Posts Tagged as ‘writing’

December 14, 2007

4339 to Atlanta

On greyscale days like these when nothing seems to stand out it is easier just to stay inside our minds and color in our thoughts. We could be just like two preschoolers with thick red crayons at a restaurant hard at work on our placemat masterpiece. This is my favorite thing of all to do [...]

June 5, 2007

fruit flies, colors run, and love is an effortless endeavor

If we all smiled as much as Debanshi at her Arangetrum, I believe the world would be a much happier place intrinsically. If we all wore glasses like Miss Marmelstein’s, there would be no war, because we’d all be too busy laughing at each other to shoot bullets. In fact, national boundaries would dissipate. We’d [...]

April 27, 2007

Senior Year Speech–April 2007

(In memory of Dr. C) I know what you’re thinking. “Oh, it’s Nina, delivering another double-shot of pungent revelations about the flavorful ambiguities of our role in the universe” (yes, I was drinking coffee when I wrote this). Well, I hate to disappoint you, but I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about what [...]

March 1, 2007

wordplay

Why, hello there, you strappingly handsome young buck of a reader! I am back with another knee-deep description of my existence—so, please, suspend your boredom for a while, sit back and surrender your soul to my resounding resolutions for the remainder of this reading period. I’d like to have a short word with you about [...]