Teaching Fellow

But now I am back at Bard, full of anorexic boys and girls with bouncy walks.


I just got back from buying more watercolor paper and tights with Emma and Lauren.

Before the break I made pancakes with Kalena at 11pm and attended a teaching fellow's event. The one for Manor Annex and Proper is Walter Mead, who is apparently fairly well known and meets famous people and been published in big journals and has been kissed by Yasser Arafat. The talk was on being a public intellectual, and he was somewhat entertaining, but my ambitions hardly lie in the area of political writing. Also, he is less of a conversationalist and more of a lecturer. Still, there was apple cider (and okay cake.) Marina van Zuylen's event freshman year had been better. We had discussed boredom and the cakes provided were truly fantastic.


Sumdedah and I made it to the burrito stand last Friday the day before it ended its season, and Wednesday I went over to lahl's house (lila amanda hallie and lia) and wrote.

But other than that, it's work work work. The most tangible bit is that last Friday I read all of Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse in one day for history class. There has been a band, a theater company, a film, and many other things inspired by the book, which is partially unique in that it was grossly misinterpreted by people who loved it while the author was still alive.

movies; The Third Man, with my parents over break.