March 2010
1 post
January 2010
1 post
December 2009
4 posts
some resolutions for the LAST SEMESTER OF COLLEGE...
1. bring my digital SLR back to school and take photos of all the people i love
2. dance more
3. DO STUFF aka STOP BEING LAZY aka LOOKING AT THE INTERNET DOES NOT COUNT AS DOING STUFF
recipes i'm excited to try
ethiopian spicy tomato lentil stew
jerk tofu
ginger roasted winter veggies
spicy sweet potato & coconut soup
spicy eggplant peanut stew
greenlights:
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micro-lending →
decided to finally get my shit together and start helping other people out. i like the idea of supporting women who need help running their own businesses. this woman lives in tanzania, is single with two kids, and needs money to buy supplies for her restaurant. click to lend (as little as $25!) or to check out all the other entrepreneurs on the website!
November 2009
2 posts
“Look man, we’d probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid...”
– David Foster Wallace (in an interview with Larry McCaffery)
October 2009
3 posts
should be reading catcher in the rye.
i just had a really unproductive deviant subcultures class. we read an article on how the label of deviance (which, so far, we’ve talked about in the context of specific religious sects and subcultures) is applied to women in general. and these girls, these SENIORS who are english majors, kept talking about how eye-opening it was, and how TRUE it was that women ARE labeled as deviant, and...
September 2009
1 post
to state the obvious
WRITER’S BLOCK
August 2009
14 posts
a piece of advice for submitting to literary...
no fancy fonts! i want to see only times new roman or helvetica. yes, garamond and courier are lovely, but not for someone who has to read on a laptop all day. it should go without saying that this should be 12 point font, too. and double spaced. the easier something is for me to read, the more likely it is that i will like it.
some news
i have changed my at&t plan to 400 minutes with 5000 night&weekend minutes. the plan was just getting too expensive! and i think i talked for 300 minutes this month so, there you go.
practicing recipes for when i go back to vassar and have to cook for myself (and three other people). on the menu for the next two weeks—to be added to:
stir-fried ginger chicken w/ scallions
veal...
okay fine i do want to have a kid one day. but just one!
July 2009
6 posts
today was a crazy day. got my iphone. got my tattoo. went to see my favorite musician all by myself. basically i spent the whole day alone doing awesome things. and i talked to strangers and they liked me!
i will post pictures soon.
June 2009
9 posts
things i need but cannot afford
haircut
messenger bag
external hard drive
basket for my bike
new pair of jeans
i got twitter
since it’s pretty informal and low key i think i’ll be updating it the most out of all the things i update (tumblr, facebook, lj). already two strangers are following me. is that proper twitter etiquette? i have no idea. i feel like an old person figuring out the internet. if any of you guys have this newfangled thing, follow me so i can follow you: victoriamatsui
so, some things...
to read
i have been compiling a list of books i want to read this summer anytime i see something that catches my eye. here are some of the ones i’m looking forward to the most, so far:
1. Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon
this guy is so cool. i’m reading “nowhere man” right now, and it’s wonderful. he is brilliant and hilarious and didn’t learn english until he...
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“Cats are not stupid, they’re just different”
“I hate confessional memoirs. There are valuable memoirs, no doubt. But you have...”
– Aleksandar Hemon, author of Nowhere Man and The Lazarus Project in an interview with BookForum.
i couldn’t agree with this more.
sometimes reading unsolicited short stories for...
if i read the words “she tucked a lock/strand of hair behind her ear” one more time i will cry. this is one of the most unoriginal and most popular sentences in the english langauge. fuck this sentence. it has been used so many times that it has totally lost any meaning. plus, it’s boring as fuck. so you tucked a piece of hair behind your ear. WHO CARES. what does this tell me...
May 2009
11 posts
dirty projectors - stillness is the move
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