December 2009
29 posts
Sincerely, Tiffany →
I love doing this. I spend hours and hours typing entries into a blog that has become my baby, something that offers me nothing in return. Yet I commit, in a way that I am unable to commit to many…
Dec 31st
“It’s true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward...”
– Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
Dec 31st
Read: Trail of Sequin →
http://www.trailofsequin.blogspot.com Trust me. You want to read this.
Dec 31st
“My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about...”
– Amy Winehouse
Dec 31st
Part Three: The Best of 2009 →
I know, I know, this shit is getting long, but again, 2009 was a GREAT year for me. To continue on with the Best of 2009, I once again cracked open my Moleskine, only to find that I didn’t…
Dec 30th
Part Two: The Best of 2009 →
Okay, so it’s 5:23 am on the east coast. Yes, I am aware that I am on the west coast so it’s 2:23 am but my Eastie body thinks it’s past 5:23 am and is exhausted, yet my mind fights on because it…
Dec 29th
Part One: The Best of 2009 →
2009 was a great year in the life of Tiffany Ho. So great that I am cracking open the two Moleskine journals from this year. My, my, let’s all witness how little T.Ho has grown! Started the…
Dec 29th
Back Home, I'm the Cowardly Lion →
I have no balls when I’m at home. Not that I have balls at any other point in time, but seriously, when I am at home, I revert to my pre-college self, too afraid to ask my parents for permission to…
Dec 29th
Hometown Blues →
1. There’s something strange and foreign about cloudless skies and sun on Christmas Eve. It’s going to be warm enough for a Spare the Air Day tomorrow. ON CHRISTMAS.2. I am bored. Really, really…
Dec 25th
The Travel Frenzy →
Oh, so it was my last night in Boston after all. Against all odds (all odds = blizzard + cancelled flights for all the other suckers who couldn’t get out of Logan airport), I made it home last…
Dec 21st
Last Night Woes →
All my actions from last night are completely excusable for one reason: IT’S MY LAST NIGHT IN BOSTON. Until May. Granted this blizzard lets up and Virgin America experiences no delays…
Dec 20th
A Study of Contradictions →
I think that somewhere inside me, my idealistic, romantic self still exists, because I don’t know that I would otherwise be “saving” myself, so to speak. Lauren once told me (and she probably will…
Dec 18th
pride is the unwillingness to be judged by somebody else, which is ultimately the worst kind of insecurity
Dec 16th
Confession: I Care What You Think →
So I’m sitting in Photonics right now and I really should probably be studying for my Enlightenment final but I really just don’t care. And I haven’t done this in awhile. Verillo and I “study-hopped”…
Dec 15th
listen to what you know instead of what you fear
Dec 14th
Bare Life →
I am leaving for California in 11 days. Leaving snowy Boston… for snowy San Francisco Bay Area? What? Apparently it’s snowing in Oakland? The winding down of the semester means it is time to…
Dec 9th
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“Every word you say I think I should write down Don’t want to forget come...”
– “Paperweight,” Joshua Radin
Dec 7th
“We’ve rediscovered the long lost art dying Only the lonely resent angels...”
– “Paradise,” Eyedea and Abilities
Dec 6th
“Can it be considered lawful to deprive mankind of its most sacred rights for the...”
– Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt, in Diderot’s Encyclopédie, vol XVI
Dec 4th
If I Didn't Have to Worry About Getting a Coronary... →
…I’d probably eat the “Fat Chicken” sub from First Bite Cafe in Allston everyday. Seriously. The thing is a heart attack on a sub. It appeals to the child in me, the one whose plebeian…
Dec 3rd
The Press Will Never Be Anything But Bad: Thank you, Albert Camus.I miss writing. And when I say writing, I mean re… http://bit.ly/8o2P0A
Dec 3rd
To Self: A Reading List for Winter Break and...
Nonfiction Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm Fiction Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway The Road by Cormac McCarthy Philosophy The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity by Jurgen Habermas The Birth of Tragedy...
Dec 3rd
The Press Will Never Be Anything But Bad →
Thank you, Albert Camus. I miss writing. And when I say writing, I mean really writing. I mean that I miss writing op-ed columns and real articles (hate the Cambridge beat shit that I have to…
Dec 3rd
“Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate...”
– Joseph Pulitzer
Dec 3rd
“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to...”
– Voltaire
Dec 3rd
“All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We...”
– William Bernbach
Dec 3rd
All You Need Is Love →
I’m not quite the First Amendment absolutist, but I’ve always been pretty quick to defend free speech, seeing as I consider it one of the fundamental freedoms of a liberal society. Today, though, I…
Dec 1st