HOLD ON TIGHT

HE SAID, MARIE, MARIE, HOLD ON TIGHT And when we were children, staying at the archduke's, My cousin's, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened. He said, Marie, Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. In the mountains, there you feel free. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. ~ The Waste Land, "The Burial of The Dead", Eliot Monday, April 21, 2008 back got in late. was a good trip. we laughed a lot at the tacky manhattan skyline from weehawken, and the neon NEW YORKER, i relieved old memories in washington square park. the trees were in full bloom, and the village was pretentious and collegiate and flamboyant and flirty and bookish all at one--all the contradictory impulses of NYU in spring. gotta love that school. it was wonderful just being in the children's publishing division surrounded by books and passionate in s&s. i don't know how it went, and how the international student status looks, because they dont get a lot of international students applying obviously, and i sounded really stupid trying to explain what OPT meant. this f1-status. im psyching myself that im not getting it. anyhow i'm probably a lot better after this trip, and after issues have been cleared up. and at least i have discovered something about myself: that i hate shortlines and greyhounds. 12 hours on the road up and down new york state by yourself, with random people trying to talk to you and ipods blasted around you. godawful. i actually got homesick for ithaca halfway through, and upon arriving at port authority at the shitty route 20 booth. i'm so in love with ithaca that i'll be coming home every other weekend bound for ithaca in the summer. nothing beats tompkins county! local pride! whoo hoo:) i ought to get some sleep. cos tomorrow is a big day. posted by dawn # 11:50 PM Comments: hey love. be safe, okay? and be happy! take good care of yourself and have a krispy kreme for me if you see one. -hugg- # posted by coloured light : 1:29 AM i know, will. i dont like krispy kremes, but i will do it for you. the things i do for you nurul. ..... dawn # posted by Anonymous : 7:21 AM HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE KRISPY KREMES??? i dont understaaaand. anyway, i have an exam tmr. not happy. =((( miss you, love. # posted by Unknown : 2:10 PM Post a Comment << Home		[publishing] Publishers Weekly . Dystel & Goderich . New York Center for Independent Publishing . Association of American University Presses . Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators [people] clarisse . nurul . aunty zarina (ummi's bakery) . jeremy . pak . cyril . softblow . karen & kenny (booksactually) . eric . joel . [other loves] digitaljournalist . ballet dictionary . poetshouse . urbanwordnyc [me] dawn, singapore, new york city, ithaca. [yesterday] children's book week growth dividends at least a little bit a big room when the thunder called relieved mothers and brothers clearing up horses very interesting [archives] January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009

HE SAID, MARIE, MARIE, HOLD ON TIGHT

And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

~ The Waste Land, "The Burial of The Dead", Eliot

Monday, April 21, 2008

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got in late. was a good trip. we laughed a lot at the tacky manhattan skyline from weehawken, and the neon NEW YORKER, i relieved old memories in washington square park. the trees were in full bloom, and the village was pretentious and collegiate and flamboyant and flirty and bookish all at one--all the contradictory impulses of NYU in spring. gotta love that school. it was wonderful just being in the children's publishing division surrounded by books and passionate in s&s. i don't know how it went, and how the international student status looks, because they dont get a lot of international students applying obviously, and i sounded really stupid trying to explain what OPT meant. this f1-status. im psyching myself that im not getting it. anyhow i'm probably a lot better after this trip, and after issues have been cleared up. and at least i have discovered something about myself: that i hate shortlines and greyhounds. 12 hours on the road up and down new york state by yourself, with random people trying to talk to you and ipods blasted around you. godawful. i actually got homesick for ithaca halfway through, and upon arriving at port authority at the shitty route 20 booth. i'm so in love with ithaca that i'll be coming home every other weekend bound for ithaca in the summer. nothing beats tompkins county! local pride! whoo hoo:) i ought to get some sleep. cos tomorrow is a big day.

posted by dawn # 11:50 PM

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hey love. be safe, okay? and be happy! take good care of yourself and have a krispy kreme for me if you see one. -hugg-

# posted by

coloured light : 1:29 AM

i know, will. i dont like krispy kremes, but i will do it for you. the things i do for you nurul. ..... dawn

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:21 AM

HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE KRISPY KREMES??? i dont understaaaand. anyway, i have an exam tmr. not happy. =((( miss you, love.

# posted by

Unknown : 2:10 PM