]>

what did people do before youtube?

oh, right. read books.

i finished brideshead revisited and i've just begun middlemarch.

]]> http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/06/3-beth-ditto.html http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/06/3-beth-ditto.html Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:28:03 -0500 john mccain & my favorite word

also i love this: thingsyoungerthanmccain.com

]]> http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/06/john-mccain-my.html http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/06/john-mccain-my.html Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:31:12 -0500 summer in cambridge on friday afternoon katharine chu and i explored mount auburn cemetery, the first landscaped cemetery in america or something like that. it is pretty gorgeous. the cherry on top, though, was being rewarded with a totally unexpected view of the cambridge/boston cityscape after a hot and exhausting climb to the top of washington tower [i think it said on a plaque that there were 97 steps, added on to climbing to the top of the hill that the tower is on].

i found a picture here of the view of boston, but friday was a much clearer day. there's a video on youtube that doesn't do it justice either, but gives you an idea.

wish i had brought my camera.

on saturday, kf, pr, & i took a leisurely walk down memorial drive to the cambridge river festival. we walked around, sipping on lemonade squeezed right before our very eyes, scored free chips and honey bunches of oats and burts bees line smoothing eye creme ['now get all the youthful without the yuck'], and expressed ourselves with sidewalk chalk. we also saw a man's checkered-shorts-covered butt get squeezed right in front of us. gross.

and i had a delicious twist cone with rainbow sprinkles.

]]> http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/06/summer-in-cambr.html http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/06/summer-in-cambr.html Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:06:26 -0500 spending too much time waffling over stupid things, part ii instead of thin spaghetti vs regular spaghetti, this time it was whether i should choose to read the 1951 nancy mitford translation of the princess of cleves or the 1892 perry translation recently revised by john lyons. i went with the latter, but really i wish i could read french.

also i want to read this.

]]> http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/06/spending-too-mu.html http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/06/spending-too-mu.html Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:35:52 -0500 sunglasses are useful for crying clandestinely on public transportation.

whoever came up with long distance relationships was DUMB.

also. yesterday rian and i installed vmware fusion and windows xp (both free from mit!!) on my new macbook so that now i can watch netflix online whenever i want. sweeeeeet.

]]> http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/06/sunglasses.html http://her-own-eyes.org/2008/06/sunglasses.html Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:05:53 -0500 feministing party cliftonmefallon.png

clifton and i knew this picture was being taken, so while still trying to act candid he corrected his posture and i made sure i was smiling. fallon had no idea and got mad at us for not alerting her.

but i think we all look beautiful anyway.

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