Yeah, so the writing’s not going so well. 30-40 pages of me RAMBLING on about literature by Bronte and Dickens and then RAMBLING some more about how public schools sucked and private schools were abusive. …. And I’m not even going to mention how many of those pages I have written that I’m planning on keeping. It’s like…. less than a handful. I ( Read more... )

ARGHGHGHGHGH! I’m so damn close to actually making a thesis that is logical AND supported. I’ve just found a bounty of really great primary sources, and I just need that ONE piece to tie them all together with the literature I’ve been looking at. I even have a new working outline for the paper, with the arguments ready in my head…. I just need ( Read more... )

is finding things that don’t necessarily relate to your thesis or topic, but are damned interesting anyway.
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Day 22 - Favorite book you own

I own far too many books to claim favoritism. I’m proud of the first edition leather-bound book of poetry by Robert Browning and the first edition complete works of Charles Dickens. I have my favorite books to read. Some of my favorite books on the shelf don’t mean that much to me as a novel.  I can’t actually answer ( Read more... )

I knew I wouldn't be any good at keeping this up. Okay, 14-17, here they are:

Day 14 - Favorite book of your favorite writer

Ann Rinaldi: The Second Bend in the River, The Fifth of March, Mine Eyes Have Seen.

JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

JRR Tolkien: The Silmarillion

Phillipa Gregory: The Queen’s Fool

Tamora Pierce: ( Read more... )

Day 09 - A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving

The Mists of Avalon by Marrion Zimmer Bradley. I was sure that her style was antiquated and not at all in line with my own imaginings of Arthurian Legend. But she’s wonderful, and I’ve evolved to even enjoy the novels co-written later on in her career, though they are inferior to ( Read more... )

So yesterday was my first day of Winter Term. I will say that several things sort of threw me for a loop yesterday ( Read more... )

So, things are relatively calm at the moment, as it's the very last two weeks of the quarter, for which I could not be more grateful. However, there are enough stress-inducing items within my life that I feel the need to write it down ( Read more... )

So for our Indonesian section of class, we've been learning about the genocides that happened in 1965-66, and for this coming week I've been reading "This Earth of Mankind" by Pramoedya Anata Toer. I have to say, I'm only about 65 pages in and I. LOVE. IT. There are so many philosophical insights to be gained from a fresh and radically different ( Read more... )

So this week has been interesting.

My first week as the official PR and Marketing Director of the United Way of Mason County has been very eventful, and I have to say, full of achievements and some good feelings about myself. Considering when I first saw the job listed, I didn't think I really wanted to apply, because there was NO WAY I was going to ( Read more... )