Hands up if you get the reference! Photos from here.

“Some people are irked by bad lighting, excessive AC, the reek of European men’s cologne. I’m hopelessly particular about music. Background sound tracks can make or break my impression of a place-and these days every place has one, from wine bars to Williams-Sonoma. Too often it’s employed with alarming incompetence.
I’m not talking about loud music [...]

First, there was the anxious, certainly neurotic, habit of hitting the ’save’ button like it was a new religion, a modest offering to the gods of academia informed by the desire to placate their vengeful spirits and emerge out of this fall term unscathed.  Then, in the midst of it all, there was a list, [...]

Oh, Internet. How you distract me.

Oh, Europe. How you tease me.

(Photos by: i.Anton, Chinako, Unurth & me. )

Happiness is: a glass of warm apple cider; being able to slowly articulate your passions, layer by layer; having wonderful friends, and deciding that the unexpected will be welcomed with panache.

A group of close friends congregated in my kitchen last night for Operation Consultation: a chat and exchange on my research and its future. We [...]

As I attempt to cross multiple items off my to-do list, I find myself staring outside my window a lot. My barren living room has only one functional element in it, and it just so happens that said element is a massive, work-accommodating desk overlooking my leaf-enrobed street. On glorious fall days like this one, [...]