Lot of things are changing and I should be more excited, more grateful for all of this. But I am just a bit... meh. Even as the world moves on and tries to reshape itself around the pandemic, forcing everyone to believe its all in the rear-view now, throwing open doors and welcoming everyone "back", something inside me knows on an atomic level that absolutely nothing is the same and can never be the same. …
Category: Random
(Butternut squash) soup.Wearing winter things, but without gloves.Halloween.Pastels.Boots.ALL THE SEASON PREMIERES!Foggy mornings.Crunchy leaf piles.The beginning of cat snuggle season.Scary movie marathons.Leaf-spotting.Long drives along colorful roads.Fun costumes (that aren’t appropriating any culture).Apple cider.Seasonal decor.🎶 ‘Cause this is THRILLERRRRR 🎶 Hot chocolate.Cleaning out closets.Socks.Oktoberfest.Sweaters and cardigans.Candles and bubble baths.Putting out fairy lights.🎶 Who you gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS! 🎶 Blankets and throws.Jack-o’-lanterns.Lipsticks in berry shades.Supernatural reruns.Extra chai just because. …
“What’s so special about Princeton anyway?” you asked on the first sunny day this past summer, in your 9274th attempt to get me to move to New York City. My answers over the last eleven months at that point had varied from a mock-scandalized “..uh? Michelle Obama???” to the dramatically whined “nothing. absolutely nothing.” You manage to ask me every single time you see me. I give you a new answer every time you ask. …
After years of contemplating to do so, and after weighing several pros and cons of me actually maintaining this, I finally decided to get a website. There is no big agenda here – this is just a transition from my previous blog (that is exactly 8 years old today!), which had fallen into serious neglect over the last couple of years into a slightly formal version of a webpage which I will hopefully update far more regularly. Why a new …