I have been in worcester for more than a year and was told crystal pond/ university park pond is really a dead hooker pond by seniors. I asked around at Annie clark's brunch place and acoustic java and was told similar nasty stories that made me insecure when i went over there for walks in the evening.
Surprisingly today in the political ecology class diane took us for this walk around red sqaure and besides the other places she took us to 'the spot'. It was amazing to here how she analyzed the polictical ecology of the whole discourse! i was flattered.
Aug 28, 2007
left me speechless
Syeed- How come Niko has two pairs of sneakers? How come I have to wear the same pair through the year?
Aug 10, 2007
rossie and joie
that'a a pics of ross and joie....joie is so cute.....i saw this gentler side of ross once again.....he let joie so cutely climb over him, bite him, shared his toys and snuggle close to him and sleep.....they played like they've known each other for ever.....after an hour of being together when joie went away ross seemed to be already missing him
Aug 4, 2007
about loneliniess and secrets of the soul
"Each one of us is alone in the world. We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them".
'A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, and you can only gain a true knowledge of him by inferences from little actions, of which he is unconscious, and from fleeting expressions, which cross his face unknown to him. Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. But in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. His pretentiousness will only expose his vacuity. The lathe painted to look like iron is seen to be but a lathe. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. To the acute observer no one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul.'
lines from S. Maugham's 'the moon and the sixpence'
'A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, and you can only gain a true knowledge of him by inferences from little actions, of which he is unconscious, and from fleeting expressions, which cross his face unknown to him. Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. But in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. His pretentiousness will only expose his vacuity. The lathe painted to look like iron is seen to be but a lathe. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. To the acute observer no one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul.'
lines from S. Maugham's 'the moon and the sixpence'
Aug 1, 2007
Anthropology’s curse!
As a business management graduate I was trained to think in bullet points and that even most complex issues could be sorted out using cost benefit or swot analysis. I was always intrigued by social sciences, especially anthropology. I used to wonder how it would be to see the world with anthropological lenses. And now the damage is done. I used to decipher problems bit by bit. But now I try to look at the whole entire picture that overwhelms me and makes my world very complex. En plus I cringe to narrate discussions and interviews in third person because the whole time I am thinking was I objective enough, did the discussion get biased because of the power I have as a researcher over the respondent, did the process verge on being unethical, or was it truly consensual….I did learn new ways of seeing and interpreting things with anthropology…..what I complain is about that anthropology did not teach me how to unravel the mess!