I spent the first three weeks of September outside pretty much all day every day. Because I am prone to sunburn (and by "prone" I mean "I turn bright red after 10 minutes in the sun"), I wore long sleeves and a floppy hat and a lot of sunscreen ( Read more... )

As I said in my previous post, I liked a lot of things about the Glee finale. I also had some pretty serious reservations about it, partly because of the ep itself and partly because of how the ep played into current/recent national conversations (and silences) about queer civil rights.

This post resonated with some of what I was thinking about, ( Read more... )

These eps aired at a point in the semester when I did not have the time or brainpower to really sort through my reactions. So: belated post is belated. I am hoping that
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The Glee series finale airs tomorrow night, and my Tumblr dash is awash in tears and nostalgia and don't leave me, Glee! -- has been all week. I've been feeling decidedly out of step with fandom, and also vaguely guilty, because I'm just... not that upset ( Read more... )

( reactions and spoilers under the cut )

( reactions and spoilers under the cut )

First, some non-spoilery navel-gazing: As of the middle of last week, I had long posts half-written about most of the eps so far -- half-written because most of them devolve into grumbling, which isn't how I want to approach the show's last season. The pattern was consistent enough that I had to take a step back and ask what was going on in my own ( Read more... )

Short version: Adulting is hard, yo ( Read more... )

I am so late with this post, and I have things to say about 6x03 too, but if I don't post this now I don't know when I'll have the chance, so... here we go.

( spoilers and reactions under the cut )

It's probably a good thing that I am currently in the middle of a) semester prep, b) Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, and c) cooking for a dinner party, because otherwise I would probably be vibrating out of my skin with anticipation/anxiety re: tonight's season premiere of Glee. I mean, I'm tense and conflicted as it is. I'm glad hiatus is over! ( Read more... )