Feb 2nd, 2012
my flow of mental musings, while typically frantic and frequent, has recently seen a sudden increase. so i am coming back to karinaversus. whaddup (all three of you) readers! i have also decided that this post will not be about the following things: 1) war 2) violence 3) suddenly realizing that i am in the [...]
Aug 12th, 2011
my most recent entry, about my inability to function like a normal, intelligent human being and stupidly placing a hard-boiled egg in a carton of non-boiled eggs, was a pathetic attempt to write or think about something other than the (god damn) middle east and netanyahu’s (god damn) settlement expansions and the (god damn) arab [...]
Aug 5th, 2011
recent events may attest to my relative smartness. i have managed to obtain a paid internship after only a month of an unpaid internship, proving that i am successfully ascending the ladder of non-governmental-progressive-exploitation. i wrote an article that a middle east blog ran. HOWEVER, this morning, i canceled out all potential intelligence that i [...]
Jun 26th, 2011
san francisco to denver to washington+72 hours=an overpriced but beautiful apartment in a city that has already taught me a whole lot about gentrification, humidity, air conditioning and…did i mention humidity. in typical karinaversus fashion, this post begins with the weather. in the last two weeks i graduated from college, purchased a business-casual wardrobe and [...]
Jun 2nd, 2011
it’s spring quarter and freezing. june 1st began with sunshine that slipped into pouring rain, hail, thunder, lightning, scattered showers, and then cold sun. i don’t know what it is about the weather but it always makes me want to write. perhaps i was a meteorologist in a past life, although i still have trouble [...]