( because i have been promising Allie for ages now )

We make our own fun -- if by fun you mean study break ( Read more... )

So, we were in Shakespeare class talking about all the homosocial stuff in Coriolanus and Prof. Oram talked about how he prefers to use the term homosocial rather than homosexual for this play since the homosexual desire gets sublimated into other behavior, though he wasn't going to say anything silly (his word) like that Shakespeare wasn't ( Read more... )

Mmm... lunch. Two boca burgers and potato puffs and pink lemonade. And it turned out that after 2 days of cold grainy "hot chocolate" the machine was giving us real hot chocolate again. I was stuffed and already had a beverage but was still happy. I was in fact so stuffed that i passed on dessert -- assorted ice creams plus more alcoholic ( Read more... )

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NYTimes Top Story today:

BOSTON WINS SERIES, 4-0
Red Sox Erase 86 Years of Futility in 4 Games
By TYLER KEPNER
The Red Sox, the team that perfected heartbreak, silenced the Cardinals, 3-0, in Game 4 to win their first World Series since 1918. Boston won it in the city where Johnny Pesky held the ball in Game 7 of the 1946 World Series, the first ( Read more... )

was lovely, though it was the second weekend in a row of getting little homework done, which is badness.

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This marks the 3rd time i’m doing 1 Henry IV in class. Not the most compelling play ever and i like it less than i remember, but having done it so often so many of the passages just feel familiar, which is comforting in a way.

I don’t particularly like Falstaff, but the first time i did 1 Henry IV we followed it with 2 Henry IV and Henry V, and ( Read more... )

The short version: Went home to the Boston area, slept a lot, saw lots of people, enjoyed myself, did almost no work though i did very well on the GRE. Returned to Smith and have continued to do almost no work.

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Monday night:Went to the library after Self-Defense class to research for my paper ( Read more... )