I went to BAM last Friday to see Paris is Burning on the big screen. Shot in the late ’80s, this documentary dives into the flamboyant and dramatic world of the ball subculture in gay New York — a sort of precursor to RuPaul’s Drag Race, if you will. The characters were memorable, hilarious, human, […]
Month: October 2012
Scary Future
Thus far I believe that my blog has been, I hope, both hopeful and inspiring. However, I don’t feel as though this blog would be honest or “real” without some of the sadder and more important aspects of life as well. My anxiety has been spiking an all-time high recently. It is for a mixture of […]
A math post about ∆ABC (and a related circle)
So I’ve been doing some thinking, and realized that it is about time that I post a blog specifically about math, or specifically giving you some math knowledge. Be prepared to learn (hopefully). In case it wasn’t made clear, I find math to be beautiful in the way that it works perfectly, in the way that it […]
Flu Season
Recipe of the Week: Chicken Noodle Soup Fall: the only time of year when nature misleads us. Bright blue skies and still green leaves trick us into thinking it’s still summer. Then we’re hit by reality once we step outside and get whip-lashed by the bitter wind. Jackets that were once stored away in the […]
Yoga of sound
Today I had one of the best unplanned master classes at the Aaron Copland School of Music. As some of us QC students may know, it’s the year of India. In honor of India, the music school had a special guest: Indian flutist Steve Gorn perform a concert at 10 am, LeFrak Hall.. I was […]
The Beast With The Ugly, Sleep-Deprived Head
They’re baaack. The midterms are back to rear their ugly, sleep-deprived heads. How are you all doing? Still alive and kicking with me over here? I’m going to make this a quick and snappy post since I know you’ve only got a few minutes of freedom before that textbook starts reeling you in again (a […]
Ping-Pong or Pictures
Think to high school and the questions that bounced around the room. I can imagine most started with the teacher asking a question and then a student would answer. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Oh, then throw in a few “Whys?” by the teacher, and maybe a time for reversals, student questions and teacher answers. The majority […]
Family Barbecue
Recipe of the Week: Hummus For those of you who actually have class on Mondays, Columbus Day this year created a nice little extended weekend. An extra day to sleep in, do your homework, or even go out and do something-dare I say-fun. But Columbus Day for me means one thing: family dinner. Today is […]
Cold Snap
Having a very placid Sunday, holed up at my favorite coffee shop to work on a submission for fiction workshop. My teacher Maaza Mengiste is reading at Queens on Tuesday, which I’m very much looking forward to. I’m only about a month into the MFA program but I feel that things are progressing swimmingly. The […]
Backtracking Thoughts
About a week and a half ago I commented on a geometric art display, but since then someone pointed about that the writing from the art work could be poking fun at verbal proofs. I was struck. How didn’t I see that? While I must continue to see the beauty in the math, I must […]
