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winter break, spring break, coffee break

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coffee break 2, originally uploaded by dorywithserifs.

I went to New Orleans in January, leading a Hillel group through Jewish Funds for Justice to work with Rebuilding Together.

What that means is that me, my rad co-leader Getzel, and 24 CUNY undergrads went to New Orleans and rebuilt some houses. We heard from speakers, took tours, wandered the city, held reflection sessions, and learned to use power saws and what “fireblocking” is.

I’m going back this week. New group of participants, new building project, same city. Same issues.

I’m reading Hell or High Water this week to get ready. It’s unpacking what we mean when we say that Hurricane Katrina was a racial disaster. The chapter I’m on now is about the history of disaster management and why FEMA was so unable to really respond. It will feel good to have more answers, and more things to discuss on this upcoming trip.

I love cat and girl

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on January 29, 2010
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I love cat and girl, originally uploaded by dorywithserifs.

more bikes, more billboards

these streets will make you feel brand new

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on January 21, 2010
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I live on a busy street, and when I have the windows open I really hear bits of Empire State Of Mind coming from outside. It’s kind of magical.

I’m back in New York for the semester after a lot of bouncing around (Pearlstone, Vancouver, St Louis, Farrar, New Orleans, and the shortest trip to Toronto ever), and my first day back was a sunny day. I biked into Manhattan and back again, stopping to buy veggies and fish in Chinatown. I love the smell of chinatown(s)! It’s such a familiar constant, despite the city it’s in.

Okay, semester: full speed ahead.

change and planning

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on November 17, 2009
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change and planning, originally uploaded by dorywithserifs.

Quote passed along through the lovely lauren, does anyone know where it’s from, though?

kids with wings

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on November 8, 2009
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kids with wings, originally uploaded by dorywithserifs.

Beautiful day in Brooklyn! Brunch at Chavellas and a ramble in Prospect Park with Zach and Jess–we discovered the Audubon Centre where we pet snakes and cockaroaches and played with catfish puppets. They had these wings you could try on and these two kids really enjoyed being birds (there was also a grown man struggling a bit to get into the bat wings).

the North Brooklyn Blogger’s Banquet

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on August 17, 2009
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I sometimes think that it’s silly that I live in New York because I don’t really care about all the stuff that goes on. A really good day for me is about bike rides, coffee, and making and eating food with good people. It’s not even that I’m content to miss some world-famous DJ spinning in some club–I don’t even know that it’s happening and I’ve never heard of the dude.

It’s a good thing that I live here though, because there are lots of good people who want to make food and hang out and dance around the kitchen and debate the merits of zucchini versus summersquash while shelling peas and drinking bottles of Brooklyn Lager.

I appreciate it when these nights are informal and spontaneous, but a little while ago a group of very wonderful North Brooklyn friends and I started plotting and planning about something a little more structured. This group of friends includes photobloggers (Jake, Tanveer, and Joe), comicbloggers (Kenan), breadbloggers (Liz), food+bakingbloggers (Cate), and all-sorts-of-everything-bloggers (me and Emily)–so the logical conclusion was an over-blogged dinner party: The North Brooklyn Blogger’s Banqut (NB3)!

an annotated picture of salad

(photo courtesy of Tanveer Badal, annotations courtesy of me)

Inspired by Mark Bittman’s recent article about salads, I put together the watermelon-tomato-basil-goat feta salad pictured above. I picked up most of the ingredients on saturday at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket and the Park Slope Food Coop, and got the watermelon from Nam’s* on Sunday on my way up to Greenpoint (to Liz & Joe’s) for the event.

THEN: we shucked corn and shelled favabeans and snapped photos and danced around eachother in the kitchen and stirred and baked and put things in the oven and we used all the knives and bowls and cutting boards and we rearranged things in the fridge and took things out of the oven and we stirred and took more photos and peered in the the neighbours backyard and got caught in a rainstorm and drank rose and played with some puppies and made a mess and cleaned it up.

prepping in Liz and Joe's kitchen
Photo by Joe

And then we ate dinner.

And now we’re talking about doing it again before the end of the summer. The same principles will probably apply: no spectators. Well, no spectators at the event, only afterward. Read everyone’s takes on the evening!

watch out, tanveer!

*I don’t love Nam’s like the dude who writes I Love Franklin Avenue loves Nam’s–it’s too pricey and the produce isn’t particularly awesome or plentiful–but I’m glad that it’s there.

