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Emilie

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About Me

“However, after a sleepless night in 1658, he anonymously offered a prize for the quadrature of a cycloid.”

My Interests

The Standard Model. The Very Large Telescope. Bears who can talk. Construction sites, and the metal-beams therein. Revolutions Orange and Cedar. I like Rodin. I do. Victor Yuschenko, Elizabeth Bishop, Edna St.Vincent Millay, Philip Larkin, Philip Levine, George Eliot, E.M Forster, Somerset Maugham, Alice Munro, J.M Coetzee, Anne Sexton, Flannery O’Connor, Jane Smiley, Henrik Ibsen, Jacek Malczewski, Howard Nemerov, Rainer Maria Rilke, Christopher Hitchens, Thom Gunn, A.E Stallings, Mark Helprin, some Sharon Olds, but not all of it, some Louise Glück, but not all of it, Camille Claudel, but not all of it, Whittaker Chambers, Annie Dillard, Keith and Kathy, Nick Sarah Andy Matt Ben Carrie, Maddy Ava Drew Dominic, “Pied Beauty”, “Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore”, the word “cerulean”, the word “clemency”, the word “thicket”, the word “palimpsest”, when people say “That’s the ticket!”, when people say, "Yes, you may borrow my scissors", the Clanswilliam cedar, the sewing of button eyes, the people and when they uprise and all. Belarus. Lewis and Clark. I’m sort of wildly entertained by the concept of the Louisiana Purchase in general. And by the phrase “Manifest Destiny”. And the phrase “Secretary of the Interior”. I’d love to be the Secretary of the Interior. For the record, the current Secretary of the Interior is a man named DIRK KEMPTHORNE. Dirk Kempthorne: why do you have both the life and the name of my waking dreams? That Mary Oliver poem, where she says: “Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight”. True that, Mary Oliver. True that. I think Peyton Manning is a real sweetie pie.

Television:

Toby Ziegler.

Books:

"Einstein's Dreams": dreamy. I love the nature of time, don't you?

Heroes:


Votin’.

My Blog

Dear life, holding onto it

The past week of my life has been the scene of some majoralmost comically majorupheaval. I’ve been surprised every morning to wake up and find myself still in bed, and not, say, crashed onto t...
Posted by Emilie on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:57:00 PST

The universe, some other things

Yesterday morning, I fell over on the bus. This is not unusual, as I often fall over, every day, but I also cracked my head against a metal barviolentlyas I seated myself in the corner of the back r...
Posted by Emilie on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:36:00 PST

I learned.

This morning, coming into work, I suddenly remembered a Really Beautiful Moment From My Life that took place some weeks back. I not infrequently see the same people on my commute. One of those people...
Posted by Emilie on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:40:00 PST

The best of times with Ma and Pa

My parents were in town this weekend, and it was very nice. Their purpose was two-fold: So that my father could interview some peopleSo that my mother could effect a design transformation up...
Posted by Emilie on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:34:00 PST

Lunarial, and yes: I know that’s not a word

In the middle of last week, there was a lunar eclipse. As you might imagine, I was delirious with happinessand if you're unable to imagine that, I think you meant to read Gremilie Dyberg's blog, and ...
Posted by Emilie on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:16:00 PST

Apparently I am susceptible to race cars

Yesterday morning Ilong storyhad to break a 20. I betook myself into the little shop inside my train station to do so, and after deliberating over what to buygum? HoHos?I decided to buy this lotte...
Posted by Emilie on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:14:00 PST

A poem for Valentine’s Day that will rock you to your core, if you have a core, that is

The poem below is on Slate right now, and I read it for the first time earlier this week. It's&well, read it. I've been sending it to everyone I've ever met. And I decided that the title alone clearly...
Posted by Emilie on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:14:00 PST

The taking of trips

This weekendwell, for like 24 hoursI went to Milwaukee for the very first time. Bridgid and I went to see our dear friend Joel, who's concluding his year-long tour with "The Lion King" there, and to...
Posted by Emilie on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:16:00 PST

Lenty

It's that special, special time of year once more&Lent! Hooray! I was duly ashed this morning, by someone considerably shorter than myself. I politely bent down a bit to allow them to daub earth on my...
Posted by Emilie on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:56:00 PST

The state of things

THE GOOD I finally, finally unearthed my bright red umbrella this morning. La la laaaaa! This red umbrella is my sole reason for ever being okay with walking in cold, slanty rain [instead of havin...
Posted by Emilie on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:39:00 PST