(for once ( Read more... )

and, in fact, miserable.

What I desperately need is three months (ie: 'til mid January) to do nothing but teach (and not that, if I could help it) and read for comps.

Current Stress:

221 LECTURE: Tomorrow I must lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream. While on one hand, that's a piece of cake (better that than just about any other play, and ( Read more... )

Grumph grumph grumph. I am a gretsy Eilonwy ( Read more... )

I have actual thoughts on tonight's episode, mostly on Sam and Dean's interactions with the MotW, but they must needs wait. For it is late. And I am tired ( Read more... )

My parents and I chatted tonight, and I felt so boring 'cause I had nothing to say; I haven't done anything lately.

Which is, at least in part, why I haven't been updating here in LJ-land. I've been reading, though.

Teaching:Been grading. Am actually caught up on that, but I get final drafts for 101 on Wednesday. :P Fortuately, only 21, and ( Read more... )

As it is just about 9pm on the East Coast, the potential for spoileriness of SPN just got exponentially higher, so I am signing offline 'til I get back from Flurije's house and having watched SPN ( Read more... )

So I'm still grading these ENG221* papers. The assignment was to compare and/or contrast one aspect of Beowulf to one aspect of either "The Dream of the Rood" or "The Wanderer ( Read more... )

I cleaned my bathroom at midnight last night. Why? I'm not sure. Yes, it needed to be done. But it didn't need to be done right that moment. But once in a blue moon I get a strange impulse and I follow it through. (I'm reminded of the time that I woke up at 3 in the morning and decided that the cat litter had to be changed right then which ( Read more... )

First off, ultra mega super happy birthday to oddharmonic. Congratulations on making it 'round the sun again, especially through what seems to have been a rather intense year for you. I hope the coming one is a million and five times better, and full of happiness and love and health ( Read more... )

(Okay, so it's 1am, which is technically Monday morning, but not my point. This is for people who read LJ before I get up, 'cause so many of my readers are East Coast (or earlier!))

While the 19th Chapter of the Bone Key review is already posted (and the 20th and final chapter will be posted tomorrow-- I've finished the book and will review/recap ( Read more... )