So, here I am – 5:41pm on Halloween – waiting patiently by the door with the lights on and a big bowl of Chupa Chups (super-yummy lollies) beside me. waiting. and waiting. and waiting. What’s wrong? this is primo trick-or-treating hour!! I am dying to give away all these Chupa Chups!!! I fear the worst [...]
Freud in the Pampas: The Emergence and Development of a Psychoanalytic Culture in Argentina “The book reveals the unique conditions and complex historical process that made possible the diffusion, acceptance, and popularization of psychoanalysis in Argentina, which has the highest number of psychoanalysts per capita in the world.” “…counter to the anti-Freudian backlash that has [...]
I never really appreciated long weekends until I was working full-time for a while. It is really a wonderful thing to have two sundays in one week! One sunday to be lazy and order in pizza and sleep off the remains of saturday night. Another sunday to be productive and do all those things that [...]
After speaking to a hundred different people every day five days a week, they start to smear into each other. Every one sounds just the same as the last; demanding things, evading questions, shouting, mumbling, misunderstanding. I can hardly hear their words because of the din in the background. But today, there was a man [...]
so for our writing assignment which is due this week, the instructor took back his threat of a sonnet, and instead asked us to write a poem which is sixteen lines long. {i still think it’s a dumb restriction, but whatever} Here’s what I wrote: the shadows grow my soul hides away where should I [...]
“The place seemed curiously uninhabited. An odd house the more I looked at it. It wasn’t particularly inhospitable or cold, nor built in any unusual way, nor even much in disrepair. It was just…odd. As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn’t know how [...]
Last night I dreamed that I was working in the fanciest vegetarian restaurant in cork with our friends who own the garden centre. they were running the restuarant, and I was helping them cook and running around getting stuff and talking to people. there was an expedition that needed to be done as part of [...]
