Welcome to Eat-Mangos.com
It all started when my friends Liz, Julia, Emma, and I decided to go sit on a blanket on the grass.
We brought with us some books, a guitar, peach soda, and dried mangos. Out of these and sunlight was born the name, if not the idea, for this website. The idea came later, on the beach somewhere, out of an article from the Santa Cruz Good Times and the lyrics to a song I was composing. I wanted to make a website about the simple things. I wanted to write something really really honest, about the everyday.
Now, I have been writing for as long as I remember. From elementary school journal, to travel logs, to poems to LiveJournal and notes posted on Facebook, my room and my Documents folder are a conglomeration of more words than you can imagine: most of which, lucky for you, will remain forever out of public eye.
But then, there is this site.
This is first of all a personal site, a journal, with a few side projects thrown in. This weblog is a response to the world of Facebook and Myspace, and the notion that we can tell the world “about us” just by filling out a set of “interests” and “activities,” and “friending” cute boys so they can write on our “walls” and help us feel loved. No! If you want to write on my wall, you should buy a paintbrush (especially if you are a cute boy). I believe that to know about someone, it is not enough to know how that person perceives themselves. Rather, we need to understand how they perceive the world, what it is they find intriguing, what they fear, what fascinates them, what their everyday is like. So this is a weblog about this beautiful and confusing, sometimes wonderful world; or at least the way I see it.
I am a junior at Vassar College. Eat-Mangos is a celebration of all things ordinary, and the sometimes extraordinary things that happen along the way. Thanks to each and every one of you for reading!
(P.S. Mangos is not spelled wrong. It is a viable alternative spelling to the more commonly used “mangoes,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary. And they’re British–they know.)
Est. July 13, 2008
All content is copyright 2010 Nina Vyedin.
I love you, my Nina.
Hey Nina!!!!
Great website!!!! Lovely postings!!!! Keep it up!!!!
i love you nina. you rock for doing this!!
nina, i love you
Nina, just stumbled across this aite again. I wanted to say that what you wrote in the paragraph that goes “This weblog is a response to the world of Facebook…” to “…what their everyday is like” is so beautiful that I’ve read it several times.
You inspire me.
Miss you—so sad I didn’t see you when I came back to visit vassar the other week.
-Jen (from cog sci)
N. – It is so strange to hear you speak without actual words being said. To know you without knowing you, in a place that is no place, but wonderful all the same.
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You dare to laugh!
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