June 2012
2 posts
May 2012
11 posts
I am beyond excited to be painting again. Looking forward to a day off next week and an artistic extravaganza.
AKG
still cannot stop watching →
April 2012
6 posts
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“I know this much, is all,” Franny said. ”If you’re a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you’re supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you’re talking about don’t leave a single, solitary thing beautiful. All that maybe the slightly better ones do is sort of get inside your head and leave something...
March 2012
9 posts
Sunrise tantalize, evil eyes hypnotize: that is the morning, Congo pink. Any morning, every morning. Blossomy rose-color birdsong air streaked sour with breakfast cookfires. A wide red plank of dirt- the so-called road- flat-out in front of us, continuous in theory from here to somewhere distant. But the way I see it through my Adah eyes, it is a flat plank clipped into pieces, rectangles and...
SOoooo excited for a Tigers game and a Chicago Fire/FC Dallas game in the very near future.
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I know I’m an artist,
but I also love sports almost to an unhealthy extent. As the weather is perfect today, all I want to do is run, bike, play tennis, soccer, basketball, volleyball, go to a baseball game… any and all of those.
I also want to meet professional athletes. I always hope I’ll run into them somewhere and we’ll become fast friends.
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a. It is beautiful outside today. I am excited for a run, jumping rope, trampoline…anything. Maybe even TENNIS.
b. Tomorrow = Chicago meeting with my grad advisor. Exciting.
c. I wish I wasn’t at work right now.
d. My sister is engaged. I will soon be the only truly single member of the Gerlofs family.
e. I need people to speak and study French and German with me. I’m...
February 2012
29 posts
My office smells like those elementary school boxed mashed potatoes and gravy today. Lingering food smells can either be really wonderful or really terrible. This one is really terrible.
I’m looking at more apartments in Chicago.
My office is in a dead zone for Jimmy John’s delivery. Bad news.
A.K.G.
this was a huge blessing to me this morning →
“But you have said that already. This is bad, Seryozha, very bad. If you don’t try to learn what is more necessary than anything for a Christian,” said his father, getting up, “whatever can interest you? I am displeased with you, and Pyotr Ignatitch” (this was the most important of his teachers) “is displeased with you…I shall have to punish you.”
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I really loved Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. If you haven’t seen it, see it. If you also have not seen Everything is Illuminated… SEE IT.
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