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6 Mar 2010
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Peace, Boston.

On my list of travel-related things to look forward to post-thesis:

A much delayed New York visit to drop off Hamlet before spring break! Naturally, I will be making the pilgrimage to Beacon’s Closet, my personal Mecca.
Spring break, which will entail no electricity or wifi. For serious. I’m going to Tulum, Mexico, where I will scale the Mayan pyramids and take lots of bikini photos and maybe ever learn how to swim. Maybe.
A trip to Cornell, where I’ll be talking sex blogging on April 1st. (Followed immediately by another New York visit, ‘cause why the heck not?) After this, Princeton will be the only Ivy I haven’t visited.

And that’s it! I probably won’t leave town again for the rest of the semester, since this is my last chance to fully indulge in being a college student. I really look forward to getting shit-faced with friends for the remainder of senior spring.

5 Feb 2010
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I don’t usually think of Los Angeles as a pretty city.

Photo credit: Patrick Hamm

5 Feb 2010
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The vividness of the images comes from Patrick’s Leica M6, a fully manual camera.

Photo Credit: Patrick Hamm

5 Feb 2010
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I was walking to Little Tokyo with my friends Gracye and Lisa, who Patrick and I retrieved from our end of Asian suburbia. (Gracye’s home in California is a mere 20 minutes from mine.)

Photo credit: Patrick Hamm

5 Feb 2010
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Patrick took some amazing photos after our MOCA visit in LA. It was horrendous weather, and by the end of the pouring rain, both we and downtown were drenched. The city lights and the wetness combined to create the streaky, colorful backdrop above.

Photo Credit: Patrick Hamm

3 Feb 2010
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Installation by Günther Uecker. Five scrolls representing the major world religions.

Photo credit: Patrick Hamm

3 Feb 2010
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At the Günther Uecker exhibition in Osnabrück’s Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche. He was at the exhibition signing posters, one of which I now have. A couple weeks later, I ran into another piece of his at the MOCA in Los Angeles. (I was quite pleased that I had acquired the expertise to recognize his work.)

Photo credit: Patrick Hamm

26 Jan 2010
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HURRAY! This is the face of victory. Isn’t this key an awesome token of cross-continental affection?

Thanks, Tara!

26 Jan 2010
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Step 1: Read the directions

Step 2: Locate Lifeguard Tower 13

Step 3: Zone in on the exact site

Step 4: Dig for treasure

Step 5: Emerge triumphant

Step 6: Admire the prize

My blockmate Tara led me on a treasure hunt of sorts in Los Angeles. The goal: to find a gift she left for me in the city. This sent me to Santa Monica Pier, where I followed her directions to the site of my buried surprise.

How did our strange little game come about? When I was in Berlin for New Year’s, I narrowly missed her arrival, so I hid something in Charlottenburg for her to find. Unfortunately, it was already gone when she got there. She knew I was coming to Los Angeles (where she lived and will be living post-Berlin), so we made a second attempt at a gift exchange. This time, we were successful!