Monthly Archives: December 2008

So, I made it back to Seattle just in time to witness an epic snowstorm. Apparently Capitol Hill doesn’t rank highly on important neighborhoods to the city because it’s still a giant pain in the ass to get off of my street. As I trekked out to Gig Harbor yesterday to spend Christmas with the [...]

Prague, oh Prague. It’s good for me to be in a country that isn’t super accessible to English speakers. I have Denmark and Berlin to thank for warping my fragile mind into thinking every EU country is cool with it. It’s arrogant, and I’m glad to have that notion challenged. It’s a difficult city to [...]

My last week here in Europe is shaping up to be an intense one. First, I wasn’t aware/spaced out/totally forgot that I have an oral exam on Friday. And this ORAL EXAM (egads) is in front of more than one person. I am guessing that this project really does resemble a Masters thesis with each [...]

Imagine this: you walk around a room talking to all kinds of people about various issues on your mind, like gender and sex politics, the Third World (or Global South if you are a leftie like me), post-colonization Europe, etc. And out of this ‘conversation’ you start to find people who think a bit like [...]