Of course!!!

everything you need to know, you learn in kindergarden. out of everything i learned in high school, i should have remembered how to write a simple paper. ABABA – of course!!! so simple.

wake up, laundry, 1h work – ABABA, bike machine, shower, eat, buy cheesecake, go to library, work – A, B, A, A, B, A, A, B, dinner, A, A, B, home

He choose… poorly

How incredibly scary to see your boss turn into a pile of dust. poor girl

Last part of this clip gets me everytime

Louis XV and me

Apparently, i am not suppose to reference anything from Wikipedia, but my trust in opensourced information outweighs haughty conventional dissertation etiquette.

In anycase, during my daily procrastination routine, i was looking up french monarchs (after my interest in Susan  Boyle, that led to Les Miserables, that led to French History, that led to historical gossip, that led to Marie Antoinette, that somehow led to her father-in-law).

According to wikipedia, history has been unkind to Louis XV. He was infact very intelligent; however, “his nagging indecision, fueled by his awareness of the complexity of problems ahead, as well as his profound timidity, hidden behind the mask of an imperious king, may account for the poor results achieved during his reign”

This guy sounds exactly like me

one year 5 months later

its been close to a year and a half since my last visit to Puma. I still keep in touch with my friend, translator, and co-conspirator of the stunted youth soccer and leadership programme. However, our communication is shaky at best. He continues to travel from Puma to Singida town for an hour of internet access. I continue to struggle with succinct articulation of ideas and well wishes.

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For some reason, I cannot finish writing my thesis. And then I came across this:

“in school – from elementary all the way through college, i was generally encouraged to write essays that had a thesis, in which every line was supposed to be in service to the main argument. but that form, by encouraging the writer to begin with a set idea, precludes discovery” – Thomas Beller

Working in Puma had been an exciting time for me. Despite the obvious discomforts (lack of running water and privacy, language barrier, disconnect to the people i love, etc), I was living the life: everyday moment was an act of discovery.

Now, i have to package that wonder and passion into an academic architectural thesis.

I’ve been dragging my feet, fulfilling a self prophecy that no thesis can really embody that sense of discovery I felt more than a year ago. Oh well

love that jazz

“to be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of uniformity and unanimity imposed from above but rather of conflict among diverse groupings that reach a dynamic consensus subject to questioning and criticism. As with a soloist in a jazz quartet, individuality is promoted in order to sustain and increase the creative tension with the group, a tension that yields higher levels of performance to achieve the aim of the collective project”
-cornell west