“It’s funny—I was just talking to my friend before this about how in the Instagram era it’s so easy to edit your life so that it looks perfect. But I bleach my top lip and tweeze my eyebrows and you’d never get to see that, even though it’s a part of my routine. There’s still so much shame around the things you do to get ready while you've got a towel wrapped around your head. It’s important to me not to edit that out. I’ve been bleaching my top lip since I was nine. I don’t do it very often, but I do it! There’s that, and I use Fur Oil. I’ll use that anywhere from the ends of my hair to my eyebrows to my pubic hair. It’s an amazing all-purpose product.”
2017: practice in not giving a shit about things that don’t matter and giving a shit about things that really do.
Me: *notices big soft dog bed in corner of Professor’s office* Is that for your dog?
Prof: I bring my dog to work sometimes. Would you like to meet her in office hours sometime?
Me: YES. IN FACT, I know MANY grad students who would love to meet your dog!!!
Cheryl Strayed, Wild
Reunion with @rgfellows (and fulfilling New Year’s resolutions)!
- Tea with honey and pita chips with soft goat cheese and delicious sausage
- Talking about life and BS in one’s life and the election and grad school and Harry Potter and how Snape is definitely not “the bravest man” (just something you kind of have to say since he dies)
- ...while the rain fell softly and softly fell outside...
Can’t wait to go to the ICA with @rgfellows on Saturday and admire/laugh at all the modern art!!!
New Year’s resolution: spend more time with @rgfellows on the East Coast because I will no longer be losing my mind over soul-sucking exams.
Well, having my Professor find my Instagram and “follow” me is not ideal...
That young Professor who I’ve never seen NOT wearing a suit, the one that’s stated he “doesn’t do social media,” and the one whose never tried a Cheez-It before this May....decided to get a Facebook. He friend requested just about everyone (including us grad students, who might still be taking classes with him). I was thinking it was going to be a very strict professional thing (he is very careful with his image), but right away I’m bombarded with a profile photo of him in a cowboy hat, another one of him eating a whole pizza (I’ve legitimately never seen him eat before), and another one of him wearing Kanye shutter shades. What???
@rgfellows is coming to Tufts!! I’m very excited to welcome her to the East Coast. Time to pull out those thick sweaters and warm scarves!!! AND PREPARE YOURSELF FOR AMAZING APPLE CIDER.
Yay!! I just found out that I got accepted into the art history Masters program at Tufts! I’m still waiting to hear about funding and to hear from other schools but it was one of my top choices so I’m thrilled! :)
YESSSSSS CONGRATS CONGRATS CONGRATS!!!!
SUCH AWESOME FABULOUS NEWS FOR AN AWESOME FABULOUS PERSON!!!
I’m a poor reader and thinker when it comes to poetry, but I’m glad I have him (and her)! as my Professor this semester!
Going to this school is: walking through wood paneled rooms full of grandfather clocks and sinking my feet into thick carpets on my way to a class taught by Homi Bhabha (who will talk about that one time he was asked by Coca-Cola to write on “globalism”) and wondering if I have mud on my shoes.
Financing the Life of the Mind by Sarah Ruth Jacobs
Marlow in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Dorothea Brooke, Middlemarch