My "I will not procrastinate so badly this year!" lasted just as long as the first paper ( Read more... )

So, I've just been thinking in general (I think it was brought on by a lack of well written smut in the CATs fandom) about the place of sex in stories/fiction/movies/TV shows. It's interesting because in a lot of ways I feel it's a taboo subject in our culture (or at least a sorta generally disliked one in public discourse) but at the same time we ( Read more... )

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde (1888)

Alright, so since I'm in a 400 level Oscar Wilde class you might end up hearing quite a bit more about him because he is one of my favorite authors and a fascinating historical figure on top of that, not to mention smack dab in like, one of my top three historical periods to study and he pretty much dominates ( Read more... )

I like writing, I like writing a lot.

So why is it so damn hard to write papers some days? I know the clock is ticking and--is that a shiny new icon over there? >.> My attention span goes to hell. 

That moment when you're reading a fanfiction for an old fandom and realize suddenly, "Oh, THAT'S where I knew this actor from!" That actor being the other that was bothering you all week for not figuring out what you've seen them in. Thank you brain ( Read more... )

Since I tend to think of Veteran's Day as more of the end of WWI, I decided it might be a good time to finally pick up Hero by Michael Korda, the biography of TE Lawrence that came out last year to quite a bit of acclaim ( Read more... )

Starting to inch toward organization and competing paperwork. So much paperwork for a double major, what the hell... Okay, not oodles of it but enough that it's' enough to make me bang my head into the table. I should get everything finished up by Thursday though, I hope ( Read more... )

I really do not enjoy being in pain all day, I really don't. Body, please stop hating me ( Read more... )

I found a set of four Star Trek glasses today for really cheap due to the packaging being pretty much dead. Also, Scotty has a large crack in him but I'm not sure if that was from before or transit. I'm assuming from packaging defeats before, but these are more decorative than anything so he'll just be on a shelf looking pretty. But I now have a ( Read more... )

There are Doctor Who wind up toys. I really have no idea what to do with this. On a couple different levels.

I have been working on reconnecting with my vague childhood hobby of stamp collecting. It was really: I think Stamps are pretty and I started saving them, and then my elders got totally excited because it used to be /their/ hobby and either ( Read more... )