January 2005
10 posts
Birthday Lunch
Had birthday lunch downtown with a couple of NYU friends. They’re all so busy that we could only spare an hour, so we had a quick meal. We went to this place that served what can be described as puffy Middle Eastern emapanadas. They were good, but not that filling. The others had salads with couscous and veggies, and all that herbivorous food.
Then we walked 2 blocks to St Marks and had...
Blogging Hiatus
Warcar will be on hiatus until January 30, 2005.
I have embarked on my last semester of graduate school. Which is a killer. Truly. The first draft of my master thesis is due on February 11, 2005, which gives me less than a month to get this all together. (“This” means turning 80 pages of very raw material into a credible, publishable, MFA-worthy 120-page novel.) Hence, the...
Book List
Reading List for this semester (aka books I MUST BUY). If you have any of these and are willing to sell them/lend them indefinitely, please email me. I’ll be in Manila for 2 weeks in February.
Theme for this term is Personal Literary Influences, which just basically means I can pick anyone I want (well, within reason). They’re even letting me do Neil Gaiman and P.G. Wodehouse! ...
T-shirt Message
Message on the T-shirt the people here are selling:
The entire population of Goddard is made up of people who were marginalized in high school.
That pretty much says it all, I guess. Geeks, weirdos, punks, vampyrs, vegans, post-hippies, neo-hippies, post-modernists, post-post-modernists, germophobes, homosexuals, bisexuals, druggists, alocoholics… well, you get the picture.
It makes for...
Vermont Redemption
It’s actually a pretty nice day out. We’re currently at 30 degrees Fahrenheit, or 0 degrees Celsius, which isn’t as cold as I was expecting. (Last year we were lucky to reach 1 below). The snow’s soft, clean and fluffy, which is really pretty, if you think about it. (Quite different from New York snow, which invariably turns into gray sludge and brown mud.)
I ventured...
PANSITAN
Hello guys.
Just wanted to let you know, you can now find me at http://warcar.pansitan.net
For all the updates and new posts, head on over there.
MALAS
Well. I’m here. Finally. Indulge me and let me tell you why you should NEVER EVER fly via US Airways EVER. Sit down, have a beer. My flight was ORIGINALLY supposed to leave for Burlington, VT at 7:25pm. So in accordance with airport regulations, I planned to get there an hour early. My boy of the moment drove me to La Guardia and we got there by 6:15. Fine, plenty of time to spare. ...
Reprint from this time Last Year
I STILL FEEL THE SAME WAY. HELP ME. From January 4, 2004. I’m surprised at my own resistance to go to Vermont. I mean, It’s definitely not hell, don’t get me wrong. It’s pretty enough — the farms and the fields and the acres of snow. It’s fun enough — parties every night and sleigh rides and snowballs. People are nice enough, and what’s more,...
Douglas Adams = Genius
The Hitchiker’s Guide movie is coming out on May 5! This is one of the oh-so-few things I’m looking forward to this year. (How pathetic and sad that sounds.) I’m so excited!
Oh and a bit of trivia: To all you Neil Gaiman fans, well, apparently, Neil Gaiman was a fan of Douglas Adams too! He wrote a book called “Don’t Panic” which is kind of a guide to the...
Why Not?
Another one of those. I may even have already done this one. But what the hell. I took out the sections that I had no answers for, though. From Jeline.
THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1 Wanda
2 Mita (only for family)
3 Tamuts (only for cousins)
THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1 purplegarage
2 warcar
3 warcargirl
THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1 Resilient
2 Socially aware (well, most...