A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

people watching. It's always fun to people-watch on the subway because people are so interesting. For example, there was a woman who was completing her toilet--ie, putting on her makeup and putting in her earrings! Couldn't she have just done that at home before she came to work? There's also the man who was reading James Joyce. I'm not a huge fan of Joyce, and think that anyone who reads him for fun must be nuts. But here this guy was, reading Dubliners (thank God it wasn't Ulysses) right up in... Sign in to see full entry.

...this time at a place on Lexington Ave. that offers support systems for companies who are having difficulties. It's hard to explin; I don't exactly know what they do myself! Still, I'm earning a little bit of cash. Sign in to see full entry.

I just began re-reading Sense and Sensibility. I also re-read Pride and Prejudice earlier this summer. There's something really great about Jane Austen's works that I keep coming back to time after time. I also keep coming back to Kathleen Windsor's Forever Amber (a 17th-century Gone with the Wind), and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, also historical fiction. Is there a book that you keep coming back to time after time? Why? Sign in to see full entry.

Since I have no internet access in my apartment, I'm at Kinko's right now using my parents' "emergency" credit card to pay for minutes to use the internet. Hey, this is an emergency, isn't it?:-D. The real reason I'm supposed to be here is to write letters to the women I met with on Monday afternoon. As you can tell, I'm slacking off a bit! I think we're all entitled to slack off every now and then. After all, if you're reading this, aren't you slacking off as well?:-P. Goodness, I'm using a lot... Sign in to see full entry.

Back in April, just as my senior year of college was drawing to a close, I did a very bad thing that almost got me kicked out of school. I don't want to go into the details of it right now, because I'm still embarrassed by what happened, but I had a nonverbal altercation with someone, which led me, in anger, to retaliate in one of the worst possible ways. Maybe I'll talk about the actual incident later, when I'm more comfortable talking about it, but the result of the thing was that I wasn't... Sign in to see full entry.