I've been both privileged and reckless enough to visit several countries on three continents. I've slept on the edge of the Sahara with camels and desert cats and I've grinded & thumped to wild house music in a Cold War bomb bunker in Prague. I once drove up the east coast to Montreal and back… Continue reading Nature
Category: Personal
Service
The American service industry rightfully gets a lot of grief: low pay, discrimination galore, and physical labor without any of the prestige found in other nations. However, for writers and other artists, service industry work can be something of a godsend. Not only are the schedules much more forgiving and even flexible (other workers can often… Continue reading Service
bell
Just devoured bell hooks's memoir Wounds of Passion. Every once in a while, I need a jolt of poet energy to remind me why I've never been able to give up stanza breaks. The relationship between work and the rest of writers' lives in difficult to embody, and more difficult to elucidate. hooks presents these relationships… Continue reading bell
List
I've been busy at my new job making tons of tip money and getting soaked in ice cream (yuck), but I've had several ideas that I will share here: Don't trust people who still act like spoiled children into adulthood. Ain't nobody got time. Buy your friend coffee or a movie ticket and don't write… Continue reading List
Grad
So as you know if you follow my every move via social media, I got a big fat rejection email from the grad program I applied to at the University of Washington. While part of me is surprised--the honors-graduating, essay-planning, highlighter-toting part of me--in many ways, I expected it. My application was viciously progressive, and… Continue reading Grad
Job
Hiring timelines are the worst. I was always under the impression that folks posted hiring memos when they needed a person to start working soon or immediately. I was apparently misinformed. Most of the jobs I've applied to that I'm really excited about have taken weeks to get back to me, if I've even heard… Continue reading Job
White
In the writing center where I used to work, I helped a white student with an anthropology personal statement for graduate school. During our session, as the student was explaining their choice to focus their studies in anthropology--instead of sociology--they said, "Sociology is Anthropology for white people." At the time, I chuckled and continued to… Continue reading White
Communication
I've learned some valuable things in the past few weeks. The most resounding of these is that the immense value that I place on communication does not seem to be valued equally by other people. While acquaintance-social relationships can thrive on the abandonment of serious emotional conversations--and are often actually a relief for those of… Continue reading Communication
Grad School
Everyone thinks I'm going to get into my grad program except me. In preparation for the inevitability of reapplying next year, I am reading Octavia Butler's entire bibliography since I'll write my (nonexistent) master's thesis on her work and Afrofuturism. I worry that grad school would cut into my dramatic network television watching though. Thinking… Continue reading Grad School
I've deactivated my Facebook account. Lots of people that I never want to see again remain my "friends" on the site and that irony is not lost on me. Facebook only reinforces arbitrary markers of friendship and politesse, and my mindset does not allow me to jovially and quietly participate in a consumer-driven, badly designed… Continue reading Facebook
Jesse Rice-Evans 