This is a message to anyone who has time this evening and is interested in critiquing a story that's going to be up for an Honors Thesis application. It's not too too long, and I'd appreciate it so much if someone has time to read. I feel slightly embarrassed having to ask this way, but I feel that it's rather urgent. It's a brand new story; no one ( Read more... )

Well, kind of. But I'm too lazy to give a full summary, so here's the short version ( Read more... )

Writing assignment due today: a story of 1200 words or less, any topic. (We'd been reading Long Story Short, and anthology of 65 North Carolinian writers, edited by Marianne Gingher (my professor).

I went way, way below that limit. Word count: 215. I kind of like it, or at least, I like this version better than an "expanded" version I tried to ( Read more... )

I have been walking with a penny in my left shoe for most of today. I think of it as a good-luck penny, though, because in spite of getting merely three hours of sleep, and in spite of a ridiculous run-back-home-to-do-forgotten-errands trip, I'm still chugging ( Read more... )

I haven't been on here...in forever. Nearly a month. Entirely my fault, I know, because I had ample time and ample subjects to write about, but even when I remembered I still didn't do it. Supreme laziness, I guess ( Read more... )

I love Asia Cafe food. No, that's not it - not everything they have is great - but I love their sesame chicken and kung pao chicken dishes. Yes, I know it's a take-out restaurant, and yes I know it's not real Chinese food, but it's so good and greasy and the kung pao dish is deliciously spicy.

Plus, it reminds me of the times Cytosis and I would eat ( Read more... )

My submission was accepted by my school's study abroad magazine! Yay! It's pretty exciting, as this is going to be my first publication!

I'm not sure how competitive the magazine is, but it's really glossy and shiny and I like to read it, at least. There are lots of people from my school who do study abroad stints, though I don't know if all of them ( Read more... )

At this time, I commence working on my five-page research paper with three sources that is due tomorrow. My argument is that in the play Another Antigone by A. R. Gurney, Diana, the Dean of Humanities, is the equivalent of Ismene in Antigone and that her characterization enhances the fact that Ismene is not the pushover everyone thinks she is.

Wish ( Read more... )

My laptop's been giving me trouble today. First it has problems starting up, then it tells me that my McAffee protection system has errors but doesn't allow me to fix it, and finally it has no internet access. I'm typing this using my family computer -- which has cable, so the speed's pretty nice -- but it's not quite the same as using my laptop ( ( Read more... )

Er.

...The reason I haven't posted for almost an entire week as because I have been abducted by aliens who only recently decided to let me back home. And as much as this explanation sucks, it's the best excuse I'm allowed to have because there is no fucking way I can redeem having been away for so damn long. I mean, it wasn't even the weekend. The ( Read more... )