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[threeplusfire]

Fan-fucking-tastic day.

Melynda and I woke up to get our hair cuts. We are now beautiful short haired women, and it was an absolutely lovely day. Gorgeous weather. Lunch at La Madeline, potato gallette and strawberries romanoff, and then to Metro for cards and coffee. Now we're watching Gosford Park.

And I have had so many damn good moments of conversation today.

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[seitvonzu.livejournal.com]

i miss la madeline. for a chain, it is some darn fine eating.

we had a houseguest this weekend that was on her way to austin for a week ... she asked if there was anything not to miss and all i could think of were bluebonnets and restaurants! a couple fridays ago when my mother forced me to skip meat cause it's lent all i could think of were thundercloud subs avacodo sandwiches!!! of course, that would be a no go to, since i gave up avacados and pretend it was for lent :)

also amy's ice cream. i thought "i would like to be at the arboretum finishing my sandwich and planning my crushin/icecream." it is a miracle that i'm not 500 pounds! :)

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

For the sheer amount of scrumptious stuff in town to eat, it's amazing we all aren't sprawled out groaning from our aching bellies. ;)

The bluebonnets are very beautiful right now.

[seitvonzu.livejournal.com]

So i have heard from others too :(

my b. was in texas this weekend and said he didn't get to see any bluebonnets but that his nana had seen some starting at least... she lives in north texas, so maybe that's why. he did take some texas dirt back to kansas with him though!

[gadjo-dilo.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I've never been there, and it sounds GOOD. What's the cross street on Lamar? I think I'd better check it out.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

It's between 34th and 37th, I believe.

I've been meaning to ask you, are you a student of Professor Pichova's?

[gadjo-dilo.livejournal.com]

No, would love to study Czech, but I don't. She guest-lectured in my intro to Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies course and I've attended a few events she's organized, and I think she seems like an excellent teacher, although I'm sure she has no idea who I am. :) One of my colleagues in CREEES is a student of hers, though, and so is another woman I've befriended in Slavic.

Have you studied with her?

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Ahh. I was speaking with her recently and she mentioned a student she knew who was studying Romani and I thought it might be you.

Professor Pichova was one of the biggest influences on my life in the past three years, both in academia and in my personal life. She is a great professor and a good friend of mine. If you ever have the chance to take one of her courses, go for it.

[gadjo-dilo.livejournal.com]

The person she's referring to is a new friend of mine! :) I'd love to study with Pichova; we'll see if it can work into the next year. I'm trying to get a sense of whether I'm going the Anthro or Soc direction right now, so I'm a little afraid of deviating to do literature, as much as I'd enjoy it. And I imagine that not being a Czech speaker, that's pretty much what I'd have available to me in the way of Pichova classes and/or independent study. That said, though, it's mainly her influence that has made me quite mad to get a hold of a copy of Too Loud A Solitude and other Hrabal.

I also attended a portion of the fall conference on Kundera's reception internationally, and found that quite interesting.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Austin and Livejournal could make the new Six Degrees of Seperation game. ;)

Ahhh Hrabal. She saved my life with Hrabal. Gave me a copy of I served the King of England and sent me home to read, and it really did work. She really just is an amazing teacher.