I am awake, right now, so late because—can you guess? Come on, I thought you knew me better than that. I have an early plane flight! Why else would I be awake? Oh, right, I stay awake this late all the time when I have work to do. Um, okay, moving on to my actual [...]
I don't quite know what to say. Life here is both focused and calm. We each have our daily rhythms and goals and coast happily along through the breezy morning and scorching afternoons and balmy evenings. I am working—I am billing hours—but at any point could skip off to enjoy the beach a bit more. [...]
Where can you find him? Tonight, or this morning, rather, and indeed at this very moment, Andrew d'Avis is laying awake in a tiny, hard bed on Christmas Day. You only find Andrew d'Avis on the East Coast and most specifically in Hamilton, Massachusetts. In a cold creaky bedroom, with ceilings so low that he [...]
I have a tenuous relationship with brioche, that indulgent, fattening French bread—a bread which Wikipedia describes as "highly enriched". Highly enriched, for the layperson, means "having a 1 to 1 ratio of butter and eggs to flour." My mother, in contrast, is some sort of brioche magician. She seemed to conjure golden and perfectly-risen loaves [...]
Listen to "With Arms Outstretched" by Rilo Kiley I spent the final week of August with my family—my parents Melanie and Federico and my sister Nicole and her fiancé Mark—at a small cabin on a lake in New Hampshire. As we do every year, we swam and read and cooked and ate and talked and [...]
This year, this so-called 2008, has not been an easy one. Life shows no sign of easing up, slowing down, taking it easy. So it goes. I lost a friend in February—Jordan Taggart was one of my first friends at Harvey Mudd and lived solidly at the core of me, Matty, Mike, Yip and others [...]
I totally own Google for "Carlos d'Avis" (see results) and for "Drew d'Avis" (see results) and I am even at number one for "Carlos Drew" and "Andrés d'Avis." I am lacking a bit in other regards. The first result for "Andrew d'Avis" is about me but doesn't lead to this website. More significantly, I think, [...]
