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From Life magazine, Dec. 1932, p.19:
ABBREVIATED NONSENSE
Of persons I know a great No.
Who go to the Opera and slo.
I’ve often walked the Ave.
To see the beauties. Have.?
I bought stock in a western oil Co.
As for oil, I don’t think they po.
The knowledge to be an Esq.
Is one that is hard to acq.
A woman needed a [...]

From Madrid, Deven and I flew to Lisbon, Portugal, where we spent 3 days. Old Lisbon (or Lisboa) is absolutely beautiful. The colorful tiled buildings, the black & white pavement, the weather, the water — we knew nothing about the city before we went, but the good things we’d heard about it turned out to [...]

After our classes had (mostly) ended this month, Deven and I embarked on an adventure in Western Europe. This is the first installation of a planned trilogy detailing said adventure!
We spent 3 days in Madrid, Spain. It was a lovely city, literally in the very center of the country, and surprisingly newer than I thought [...]

If you are not one of my parents, please disregard this blog post!
However, if you are, neither of your Roadrunner email addresses are working. I keep getting “invalid mailbox” auto-responses. Bug in the system? Grr! The internet has turned against us these past two weeks. I just wanted to ask if you could set up [...]

Crow made the rule this week, and Caiti, Gabe, and I followed suit, some later than others. Can you guess the shared theme? The following is the result of a conglomeration of things: reading Thomas Bernhard (Corrections, my fellow CNF scholars?), rereading Milan Kundera, and a weekend jaunt in Arles with the other Brown-in-France students. [...]

On Fridays, Crow, Caiti, Gabe, and I write short fiction pieces based on a chosen rule. We don’t tell you the rule but rather encourage you to read all 4 shorties and take a gander yourself. Here is mine:
Moment/us
“Will you wait a moment?” he asked us. Motionless, we said, “Just a moment,” and he smiled [...]

Bruxelles!
I don’t have any classes on Mondays, so today felt like another slow Sunday. I did, however, manage to get a few things done, including meeting up with a couple other Brown students to buy tickets for a 4-day weekend trip to Bruxelles (Brussels). I’ve never been to Belgium before! We also booked hostel rooms. [...]

It’s not a great picture, because you don’t really get the full view of the whole crowd marching (or ambling, really) down the street, but you get the idea. The white and blue sign says “Sarkozy n’aura pas la peau de l’université,” which, as the metaphor is sort of cross-lingual, means “Sarkozy won’t have the [...]

Yesterday, we (Brown in Paris students) walked around Saint-Germain-des-Prés, a super chic quarter in the 6th arrondissement. It used be the intellectual hub of Paris. Les Deux Magots, the café where Picasso, Hemingway, and Sartre all hung out, is just across the street from a really beautiful church, Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where the above photo was [...]

Now for an update.
First: Wider! Greener!
Second: I leave for Paris tomorrow. Here’s the plan: a photo a day, like Paris Daily Photo, which I’ve been following for months. He doesn’t just post photos — he includes interesting peeks into la vie parisienne! I hope to do the same, but with a different perspective: the traveler [...]