So, after not seeing Michael at the English Dept. reception at Reunion, I emailed him. He replied this afternoon, saying in part:sorry to have missed you. i was away during reunion weekend so couldn't have caught up then anyway. it's good, tho, to hear that you're thriving, preaching, searching, and all such good things.
I was all asquee ( Read more... )

Checking my mail today, i finally got my official letter from UPenn. It ends with: "I trust you have been, or will soon be, admitted elsewhere to a university of your choice, and I should like to take this opportunity to wish you luck and success in your graduate studies." How bittersweet ( Read more... )

"At twenty minutes past the hour, poet Michael Thurston will read us a poem or two."

*giggles*

Sorry, him being introduced as a "poet" just amuses me.

(And no, the fact that i got up at 7:30 for this does not make me a groupie. Not at all. Stop looking at me like that.)

( cocktail party at Chapin, mostly the AMS band )

I could write theses on the Whedonverse."You have enough emotional investment in this topic to carry you through the difficult writing process. You will finish, and it will be important work you do. This is the topic you must write on. Forget all that bad advice. Figure out how to do it. You need to do it."
Wheee, offbalance pimped my entry on this week’s ( Read more... )

It's also quite dreary.

I persist in being in a really good mood, though.

I got Jessica SweetieGirl addicted to LiveJournal. Whee ( Read more... )

Yes, we spent the first 10 or 15 minutes of Am. Lit. class yesterday talking about Southern food. I learned that Michael’s a vegetarian, which always endears people to me. He talked about how he doesn’t get along with his family, how he gets along with them better since he moved 1500 miles away. He also did some of that talking about his ( Read more... )

( It's been one week, since you looked at me )

I didn’t do the last section of my Linguistics assignment ‘cause i had no clue and my professor said i should look over the material again ‘cause it’s really not that hard, and i could hand it in at 5 today (we had class at 11 yesterday). That was so wonderful of her, though of course it would have been more wonderful if i didn’t have 5 hours of ( Read more... )