…in bed

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on July 4, 2009
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Thanks the the lovely&talented Jake Pritchard. I’m on the internet. And so are other people. Take a look.

(10 points if you can find Infinite Jest in the shot)

brooklyn concrete

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on June 25, 2009
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brooklyn concrete, originally uploaded by dorywithserifs.

So I’m moving, from Williamsburg to Prospect Heights. The new neighbourhood bar that I will be able to call my own is Franklin Park–a big open space with picnic tables and good beer. I am pleased. On my first trip there the other night after picking up keys, I noticed this plaque in the concrete floor. Home!

infinite summer

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on June 25, 2009
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infinite jest, originally uploaded by dorywithserifs.

Okay world, now is the time that I make the same promise I make every summer: I am going to finish Infinite Jest.

It’s going to happen this time: it’s Infinite Summer.

And then I’ll move on to the pre-phd reading list.

New Design!

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on June 15, 2009
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Hello world, RSS reading-humans, and the like…

New blog design, and now time for bed.

new york state

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four more, originally uploaded by dorywithserifs.

A few weekends ago, we got in the car, drove up route 17, ate at a diner or two, hung out in Buffalo, went to Wilson, looked at Toronto from the other side of the lake, bought junk a flea market, ate barbecued things for memorial day, and then drove back to New York.

mending

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on June 4, 2009
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there are lots of holes in the elbows of my sweaters! I have lots of mending to do.

We present to you: Ozzy!

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on May 3, 2009
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We present to you: Ozzy!, originally uploaded by dorywithserifs.

stripes for your feet

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on March 30, 2009
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I’ve been working a pair of ugly socks. I’m using up all my scraps of sock yarn from projects past, switchingc colours whenever I feel like it. They’re turning out spectacularly, and I’m really excited to have ‘em done. I think I might actually get 4 or 5 socks out of the project and then I can mix and match.

ugly sock

This photo, on the other hand, is of my favourite sock-shoe combination.

brown campers, striped socks

I’m not being melodramatic, I just think these things are pretty.

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on March 29, 2009
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First, from A Softer World:
heartbreak looses all meaning
And this, from Mia Nolting:
you hurt me with your silence

Get ‘er done, part 2.

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on March 4, 2009
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dory cutting
This is me on the floor of Emily’s apartment, cutting out squares of fabric. In December.

I’ve posted about this before, also in December, this secret project that will be sure to amaze and delight its intended recipient. I was going to have it done before the new year!

Clearly, that didn’t happen.

I mean, there’s this
one more square
but that’s hardly a whole quilt. And most of it is still in squares on the sewing table.

I’m using the Crafty Slacker challenge as motivation to get it done before the deadline of March 16. Possibly irrational, but I organized the piles of tiny squares and pinned some of them together and now I want to see them sewn together so badly that I think it’s truly possible.

Projects! I want more of them! And I want to Get Them Done! Yes!

add abraham as a friend?

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on January 30, 2009
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add abraham as a friend?, originally uploaded by dorywithserifs.

Facebook is silly

january 20th, 2009

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jan20.2009, originally uploaded by dorywithserifs.

bear rock

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bear rock, originally uploaded by dorywithserifs.

I had a really nice time in BC over my winter break. I really like my friends, and the ocean, especially in tandem.

Just who do you think you are?

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on October 11, 2008
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  1. ###### ##### grew up in North Vancouver and is now a stalwart resident of East Vancouver. He grumbles while working, but actually has an earnest joy for most things that betray the fundamental creativity of human beings. He likes problems solving, beautiful code, index cards, bicycles, things printed on actual paper and most things made before 1978. As a programmer, ###### prefers to make things web-facing, because that’s where most of the interesting stuff is happening today. He firmly believes that most things can and should be automated, but also believes that a good user interface is essential to creating a workflow that keeps people happy. His current favourite working environments are Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Linux and MySql.
  2. ##### ##### is from Vancouver and/or Toronto, depending on when you ask her. She likes public space, mason jars, pyrex bowls, country music, Canadian spelling, and subverting post-industrial capitalism through baking bread, growing vegetables, and knitting at meetings. She moved to Brooklyn with 3 typewriters, 2 bicycles, one sewing machine, and a box of spatulas. Someday she would like to be known as the City Councilor who put a garden on the roof of city hall. She is rather fond of lists.

Writing bios is a under appreciated art form and a fun game. Sum yourself up or someone up and I’ll guess who you are!