| Blog Entry - Monday, March 13th, 2006 | Add / Read (0) |
Well, let's see...
- Grad school -- I'm on "spring break" while working on two 12+ page term papers. Actually, though, pretty fun. One of them is on a bunch of memoirs of Iranian writers and Western writers traveling or living in Iran. I'm talking about how differently the Iranian memoirists see their country, their lives and families, and the politics than Western writers see those things about Iran. Of course, this is complicated by the fact that all the Iranians I've read no longer live in Iran and write also about their experiences in Europe or America. I've probably learned more about how we treat immigrants than about anything else. For my Environmental Science class, I'm writing about recycling paper -- what questions should go into deciding if it's economically feasible and whether there may be issues outside of the economics that determine whether we should be recycling paper.
- Took a quickie trip to Boston to do some interviews. Of course my stupid Olympus digital voice recorder is causing me some serious pain, but this too shall pass.
- Threw a Cherry Blossom Garden Party themed birthday party for a good friend, with the more than help of my friend Margo, who is amazing with the planning-fu. The awesome cool "sushi" cakes were pretty awesome, too. I think our friend had a good time. The boys spent most of the afternoon playing bocce ball and croquet while we chatted, enjoyed the breeze, had tasty green tea punch, and snuggled cute baby Hannah (who, by the way, isn't so much of a baby anymore -- she's going to be a year old in about a month!).
- Margo is so cool, by the way, that not only did she do a lot of the heavy lifting on Saturday's birthday party, but she also put together a birthday party on Sunday for her son, Rhys, who is about to be three. Cool balloons, cake, presents, etc.
- Oscar watching, biking to class (go environment! go thighs!), um, homework, homework, and more homework...
Author: Libby Ingrassia
Posted at: 01:15:18 PM
