This past Sunday I had to first-time experiences with Jazz. First, it was my first time going to the Jazz Standard, a very classy venue/restaurant which is popular for having great current Jazz musicians play there. Secondly, it was my first time seeing a jazz orchestra live! And boy, it was great! It was Maria […]
Month: November 2012
The Mystery of the Lost Debit Card
Recipe of the Week: Beef and Green Bean Tomato Soup It was a bright, clear afternoon. My mission for the day: find a grocery store near Queens College and buy groceries! I have actually never gone food shopping near the school – mostly because I didn’t know any grocery stores existed. And that’s when I […]
The After-Thanksgiving Aftermath
It’s always after Thanksgiving break that the game changes. All of a sudden, the midterms are over, the papers get whipped out, and the due dates smack you in the face like a stealthy ninja. I did warn you about them, didn’t I? Somewhere between the pumpkin cheesecake hangover and the cracking of knuckles to […]
Drawing Mathematics
I am a visual learner and a doodler – I love to draw. There is a freeing motion of putting all thoughts and feelings down, into not words, but visual representations. Sometimes there may be nothing to make but swirls, but sometimes a carefully shaded hand or face becomes my artfully formed past time. I always […]
Blame it on the Tryptophan
Recipe of the Week: Apple Crisp Procrastination: the deadliest word in the human language. Or rather, the deadliest word in a college student’s vocabulary. A “break” is never really a “break.” So what happens when you have a ton of assignments to do and three Thanksgiving parties to go to in three days? Chaos. I […]
A New Perspective
About a week ago I got an email from a man named Cameron St. James asking about my blog. He too is a blogger about cancer. The cancer: mesothelioma. However, the difference is this battle is not his own. The diagnosis of mesothelioma belongs to his wife. The email he sent me touched me for […]
Projects
Thanksgiving & Black Friday – Muggle Style
And how is everyone’s Thanksgiving break unfolding so far? Any horrific family dinner stories that you’ll eventually laugh about in the far, far off future? Any wacky traditions that have now withstood another year? For me, I had a lazy blur of two days over here with Thanksgiving and Black Friday. It started with me […]
Reasons to be Thankful
This passed Thursday was Thanksgiving and I am rather surprised there are no Thanksgiving themed blogs up yet. Maybe holiday themed blogs are too cliché, but hey so is Black Friday shopping but I am a big advocate for that too. So here goes my Reasons to be Thankful blog. I am surrounded by reasons […]
Love Notes
My college friends are getting married in San Francisco next year, and I have the distinct honor of doing some kind of literary reading as part of their ceremony. I thought I would just wait and let inspiration strike, but more recently I realized that I may have to do my homework on this matter. […]
