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Current Mood: medicine-dazed/cold drained.
Current Music: whirring of the washing machine.

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The stack of books I have out of the library is amazing:
epistemology of the closet
theories of translation
the coherence of gothic conventions
woman, native, other
specters of marx

And I just realized the strange sensory assonance between cucumber and melon, that biting the skin of a cucumber is like eating the rind of a melon, that cold gelled circle of seeds in the middle so similar.

Need to exercise, shower, and go help Shani get ready for her show, whatever that means. I wish all my energy wasn't zapped by this cold. It's going to be hard to be sober at the George.

I'll be sip sipping on lime and seltzer, sipping my cold away, watching drag, being fabulous. I need to not drink as much as I have been anyway; it's positively ruining my boyish figure.

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Uh oh. Not th' boyish figure!

Cucumbers and melons are both in the family Cucurbitaceae.

I know this because I did a report on zucchini.

trinh is gold.
i like 'when the moon waxes red'.
and sedgwick is sedgwick, of course.

Reading cucumber and melon in the same sentence reminds me of middle school when "Cucumber Melon Body Spray" from bath and body works was the cool thing to wear.

I knew you would come through for me, by grace of your food class! Is it really called cucurbitaceae? That's so weird.

My boyish figure needs to get himself a shower.

isn't it weird how there were cool fragrances to wear? I guess there still are. but G-d, I can remember the smell of that lockerroom when everyone would douse themselves with Calgon raspberry or peach body spray...::shudder::

Oh, Oli, I just miss you. Why did we have to go away different semesters?

also, Gap: Dream and Clinique: Happy. Alhough I'm not going to lie, I saw that Gap has started to produce Dream again and I was tempted, if not just for the nostalgia.

Sip the cold away, watch drag, be fabulous. Wish I were doing the same, except the cold.

Specters of Marx... scary. [and epistemology isn't!?]

you also need to not speak in split infinitives.

sorry liv I definitely don't wanna be a duschebag about it, but the infinitive is my baby as far as grammar is concerned cos it is one surviving link between ours and all the other fucked up languages

and split infinitives turn up so frequently in people's speech nowadays that it makes me sick. it simply displays their ignorance to foreign language, if you ask me.

there is a lot of dismay and hurt feelings in this story too, as I have up with not just one but two English professors at this "school for the stupid rich kids" who said that they have no problems with reading a split infinitive.

I know I exaggerate a lot, but there is an itty-bitty grain of sincerity in what I am saying . . .

Kelsey, absolutely. Can we drink a beer together in the fall? It has been too long.

Ooh, I remember that stuff. It smelled pretty nice (Dream, that is. I never liked Happy.)

I do sometimes slip and split my infinitives. Where did I do it here? "Positively ruining"? I shall stuggle to make my speech more grammatically exact, because the same sort of shit grates on me.

And Mrs RB was the one who first called me on it, by the way.

For sure, yes. We can even drink more than one beer together in the fall, how about that? :)

hey oli kid...

i hear there were riots.

i'm guessing you were holed up somewhere, either drinking or in the library (or both!) safe and sound.

hope so.

-love-

hahaha I love you! yeah mrs. rb was deninitely the one I remember teaching us that sh*t . . .

ummm, to be or not to be right? NOT to be or to not be . . . the infinitive is supposed to be a "single word" that transfers a verb into a noun . . . such as "I do not want 'to sleep' yet" instead of "I want 'to not sleep' yet"

there are other examples of words besides "not" that might make a split infinitive, although that one seems to be the most common mistake. in other words, whenever we express a verb in the concept of a noun, it requires two words, ("to [verb]") and no other words should go between . . . the only reason being that well, in all the other European launguages the infinitive is only a single word.

ahhhh but whatever. although it IS important never to speak in split infinitives, there are other more important things in life, such as getting sloshed on white russians and also keeping in touch with you, liv! : )

Chris my dear, I should tell you I've been going by Oli lately, and also that I can remember the exact split infinitive RB corrected: "to constantly interpret." I am notorious for just sticking an adverb in there.

I got delicious wine-drunk last night plus a tiny bit of homebrewed cider, so all the important things are in line. I hope yr life has been going well man. Where are you gonna be this summer?

there were. I woke up at Shani's apartment early that afternoon and they were already underway just a couple blocks away. Myself and everyone I know are safe.

love,
me

oh this summer? I will be around home especially early on and also later. I think I will spend the bulk of my time working with the carnival, but that should still leave a bit of spare time along the side . . . umm maybe I should give you a call sometime.

Absolutely. I'm hoping to get this internship down in PA near Virginia but we'll see.

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