quiet city

2002-04-28

louis, 11:23: #

an excerpt of meredith’s postcard from japan:

would you believe i’ve been in asia for a month now and i haven’t seen a real panda yet?

2002-04-24

emily, 02:33: #

wow. i have always tried my best to understand why things happen the way the do....usually i can come up with some reason. but right now i am at a total loss. i no longer know what i should be expecting of myself, and i think i have lost any (or at least most) expectations I had of others. why is that you might ask? because right now i seem to be facing rejection after rejection, and what happened to night just pushed me over the edge. i broke down. i haven't been this upset or cried this hard or been this confused since my uncle Carl died senior year. and now i am pissed because i let myself get drawn in by it all....i didn't remain strong under all the pressure. and so i have let myself down in ways i had hoped would never happen. all i can hope for is that things will turn--i just hope they sooner instead of later.

2002-04-20

Bill, 13:48: #

Tomorrow starts the new season for MIT's open-air flea-market. It is an electronics bazaar that takes place from 9-2 every 3rd sunday from April through October. There are some great deals, and always lots of cool looking stuff. It has all sorts of computer, electronics, and radio transmission stuff. I highly reccomend it to anyone and if you go: the technology group that I help run has a table where we're all getting rid of our extra computer stuff.

2002-04-19

louis, 01:29: #

the world has come to me
and she's all mine just for a day

lyrics to "you never know," from april 13 at hsbu arena in buffalo, ny. there's a bit of "uh, i think" in there… what can i say? i transcribed it myself.

2002-04-15

louis, 12:26: #

what's this? it's back? what's "it?" ah, you must look…

add to that the usual photos:

photo collage of a river by route 16 in medford

2002-04-14

louis, 11:29: #

ready to bite into that fast food sandwich, but wondering how good it is for you? a quick check of burger king shows that a double whopper with cheese has 67 grams of fat and 1010 calories. if you think their chicken sandwich is any better, think again: 43 grams of fat and 710 calories. mcdonalds isn't much better: its least healthy item is the big xtra with cheese, sporting 55 grams of fat, 810 calories, and more sodium than three super-size fries.

so how did i find this? actually, i was looking for nutrition information about starbucks. not its coffee—its food. quoted in september 10's tufts nutrition news, michele kirsch and angela dowden note, "at Starbucks, a measly 7 oz piece of blueberry crumb cake clocks up 800 calories and a whopping 38g of fat. " how's that for nutrition?

speaking of starbucks… has all its recent advertising led you to believe that it serves fairly traded coffee? actually, it's only served once a month. what a wonderful gesture…screw over hard-working coffee farmers all but one day a month. people, it's time to realize that fairly traded coffee is not a flavor of coffee (as starbucks would like you to believe), but rather it's a way of business. for starbucks (and other companies) to be concerned is wonderful, but there comes a time where lip service is not enough.

now's the time.

2002-04-12

emily, 03:46: #

wow...it's been quite a long time since i last posted, but things are going pretty well here in Princeton. the dhs wind ensemble played an truly amazing concert at Carnegie Hall on Easter Weekend. la dee da. there are only 3 weeks left before the end of the semester and houseparties (yay for a 3-day long party...mmmm). and i'm sad to say that i haven't even listened to dmb in a few weeks [sorry louis :p] hope you are all having a great week! oh and i'm going to madison on saturday! YAY FOR MARCHING BAND!

2002-04-08

louis, 13:16: #

it's spring! you know what that means… dmb's on tour. hit the fleet center last night with cindles [ sorry - no photos ]. i really loved the setlist because it was more jam-based songs than pop singles. new song, too: "you never know." neither cindy nor i could understand many [ if any ] of the lyrics, so if you see them floating around any where, please lemme know. more dmb tonight, this time with carolyn. as they say, "not enough, never too much…" [ grin ]

2002-04-04

louis, 23:25: #

finally! i've finished adding data for all of the old photos, so now 100% of my photos that have been online are online. to this, i say "word." to celebrate, here's eleven new photos: