among friends

As in “Emmett Till times Anne Frank.” Read the rest of this entry »

I’m sad.

We love Nao. And her Star Wars hat.

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Your favorite Bustamante is cooking up some curative art n craft tomorrow in the campus center. 11am-4pm. There will be edibles!

I gotta dash off to breakfast in the Coop with Harrell, but here’s some pics from the among friends parties in James House last weekend.

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A sewing party.

A million thanks to Rebecca Church, who lent us two sewing machines and figured out how to make the pouches.

We got our prototype for the heart gel pack pouches from Nao last week, and started out the third quarter festively with sewing parties Tuesday and Wednesday nights. With five borrowed sewing machines,amazing expert sewers, and regular folk to do the cutting and gluing, we pulled it off. We thought we might need a third sewing party (who doesn’t love a party?), but Jane and Hannah stayed late into the night Wednesday to finish off 55 pouches.

Thursday night I was all set to return the sewing machines. But Facilities Management was closed and couldn’t drive me, so I had to return them by wheelbarrow. Giant wheelbarrow. If you ever need one, check the shack behind Gummere. If you were one of the people who saw me huffing across campus Thursday night dragging a wheelbarrow decked with sewing machines…now you know why.

Come by our Comfort Station in the Campus Center, Thursday 11:00-4:00, to see the fruits of our labors.

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Bi-Co Mix CD Party
Friday, March 20th, 9 p.m.

Did you participate in the Bi-Co Mix CD Exchange? Wish you had participated? Now that the exchange is over, join Mawrtyrs and Fords in James House for a party celebrating the mixes we made for each other.

Big Birthday Party
Saturday, March 21st, 9 p.m.

Do you know Emily Carton, Sydney Keough, Hilary Schwartz, Julia Ryan, Cristina Smith, or Laura Zipin? Join us in James House to celebrate all their birthdays! Bring presents, because this is their birthday party.

among friends is coming next week!

whoa man, Jen Delos Reyes is flying into philly tonight. prepare yourself for a week and and a half of relational aesthetics awesomeness, and stay tuned for more news on the Remaking “Rumours” project.

I just can’t help myself.

I went to a high school, actually the oldest public high school in the country, where a “classical” education was not only valued, but required. We took four years of latin (it used to be six years, then five years…) and learned all about Julius Caesar and his downfall on the Ides of March. We learned about the brothers, Romulus and Remus, and how Romulus literally stabbed Remus in the back. As much as I hate on my high school, I secretly sort of love these geeky holidays.

My high school

Here’s more geeky stuff, for your enjoyment:

blog.wired.com/geekdad/2009/03/10-annoying-hab.html

And here’s an article to help you through this fateful day:

jezebel.com/5170248/things-to-beware-of-on-the-ides-of-march

I read Sara Corbett’s “Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar” in The New York Times Magazine over break and thought it was pretty interesting. Read the rest of this entry »

This is the first time since high school that I have used a glue stick or cut a bunch of things out of a piece of paper. Read the rest of this entry »