Posted by: pratimaaa on: Tuesday, September 9, 2008
How was yours?
Like all those pictures I have of myself from every year of elementary school, except smirkier.
Posted by: pratimaaa on: Wednesday, July 23, 2008
1. I got back from Japan last Monday. I had wonderful company and a fabulous time. Coming home was awfully dull and made worse by the fact that I had terrible jet lag that lasted me almost an entire week. I had nothing of real purpose to do last week outside of going to class [...]
Posted by: monochromegirl on: Friday, June 6, 2008
So I was talking to some BFA (bachelor of fine arts) friends of mine last night, and this conceptual art exhibit, Shedboatshed, came up. Basically, the artist, Simon Starling, came upon an old shed by the Rhine one day and decided that he would reconstruct it into a boat, row the boat to the museum [...]
Posted by: monochromegirl on: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
I have an unusually deep fondness for basil. So, rather than buy the stuff imported all the way from the Dominican Republic at Food Basics for my summer cooking, I decided to grow my own. I bought four small plants from the farmers’ market yesterday and then impulsively bought a fifth on the way home [...]
Posted by: monochromegirl on: Monday, May 19, 2008
If you knew me in high school, you knew that John Cameron Mitchell rocked my world and you probably saw me at Artsfest in grade 11 – Salvation Army fur coat, blonde Tina Turner wig, neon-orange fishnets – singing Wicked Little Town and its reprise with Tracy and Jade. I’ve outgrown Hedwig and the Angry [...]
Posted by: monochromegirl on: Sunday, May 18, 2008
As you all know, I’m stuck in my wicked little town this summer because I have an internship with a major collaborative research initiative (MCRI) being run out of Queen’s called the Ethnicity and Democratic Governance project. Although I don’t do anything particularly original or academic, I got a really good sense of the kinds [...]
Posted by: monochromegirl on: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Because I’m stuck in my wicked little town for the summer and know all of five people, I’ve begun a curriculum of cultural enrichment for myself. I rented DVDs from Classic Video down the street for the first time last night and started off with Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express.
I think I’ll report back [...]
Posted by: pratimaaa on: Thursday, May 8, 2008
Dispatch 1: Watching Keeping the Faith on Citytv late at night with complete disregard of the time or the mediocrity of the movie.
Have I ever told you about my feelings about Edward Norton?
So, I’m kind of in love with Edward Norton. I am watching Keeping the Faith right now, completely infatuated. It is [...]
