Bubble tea, thrill of my afternoon, cooling of my tongue. My mouth, my mind. Bub-ble-tea: the bounce and blow of my lips taking a trip to the tilt of my […]
Ernest Hemingway Receives a Package from Amazon
The man came to the door. I hadn’t been out of bed yet, but I was awake. When I heard the bell, I lit the lamp and got dressed. He […]
2013 Retrospecticus
I started this off planning to only look back over the fall semester. One of the great things about being in school is that it cuts the year into manageable […]
Ender’s Game: the Good, the Bad, and the Boycott
When I was about 13, I read Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. I was reading Asimov and Bradbury and I really loved sci-fi adventures. Unlike a lot of other […]
Teachers
The other day in my Chernin class, we were asked to talk about our favorite teachers. At the time, I mostly named professors I’ve had at Cal because the people […]
I Love Lucy: The New Series
I grew up on I Love Lucy. It was one of my favorite TV shows, and it still is. I watched it innocently, without understanding what it represented in American […]
What I learned from my first transcription job
I took a work-study job at Berkeley last year transcribing for a project in the Institute of Human development. I received recordings of classroom interaction with kids in the 10-12 […]
Gushing Review: The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Passage by Justin Cronin. This is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. A truly epic tale, on par with “The Stand,” and it’s hard […]
Saturday Write Fever
Saturday Write Fever is an event in San Francisco run by playwrights Megan Cohen and Stuart Bousel at the Exit Studio. I went with my favorite date last night, and […]
Fat Girl Fashion: an eShakti Review
NOTE: I wrote this in 2013. If you’re reading this in 2024, eShakti has gone down the tubes. Very sorry; do not buy. I was nineteen years old when realized […]