The other day I took a walk up in the woods, and on my way back through the neighborhood I heard something over the music in my headphones. It turned out to be a guy in his backyard playing a country-dance on his violin! It was really good. I stood and listened to him (unseen) for about five minutes, and when he finished I applauded. :P It was ( Read more... )

Life goes on in the land of the Bobcats. ( Read more... )

Well, I'm having a productive day. Drove to OH yesterday--to my brand spankin new apt!! SO EXCITED!! Ask my mom. I've been squeeing over it all summer ( Read more... )

Maybe I've had an easy time of it the past quarter (strike that: I know I had an easy time of it) but the reading just for the first week seems excessive. FOUR chapters for my history of the English language class and 53 pages for my Romanticism class. This was all assigned this afternoon and is due Thursday afternoon. Surely that's a BIT much ( Read more... )

My spring break starts on Thursday. It is Saturday. I just finished my spring break homework. Mwa ha ha ha!

I put the discussion of fan fiction in my article on Chaucer's Anelida and Arcite. My only worry is that this discussion was only supposed to be 2 pages or so, and it's 4. Once I sink my teeth into the luscious topic of the history of fan ( Read more... )

This is the first time in a long time that I have ended up with absolutely nothing to do in office hours. I usually have some reading to get done, but I have NO MORE READING THIS QUARTER!! Technically I skimmed the conclusion of the Eagleton book for bib/meth today, but whatever. :P Anyway, I've realized that I haven't been keeping my LJ up-to-date ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a Good Day. I meant to work on my last bibliography paper in the morning, but instead I got some ideas for the intro to my thesis, and ended up working on that instead. Got some good work down ( Read more... )

I tell you, when this quarter ends I am going to send an email to everybody in my creative writing workshop and thank them for being such great human beings. I've been worrying for the last week and a half about having this piece reviewed, and (surprise surprise) I had nothing to worry about. They all recognized that it was a genre piece, and while ( Read more... )

My prof for my creative writing class said that she assumed all the CW majors had this particular book (Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway) and was familiar with it, and if any of us didn't have it (it may ONLY be me in that class; i don't know) we needed to buy it and read certain chapters. So mine arrived this week, and ( Read more... )

Somewhat eventful day. Started out working on my creative writing project. I realized over the weekend that we have to turn our works in a week early so that our classmates have time to read them before we meet and discuss them. So I signed up for the 19th thinking I'd have two weeks to write the thing, and instead I only have ONE week: I need to ( Read more... )