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Schaefer

I go.

About Me


Patrick: You always look like you're climbing a mountain.
Sarah: I am, Patrick. I am.

When I grow old, I'd like to be one of those ladies about whom people say, "She's a neat old lady."

My Interests

Bulldozers, pressure washers, crutches

I'd like to meet:

Thaddeus Blotch.

Music:

The Dardanelles
Need Based Paint
Fields of Industry
Brix and Bottles

Books:

Good Omens, Cat's Cradle, The Giver, The Painting of Modern Life, Kavalier and Clay, House of Leaves, Rabelais and his World, Fragments of Revolution, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, McSweeney's, Lord of the Rings

Heroes:

Steve Schaefer, Chris Schaefer, Emily Schaefer, Katie Schaefer, Brooks Thomas

My Blog

Me + James + foreign insects = Monstrosity worthy of Dante


Posted by Schaefer on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:30:00 PST

LOOK AWAY, I’M HIDEOUS

I haven't yet figured out if Costa Rican insects are vindictively out to get me or have some unnatural obsession with me....
Posted by Schaefer on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:12:00 PST

At last, another dispatch.

Either someone is playing a very abstruse joke on me, or there is another Sarah Schaefer who also started at Columbia this semester. I have now received five Christmas cards, all portraying weirdly pr...
Posted by Schaefer on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:56:00 PST

Pursuing with weary feet...

The time of reconnoitering is drawing very near. This is evident from the following:1. In an effort to keep my Inbox from becoming too cluttered, I tend to archive my emails as soon as soon as it is n...
Posted by Schaefer on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:01:00 PST

Where the streets have too many names...

While for the most part I feel that 75% of me lives in Columbia University and only 25% lives in New York City, there are some things I've learned in the 3 months and 8 days that I've been here:1. In ...
Posted by Schaefer on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:06:00 PST

Art History in 471 words

In recent months, friends and family have asked what exactly it is that I DO. Like, why in God's name am I going to school for another 7-8 years? What are my classes like? And, really, what IS art his...
Posted by Schaefer on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:50:00 PST

Cereal-for-Dinner Days

Some days I'm either too worn or too lazy or both to put any energy into preparing meals for myself or even walking around the corner for a cheap slice of pizza. On these days, I usually fall back on ...
Posted by Schaefer on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:24:00 PST

You’ll pay for your day at Pleasure Island.

Sorry folks, I'm coming up on my one-month anniversary of moving to New York and all I have to show for my time here thus far is one crappy blog post. What a horribly lame person I am. So in these 10 ...
Posted by Schaefer on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:44:00 PST

Everyones my friend in New York City.

I've been limited to sparse communication over the past week, but now here I am again, better informed and acclimated. The move was not without some trials, of course. Buckets of rain, tumbles and bru...
Posted by Schaefer on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:13:00 PST

Final dispatch.

M is for MITTENWas I alone as child in taking the time to read every word printed on a cereal box, including nutrition facts and ingredients? Well, obviously I was I alone...I'm sorry, but all these p...
Posted by Schaefer on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:50:00 PST