Today I finished my application essay and submitted my application to Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Now begins the ritual panic! Especially as I'm actually a bit excited about their English program now that I've figured out where they're hiding all the useful information on their website (why are college websites universally impossible to ( Read more... )

Nicked from wanderlight (whose birthday it was yesterday: happy birthday, Rita!), as I am eager to write more entries that do not fall into the categories of Angst! Angst! Angst! and Stuff That I Did Today. Reading habits meme! Rita told her f-list all to do it, and I extend the same eager curiousity towards you lot as well! I love hearing about how other ( Read more... )

I would say that this is exactly the sort of thing that would only ever happen to me, except that there were five other people with me at the time. Just when I find myself looping through a particular bad spot of disliking the general texture of my life, I am reminded why it is awesome -- the lesson was meant to be "my friends are made of shiny, ( Read more... )

I'd never heard of steampunk before today (or, rather, I'd heard the term bandied about and didn't pay a great deal of attention), but reading some of the discussion over the really nifty thing that Neil Gaiman linked to in his Journal of Awesome piqued my interest, and off to trusty Wikipedia went I. Now, I am rather deleriously enthralled, and I ( Read more... )

i. So, Dad came upstairs a few minutes ago to tell me that, "oh, there's going to be a Beowulf movie...with Angeline Jolie." We sort of stared at each other in an "o-kay" sort of way, and he said something about Robert Zemeckis directing, "so it might be good, because he's really brilliant," (not that I would know; I am not so well-versed in ( Read more... )