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Swim Parallel
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A camera, a notebook, and a knack for finding riptides. A 22-year-old wanderer working in D.C. and dreaming of travel.
- Added on: Jan 18th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Kat
- Listed in: Personal Photography
- Tags: Photography writing dc life post-college
Recent Posts
I need to find out who this kid is and then never piss it off. Also, I should maybe not refer to my students as "its."
Students at the South Korean elementary school where I teach English have decorated the cafeteria with their projects -- mostly colored pencil drawings, and most of them surprisingly artistic for the age of the kids doing them. The left wall is a was...
Darkness, disappointment
It's 10:45 on a week night, and I know I should be writing for at least two more hours, but I'm not going to. I'm going to turn off the laptop, flick off the light, and curl up with my old bedmate, disappointment. Truth is, there's something in me th...
NaNoWriMo: Or, How I Decided to Stop Worrying and Write
The same day I wrote The Novel (A Breakup), I signed up for NaNoWriMo. I've had my year-and-two-months of pouty self-doubt, and it's time to get back in there while I'm young. Confession: I have tried Nanowrimo — as it will be called here, because ...
It occurs to me that sharing something that nearly asphyxiated me with laughter might not have the karmic payoff I\'d hoped, but what were the odds of getting a free kitten anyway?
Reading The Bloggess's stuff is like listening to a really hilarious joke that may or may not be on you. I keep thinking, "This can't be for real, right? This did not actually happen. She's just trying to see how much she can get me to believe. She's...
That Nobel Peace Prize was for us!
Look, I love Obama... Wait, that's how all the kvetching about this Nobel Peace Prize thing starts, isn't it? Rarely does someone just say "This is total shite." They always say, "Look, I love Obama, but this is total shite." Unless, of course, they'...
The Novel (A Breakup)
I miss the novel, I tell her. She urges me to start over, to write something new. It's not that easy, I want to say. Instead I smile and say I'm trying.It sounds silly to say that I loved you.If you really did, you'd still be around, you remind me, a...
