a not-so-random memory:  my first boyfriend, the redhead, putting a pair of earphones in my ears and pushing play on a Smashing Pumpkins so...

so I signed up for eight weeks of voice lessons this summer. it was kind of fun and random to enroll at the local community college and get ...

{ photo borrowed from who knows where. thankfully this image is in the public domain! } there was a copy of this painting in a tall hardco...

I pulled my high school journal out of its place on the shelf last week, to look back at what I wrote on September 11, 2001. it's a ha...

this song by the singer-actor-musician-person Hilary Duff seems to play every time I stop at the local grocery store. you can listen to it ...

if all goes as it supposedly should, this will technically be my very last fall semester as a student. I am not sure how I feel about that y...

I was going to get up just before sunrise today, and go for a walk, but it was snowing. and my waking self decided to think about dreams (th...

I don't remember how I found the All Things Linguistic tumblr blog , but I love it. usually it points to and comments on other interesti...

today's short and sweet review: The Delphic Wristwatch the podcast's tagline describes it as "luminous snow globes of words a...

I have two of the loveliest friends to thank for originally exposing me to Hamilton: friend Liz, who teaches high school English around here...

this is the song playing in the background: it's from the best Muse album--my most favourite one because it was my first--the one cal...

the soundtrack behind the Saturday yoga class I attend at the campus rec center has become distractingly familiar. 50 minutes of yoga, 50 mi...

eight days and a bit until a new year. I have dozens and dozens of things to blog about. I have photos all lined up from my Blue Apron ad...

I keep seeing this particular redheaded kid walking around campus. I know nothing about him, but I notice and recognize him without any effo...

oh the mist thismorning. and this yellow / white / yellow / mist  / green / grey color palette caught my eye as I walked somewhat disorie...

I had forgotten about this half-parenthetically-titled song. the video is embedded underneath all this concert-reminiscing--go listen. it ...

today was quite grey. I am weighed down with exams to write and books to read, review, takes notes on. this time of year--it is excruciat...

this poet came to perform this week, at my little university in this little Indiana town.  ...okay, neither the town nor the university...

the bulk of my music collection, I confessed to my passengers as we embarked toward the capitol of Indiana for various conference adventur...

tofu. and potatoes. with a garlic, mustard, lemon not-quite-sauce. this was my taking-a-break-from-crazy-final-essay-writing kitchen...