Nico's Room
May 10-16:
End of semester brunch at Morning Sun
rainy day library grading session
Six month anniversary date with roses and The Great Gatsby!
Tony’s graduation celebration dinner at his parents’
Sendoff show at Steph’s
Mother’s Day brunch
LA 2013: Beverly Hills, Santa Monica Ferris wheel, dinner with Vivian’s family, Long Beach exploring, Annenberg Space for Photography - War/Photography exhibit & Lyndsy Addorno lecture
Weekend Wishlist:
USC commencement
Pasadena night with Vivian
making my way back to Ohio

May 10-16:

  • End of semester brunch at Morning Sun
  • rainy day library grading session
  • Six month anniversary date with roses and The Great Gatsby!
  • Tony’s graduation celebration dinner at his parents’
  • Sendoff show at Steph’s
  • Mother’s Day brunch
  • LA 2013: Beverly Hills, Santa Monica Ferris wheel, dinner with Vivian’s family, Long Beach exploring, Annenberg Space for Photography - War/Photography exhibit & Lyndsy Addorno lecture

Weekend Wishlist:

  • USC commencement
  • Pasadena night with Vivian
  • making my way back to Ohio
May 3-9
  • dinner at Melt and poetry reading at Wordplay
  • Farmer’s Market!
  • College Hill Coffee Co. working 
  • Monday brunch, student meeting, library working
  • Clifton working, lunch at the original Skyline Chili
  • Finishing the seminar papers, portfolios, & students’ grades
  • Thrifting trip to Fairfield & West Chester
  • Arts & crafts: my record cupcake stands!

Weekend Wishlist: 

  • 6 months anniversary date: The Great Gatsby!
  • Coconut-lemon cupcakes!
  • Tony’s graduation & parties
  • LA trip!
April 26-May 3

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  • Tony’s Glee Club show & bagels with his aunt Eileen 
  • Overnight French Toast Casserole 
  • Last week of school work ethnic!
  • Last day of teaching! 
  • Half birthday balloon release
  • Banana Sunday Cupcakes!
  • English department awards ceremony 
  • Second-year creative writers’ showcase
  • Postcolonial aliens
  • Fiesta Charra dessert date 

Weekend Wishlist:

  • Cincinnati poetry
  • drafting, revising, finishing final seminar papers and first-year portfolios
  • Farmer’s Market
April 19-25

  • Kenyon Trip! 
    Brittney’s Birthday Party
    VI & Cove Reminiscing 
    Bookstore tea & coffee
    Campus touring and the new Horvitz Hall
    Friends! 
    Pink Cupcakes & Sips
  • Lunch at Chuchay’s with Ivonne! 
  • Granville coffee & walking with Tony & Kyle
  • Workworkwork
  • MEGAA/Staff appreciation lunch & Blueberry Lemon cupcakes 
  • Dissertation Symposium
  • Be Heard filming 

Weekend Wishlist:

  • Workworkworkworkworkwork, paper writing
  • Tony’s Glee Club concert and dessert date
April 12-18

  • Mung bean dinner & writing with Suey
  • Edwin’s poetry reading + Waffle House with friends
  • Tony’s Glee Club concert at the Oxford Community Arts Center 
  • Kona Bistro dinner with Tony, Suey, Julianne, & Julian 
  • Pre-interview with Cherith, details TBA
  • Success: Spanish classes on the books & meet enrollment minimum! 
  • Final OxMag reading
  • Poem in your pocket day
  • The Invisible War documentary screening

Weekend Wishlist:

  • Kenyon! 
  • Brittney’s birthday party
  • Pink cupcakes
  • Filipino food with Ivonne
  • Seminar paper progress
  • Student creative projects
April 5-11

  • Spring Clothing Swap with Hummingbird Cupcakes and Nutella Buttercream frosting
  • Erin’s birthday outing at Circle Bar 
  • Applewood town house showing + lease signing 
  • park reading & sunning & tea drinking
  • Spring Street Treats ice cream date 
  • Chris Coake fiction reading + Corpse Flower
  • Fingers crossed: submission to the City Wide NYC Theater and Performance conference
  • 5-month Kona Bistro dinner date :)
  • Col. Malay visit to my first-year war stories class
  • Thursday night blogging at Kofenya with Suey

Weekend Wishlist

  • Tony’s poetry reading 
  • Waffle House 
  • Findlay Market 
  • paper, blog, annotated bibliography writing
March 29 - April 5

  • Home adventures: breakfast twindate, Biggby working, Filipino Easter, visit to Grandma
  • Easter night Chinese dinner in Oxford with Tony 
  • Fingers crossed for my submission to a/b: Auto/biography Studies
  • work work work
  • Obnoxious hamburger dinner with Suey at 45 East
  • Helvetica documentary screening + discussion
  • Kashmir historical presentation
  • ODA’s Spring Etiquette Dinner & Business Wear Fashion Show
  • Thursday night roses

Weekend Wishlist

  • House/spring cleaning
  • New house shopping
  • Spring Clothing Swap 
  • Erin’s birthday week celebrating
  • Annotating bibliographies
  • Planning English department teach-in on social media and difference
  • Summer course planning
March 22-28
  • MEGAA Symposium presentation: “Biopolitical Dictatorship: (Non)Citizenship Under the Marcos Regime”
  • Tony the Tiger’s Funky Jambalaya!
  • Library productivity & Saturday sunshine
  • Sunday soup & studying
  • Monday Hamilton errands, new lipstick, & apple fritters
  • Class & meetings cancelled = Leisurely Tuesday lunch!
  • Cracking India & sexual violence discussion led in Postcolonial Studies class
  • Fingers crossed for my submission to The Feminist Wire! Details TBA.

