Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
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2:02 pm - twenty one
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for my birthday:
we danced
we flew kites
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
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9:24 pm - News
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So far, I've been accepted into UPenn, Michigan and UCSD for a PhD in English. Still waiting to hear back from half my schools. Will be moving soon, have any of you guys been to Ann Arbor or Philadelphia?
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
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1:09 pm - update
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Rest assured friends, I'm still alive! I've been back in Austin for about a month and things have been going along swimmingly. Jordan and I moved into our house which is perfect for us. I will post pictures of our gorgeous living spaces and my room when it is all in order. The color of my room is a calming and tasteful slate blue which surprisingly matches everything that I already owned including a faded Picasso sketch of a young boy in a watercolor coat.
Even if I hate to admit it, life has been rewarding and satisfying. Rob and I have been spending time together doing next to nothing and enjoying each other's company. Everything feels like it's in order and I feel like we're good together. There is something crushing but reassuring about finding someone who fits into your life like a delicate glove on small hands. Last night we watched a Joseph Campbell special on the power of myth and I've decided to stop trying to resolve or explain my contentment. Perhaps, in the slightest way, everything is just constitutive of a myth of personal happiness.
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
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1:13 pm - Princeton Feature
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For the week, I'm featured on the front of the Princeton website. Neat and pretty exciting so I thought I'd share it. Link to article
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
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6:20 pm
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
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12:54 am
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Jordan Little: from now on
Jordan Little: everything is é
byé
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
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5:53 pm - UN PROJET DE MUSIQUE
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
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1:16 am - Princeton
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I arrived at Princeton on Sunday. Things are beautiful here and my professor is amazing. I start my bibliographies on Thursday and the people are diverse and fun to be around. All in all, I miss my friends at home but love being here more than anything.
They are incredibly generous and I spend my time walking along idyllic paths and enjoying the cool breeze. I kind of love living like a college student for the first time.
Most of all, I look forward to talking to him at night. He makes me a better person and smile so wide when he calls.
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
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2:24 am - hello
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pre-elephant room lounging
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
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2:28 am - hello
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i bruise easily. especially after late nights, i'll wake up with mosquito bites and dark spots, 90 degrees on my limbs.
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
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12:14 am - sup
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pretend: free like the air.
it's totally uncool to smile.
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
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11:54 pm - la la la
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i'm going to be the maid of honor in a wedding this weekend, it's official: i'm a grown up. :(
on a lighter note, i'll be spending my summer at princeton doing research with prof. gikandi, i think he does something with african postcolonial and british imperial lit. he's writing a book on slavery and the culture of taste - pretty neat. all in all, i'm pretty excited to get out of texas to get paaidd for once.
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
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1:33 am - Près du Grand Palais
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Paris, Decembre 2006. Les enfants dans le jardin.
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
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4:07 pm
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I stayed here an extra day, there is so much time in a day that you forget when you're busy. last night, i got a mix from someone who i realized i have more in common with than i realized. i'm going to try to ease into this relationship, thinking about it makes me feel warm.
i love sitting in my apartment alone with nothing to do on my pillowy bed of solitude. i am the queen of my nest of down feathers, dove fleece and egyptian cotton.
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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
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2:10 pm - Sappho's fragment
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Tonight I've watched
the moon and then
the Pleiades
go down
The night is now
half-gone; youth
goes; I am
in bed alone
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Friday, December 15th, 2006
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2:14 pm - Half done
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Lately I've been thinking and I think that I've been wanting desperately to have time to myself and push people away. Things are the way that they shouldn't be, I have no control over them. The world is overwhelming, I am leaving soon, I wish for good -- I'm not looking forward to anything. I just owe people things, I owe myself a lot of things, maybe thats where I went wrong.
I wish I had time to smoke before I had this interview.
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
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11:25 am - Something to share
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Into Thin Air
Monique Truong is caught between her country of birth and her country of refuge—neither of which she can yet call home.
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The conversation usually begins this way: "Are you from Vietnam?"
"Yes."
"It's such a beautiful country. My (wife/husband/significant other/friend) and I were there last (year/month/week). The food was unbelievable. The people were so nice. And everything was so cheap ..."
"Um. That's what I've heard."
"So you haven't been back?"
"No."
Sometimes I follow up my no with an explanation: "I just haven't had the (time/money/emotional ballast) to make the journey."
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If Vietnam is a tattoo, then I would prefer to think of it as an S that spans the hollow between my breasts or that hooks around my belly button, a beautiful green dragon that I placed there all those years ago, my secret scar to keep.
( Read at your leisure )
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Friday, November 17th, 2006
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8:26 am - new
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I just got a new macbook pro in 15' yesterday. I think I'm in love... its just sorta beautiful.
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
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10:26 am - post-colonialism
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Yesterday, I had a discussion with my professor about the path I should take within the next decade of my life. I always assumed that I would apply directly to graduate school but the discussion led me to confirm something that I've been thinking about for quite sometime. After I graduate, I'm planning applying for a Fulbright to do research in Vietnam.
I'm interested in accomplishing work in the political, social and literary implications of French colonisation in the early 20th century and the transformation of the Vietnamese language into the Arabic/Latin alphabet. I want to explore the constructs of gender, class stratification and francophone-vietnamese literature in the past century (particularly since the Vietnam War) in response to the Western "centre". In terms of establishing a "postcolonial status", I really want to study Vietnamese literature's role in constructing a Vietnamese woman's identity under patriarchal hierarchies in post-war communism.
All of this is mainly a bullshit theoretical reason for me to see my family in Vietnam and find opportunities for my cousins to go to college. As my professor said, I knew what a subaltern was even before I knew what it was called. I feel really relieved about the whole thing.
current music: Malcolm X's speech
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
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10:29 am - spontaneous
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i'm flying to barcelona in 2 months to go through paris, switzerland and the french countryside. i can't believe its happening, i bought my ticket last night.
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