Two days ago, one of my peers from high school, who I was friends with for a little, Kyle Larson, passed away. He fell of his skateboard in the city and was ran over by a truck…It’s a tragic story but all I felt was weird when I first heard the news. He was only […]
Month: November 2012
The Follow-up Registration Post With Colliding Trains And Skydiving
So. Registration. How’s it coming along for you guys? Let me tell you how it went for me, eh? As I mentioned in my last post I was one of the first to get my classes in order and sitting neatly in my shopping cart, waiting for registration to roll along. And of course, when […]
Circus Turnout
So the Cage Circus was as weird and fun as I expected it to be. Memorable moments: when the performer of the amplified cactus piece gave his half eaten apple to a theatrical dancer wearing a mask… …when we all performed Cage’s 4’33” piece which is literally 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence and […]
Aftermath
The aftercare of leukemia is scary. At times it seems as though there is not enough. Other times it seems so inconvenient and never ending. I also find it very telling that I have yet to talk about my life after cancer. Sometimes it seems as though I can’t help but relive the days, weeks, […]
The Failing Language of Cancer
This passed summer I took a course called Medical Sociology. It was extremely apropos considering it was one of the first classes I took after my chemotherapy treatments had finished. I wanted to educate myself as much as I could about the medical world without becoming a doctor and I figured this class was a […]
Teachers Unite Via Twitter
Today we had a TIME 2000 seminar. The TIME seminars are monthly meetings when everyone in the program meets early in the morning and guest speakers are brought in to enlighten us about what is new in the Math Teaching Realm. Today we had a great speaker who shared a lot about how Twitter is being […]
Fire Alarm Woes
Recipe of the week: Scrambled Eggs ‘Twas the crack of dawn. Light was barely seeping through the shades of my windows. My eyes popped open with a sudden realization. “I want scrambled eggs and toast” Does this ever happen to you? Waking up at absurd times with intense cravings is never a pleasant experience, unless […]
Ghosts of Yesteryear
There’s a great film series going on at Asia Society right now called Goddess: Chinese Women on Screen. I went yesterday to see a silent film from the 1930s starring the iconic Ruan Lingyu. One of the most prolific actresses of Republican China, Ruan ended her life at the height of her career, only twenty-five […]
Half Over Or Half To Go?
It’s the classic century-old question: Is the semester half over or is it half to go? Personally, I like to look at it as “if I can’t throw these textbooks into a boiling volcano yet, then it’s just a big fat AUUUUGGHHHHH” but hey that’s just me. Feel free to look at this semester as […]
MUSIC CIRCUS! Come one come ALL!
Hoorah! After all this crazy weather, it is time to get ready for my performance in the upcoming CAGE MUSIC CIRCUS on Monday! I have already posted about John Cage, the philosophical composer of the 20th century who’s music is definitely “out there.” In the second half of his career, he started writing chance pieces […]
