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From this morning’s Post, a delightfully breathless story about how cold it was this weekend:
Many Washingtonians exulted in a sunny Saturday, but their delight came on a day that could also be described as the coldest since March.
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But about eight hours earlier, the mercury had dipped to 35 degrees. It had not fallen so low [...]
As recently alluded to, I recently moved from my Little Ancestral Village in the Provinces to The Big City.
Short version: It has taken some getting used to, but maybe not quite as much as I expected, and I am really loving it.
Qualia Coffee in Petworth. Qualia. Coffee. It all depends on whether or not their coffee is good enough to justify the trek, I guess. But they are a micro-roastery (yes I know that’s not a real word), so that’s encouraging, as is the excerpt from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article [...]
So I’m moving to DC soon, and in preparation I’ve been scoping out DC-oriented blogs. There are certainly plenty out there: the Washington Post of course, and DCist, as well as more Columbia Heights-specific things like Prince of Petworth and New Columbia Heights. But my favorite so far is ReadysetDC, which has a [...]
Okay okay, I know it’s been a while, but first I was writing my thesis, and then being plied with alcohol and mixed emotions as a future alumnus of a wealthy institution of higher education, and finally reverting to my natural, hermit-y state, as per the instructions of not one but two trashy magazines’ horoscopes. [...]
The first stop on my grand-ish spring break adventure was Atlanta, GA, to visit some (most) of my study abroad program-mates. We ate, we drank, we lived like kings and queens. Notable highlights were a really sweet potluck dinner in honor of Passang-la, our incredible program coordinator of sorts who is in the [...]
This photo essay depicts the scrappy, entrepreneurial side of the slums of Mumbai. Cobbled together homes sit side-by-side with cottage industries in Dharavi, including some very industrial ones like recycling outfits which together reclaim eighty percent of Mumbai’s plastic, people that grind down paint chips into a powder than can be re-constituted into usable [...]
Yesterday was Mountain Day, and with the rest of the Williams campus I hiked up a mountain to feast on cider and doughnuts, listen to a cappella and sing The Mountains at the top of my lungs. The weather was perfect, the company was good, and to put the finishing touch on the perfect [...]
After a late-night soap-scum-scrubbing, mattress-chucking-down-stairs, cleaning and packing extravaganza I am officially on my way home. The plan is:
Tonight, staying with slightly cooky but wonderful family of friends of the family, watching the olympics and eating mint chocolate chip cookies
Tomorrow, bus to Indianapolis to crash with Lara and probably watch more olympics
Saturday, taxi to the [...]
I forgot to put this in teh big life update, but I think it deserves it’s own mention. Last week I decided to finally drag my butt down to the Bloomington Tibetan/Mongolian Cultural Center (whence the previous picture came), since the weather was wonderfully cool and I just wanted to ride my bike somewhere [...]
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