Weekend wishlist:

  • Mac-ing with Amanda
  • Twindate
  • Costco
  • Filipino Easter
  • Biggby! & productivity
March 15-21
  • workworkwork
  • Lunch with Tony, Akï, and visiting from NY Steve at Patterson’s
  • College Hill Coffee Company work session & dinner 
  • Phan Shin dinner
  • Tuesday “Let’s Talk” dialogue about social media & diversity
  • Wednesday: Miss bus. Walk from Library to Kroger. Buy Cheetos & English muffins. 
  • Visiting prospective graduate students’ meet & greet and OxMag reading
  • Cesar Chavez Celebration Program lecture

Weekend Wishlist:

  • MEGAA Symposium
  • Funky Jambalaya dinner
  • Productivity 
March 8-14

  • Music recital date
  • Saturday studying session at Kofenya; pancake + spicy chicken and cabbage dinner collaboration with Suey
  • Sunday studying & blogging with Suey
  • Roadtrip to Nashville! 
  • Detour to Maker’s Mark
  • Nashville exploring, Country Music Hall of Fame, Gigi’s cupcakes, Miami friends, Jack Daniel’s 
  • Workworkwork

Weekend Wishlist:

  • College Hill Coffee Co. 
  • Productivity
  • Rest
March 1-7
  • Mung beans & Samosa double dinner date with Suey and Julian, 9 Circles, all of the dessert at MIA!
  • Saturday and Sunday anti-social productivity 
  • Sarah Murnen’s “Bros & Hos” talk at Miami! 
  • Risky shopping adventure with Alex and Brenna for Alex’s pants, my computer charger, and Auntie Anne’s pretzels
  • $85 into the Apple-opoly
  • Snowstorm
  • Led seminar discussion on Dogeaters, time and narrative confusion, and Martial Law
  • Steinkeller dinner & Shock Top Honeycrisp Apple Wheat Beer - spring must be just around the corner!
  • Cupcakes!
  • Culinary adventure: Whiskey Chicken pasta with mushrooms
  • Cinnamon Rolls & tea with Suey & Julianne 
  • MLA Conference 2014 - Asian American Lit Division proposal submitted 

Weekend Wishlist

  • SPA DAY
  • Musical recital 
  • Cleaning thee apartment
  • Independent academic things (nerd!)
  • Nashville prepping :)
February 22-28

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  • Costco date!
  • Northside - dinner at The Comet + Dana Ward poetry reading at NVISION
  • Sara’s birthday party in Cincy
  • A/IHOP
  • Soup and Bread Brunch with Suey, Julianne, Ara, & Tony + Oxford Coffee Shop studying & photo shoot
  • OxfordAsians fiasco meetings, interview by The Oxford Townie
  • #powertrip: kicked a student out of class for not bringing a draft or laptop to peer response day. 
  • 9 Circles panel discussion + 1809 room dinner + Oxmag reading 
  • Jungle Jim’s trip with Suey! 
  • Bratwurst & sauerkraut dinner by Tony  

Weekend Wishlist:

  • 9 Circles
  • postcolonial casserole
  • fancy double date dessert + drinks celebration with Suey + Julian
  • workworkworkFilipinoresearch
February 15-21
  • Oxford Coffee Shop working 
  • Tony’s Glee Club performance
  • Fancy nachos & peach wine 
  • Skype date & celebration with Twin David
  • Culinary adventure: Chicken Adobo!
  • Akï’s birthday potluck
  • Late night taco bell sunday
  • Teamwork lunch & coffee with Suey
  • Bad day, lazy day Tuesday
  • Cyndi Wu’s talk on Chang & Eng Reconnected + lunch with her on Wednesday
  • Quarter Barrel dinner with Poets
  • Open Mic at Kofenya
  • @OxfordAsians fiasco
  • Thursday night dinner of White Turkey Chili and jalepeño and cheddar scones

Weekend wishlist

  • Coffee with Sarah
  • COSTCO DATE
  • Cincinnati Poetry Reading 
  • SOUP
  • Cincinnati Birthday Party
February 8-14
  • LEXINGTON TRIP: BabyCakes, deSha’s, Shakespeare & Co, THE BAND PERRY AND RASCAL FLATTS, The Village Idiot, The Lunch Box


  • Saturday Double Date at Riverbank Cafe with Suey & Julian
  • ABC SUNDAY BRUNCH
  • Tuesday spa day
  • VALENTINE’S DAY: Dinner at Kona Bistro, exchange of fabulous gifts, Nicole & Maggie’s Cupcake Party 

Weekend Wishlist:

  • Tony’s Glee Club concert 
  • Strawberries & cupcake shells & peach wine 
  • Aki’s potluck birthday party 
  • Jungle Jim’s & Costco
  • Workworkworkgradingworkworkwork
February 1-7
  • AWESOME presentation on the Asian comfort women and PTSD at the Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Symposium
  • 80’s party
  • Center for the Performing Arts Wine Tasting
  • Personal Day of shopping at Party City, Target, Goodwill, and studying at Panera
  • OxMag Reading & drinks at Mac & Joe’s
  • Cary Wolfe talk on Biopolitics of Animal Bodies
  • Peter Orner reading of Love and Shame and Love 

Weekend Wishlist 

  • Rascal Flatts in Lexington
  • Riverside Cafe fancy triple date
  • ABC Brunch
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