I spent Saturday at the zoo with several friends and five girls from A's dorm. The dormmates are all from Seoul, Korea, and speak English pretty well, but find the grammar and idioms here confusing. (I told them even English-speakers don't get English grammar!)

I think of the best things about being in college is getting to talk to people who grew ( Read more... )

"Since 1947, or possibly earlier, the National Turkey Federation has presented the President of the United States with one live turkey and two dressed turkeys, in a ceremony known as the "National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation". The live turkey is "pardoned" and lives out the rest of its days on a peaceful farm. ...

In more recent years, two ( Read more... )

PR people/spokespeople need to put the "person" back in "spokesperson." Honestly. Try to be a little less robotic?

I want to be able to characterize people like Chaucer does in The Canterbury Tales. I suspect I would love him just as much even if I'd never seen Paul Bettany's take on him.

My English teacher is funny. I want him to read to us more in ( Read more... )

Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care,
And come like the benediction
That follows after prayer.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Day is Done

http://www.bartleby.com/102/65.htmlI feel like that a lot these days. I walk around the world, it seems ( Read more... )

I attended a party in which my head produced this shadow:


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From the first two weeks of school.

"See if he'll talk and if [major governing board at university] will talk." --my section editor at a weekly meeting

"...dust-choked hours..." --a choice phrase in an otherwise laughable video we watched in history class

"That's Satan for public consumption." --English prof talking about Paradise Lost's main ( Read more... )

Last day at ye olde waitressing job, and my am I glad it's over. For some reason, I'm not really jumping for joy about moving into the dorms, though. That is probably because I enjoy having more privacy and my own space. Ah well. All the better to get me raring to get an apartment the year after this.

I saw about the cutest thing ever tonight. A ( Read more... )

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So much for you, 2007-2008.

Looking through it, one is provided a mini-capsule of one's life. All the minute cares and projects that warranted space and thought, and sometimes, amusingly, made for a great deal of frustration.


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So last night, us girls decided to cook at A's apartment and watch movies (the consensus was The Prestige, which, now that I understand 90% of what's going on, dizzies me with its many time-jumps). I suggested breakfast for supper, but I think the dish A was more comfortable with was spaghetti. :)

"We should have garlic bread! You can't have Italian ( Read more... )