Sera? December 23, 2008

Writer’s Digest asks:
If you had to choose between yesterday and tomorrow, which would you pick and why?
Theoretical underpinnings aside (indeed, I would always choose tomorrow), today, I would choose specifically the yesterday that happened yesterday. My reasons do not belong in a public forum, but I will share the theory that envelopes them:
I believe that [...]

Smoking too conducive to phlegm December 17, 2008

As any responsible child of my generation would, I’ve tried for a long time to convince my mom that she should stop smoking. The efforts were greater during middle school when I was naive about the inherent stubborness that runs through the women in my family, but I eventually had to give up altogether because [...]

Don’t tell me I don’t got the spirit December 12, 2008

At some point during undergrad, I became the girl who hated Christmas. My last year of college, my roommates put up Christmas decorations in the living room and proceeded to show them off to anyone that came into the apartment.

When I came in, they didn’t even bother. I distinctly remember one of them saying, “Leila [...]

Two Weeks Now December 9, 2008

It looks like this pretty much morning to night. Sometimes the fog lifts and we’re just enmeshed in gray. I haven’t seen a shadow in two weeks – how bizarre is that? Furthermore, where is this fog coming from? Sacramento’s nearest body of water is a river…

I’m crossing every finger I have that there will [...]

Love: San Francisco December 7, 2008

Crowds relax me better than a night of sleep, especially crowds on the move. When I have nowhere in particular to go, and nothing in particular to do, I like nothing better than to wander up and down the streets of San Francisco and take in the city. Now that I have my snazzy new [...]

Finals make me want to puke December 5, 2008

That about sums up my life for the past and the coming week. I have nothing in my head worth writing about or reading.