Shakespeare's birthday is this week, and my Shakespeare students have been good all semester.

( So I made them a cake. )

I haven't made a real post in, like, forever, even though I feel like I have because of the twitter feeds. Also I have been feeling like I haven't got much to say other than expressions of general malaise and anxiety and you guys don't want to read that ( Read more... )

This is a picture of my Christmas tree:


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Since I apparently enjoy the opportunity to look creepy and pallid on lj and all, I rather liked this alternative that the_red_shoes started and lareinenoire picked up, in which we all post pictures of our bookcases. Because I love pictures of books, even though these are not really very brilliant photos and you mostly can't read the titles.

( my boooooooks )

So a while back I found a copy of the new RSC Complete Works on amazon.com for twenty-seven dollars, and I said to myself, "Self, this is not at all reckless booksluttery, because it is not that expensive, and also a Wise Professional Investment." Having convinced myself of the good sense of my own statement, I went ahead and ordered a copy (it ( Read more... )

After all, he, as a resident of medieval Europe, never got to experience the wonders of chocolate, for which he and all of his contemporaries deserve our sympathy.

Behold the results of the baking of the tiny death brownies. They are not as pretty as tamnonlinear's, but I figure I have enough to do to produce edible food; I don't care what it looks like.


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And presented without comment.


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So I was talking, as one does, to garpu about some of the atrocities committed in the name of choir dress design, and decided to see of there were any pictures online of the really quite nice dresses my choir got right before my senior year at Michigan ( Read more... )

So it is a chilly Saturday evening and I am bored and have no social life. My original plans, which involved making this magnificent concoction, have been thwarted on account of the phyllo dough being insufficently thawed ( Read more... )

To bring closure to this whole business of taking my exams, I have begun to remove the sticky notes from my library books, a long and rather laborious process.

For no particularly good reason, I've decided to stick them on the bathroom door.


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