On the Common App, we put down "Tolkien research" second on my extracurricular, personal, and other activities. Right after The Review.

I'd have put it first, but I aspire to make my career in journalism, not in Tolkien scholarly-ness.

I received the uber-cool Calvin and Hobbes collection for my birthday. I haven't yet opened it because I am ( Read more... )

When you search for yourself, you will never find the you whom you sought because in the course of your search, you became a new person ( Read more... )

We all roar pass them on the highway, glad that we've finally reached the end of the bottleneck, but when we say, "Whew, thank goodness" as we press a little harder on the gas, is it because we're glad that we're out of the traffic jam or because we can't have a good look at what's happening amid the sirens and flashing lights and dark-shirted ( Read more... )

Ohmygosh, is to-day Friday? I think it is. If it is, that SO makes my day ( Read more... )

Introduction of an e-mail I sent to Dr. Raulston earlier this eveningI had to wait for my muse before I could map out my short story for this second out-of-class paper. When I realised that my muse is not being attentive to my needs, I made my little brother sub for my muse. So now I have an outline for my short story, as I borrowed one detail from ( Read more... )

Life is like a brick wall shrouded in fog. You think that things are going swimmingly and that all is swell, and then you suddenly chance upon a brick wall (because you've run smack into it) and either are knocked unconscious or develop a big bruise/bump on your head. When you come to / realise that you just ran into a brick wall, you then have to ( Read more... )

So, I need to finish my Philosophy paper by to-morrow night because I'm going to Mizzou and leaving on Friday morning, and I left Republic in the HCR ( Read more... )

Three of the four Tolkien-related quotes going on my senior page:

'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lost Road"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it ( Read more... )

I'm so inspired, right now, to take a year off between high school and college and just make films. I've already committed myself to writing, producing, directing, and filming a full-length musical (although, someone(s) else can handle orchestration and choreography) after wrapping up Lord of the LEGOs (and Eru knows when that is). Then, having ( Read more... )

If you're having a Saturday-Sunday-Monday three-day weekend, Sundays are always the best day. On Saturdays, you tend to be a little zonked out from all the drama of the previous week(s); on Mondays, you're scrambling to finish all the work that needs to be done before Tuesday. On Sundays, however, the blissful weekend-relaxation-let's-have-fun mode ( Read more... )