I just got the proof of my book review (i.e., how it will look in print, with the journal running heads and my name and everything). AHHHHHH, SO EXCITING!

I re-read Possession this week. I read it before starting grad school, and it seemed appropriate to do the same after said schooling. (I did a similar read/re-read of Kluge's Alma Mater pre- and post-Kenyon.)

I still feel much the same way I did four years ago, although this time through, I could see, well, deeper into it than before, since I ( Read more... )

The editor took my revised book review with only minor stylistic changes! Woot! And I turned in the dance paper while I was up on campus this morning, so my semester is ooooooover ( Read more... )

Things I Never Thought I Would Use in a Paper for $200, Alex: Lyrics from "The Continental" as a section header.

And now I have the song stuck in my head. I hate that song. Argh.

Still don't have a good title. Working title is "Graphs of the Heart, Charts of the Mind: Social Dance in American Ballrooms, The Voyage Out, and The Gay Divorcee." ( Read more... )

I need a catchy title for my dance paper. Suggestions? It covers exhibition dancers Vernon and Irene Castle, Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, specifically The Gay Divorcee. Puns are appreciated, as are titles involving the names of ballroom dance steps.

I have been delivered of a bouncing baby revised draft! It is...32.5 pages. That's just about half the length of my thesis, researched and written in less than a quarter of the time. Ooof. I am so watching a movie tonight.

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Flood stuff:

The most amazing thing about this video is not the footage of a road in Cheatham County that the flood ( Read more... )

Diana Gabaldon is Wrong On The Internet. I've skimmed a few of the comments; it looks like she's getting schooled pretty well by fandom.

I really liked this post from bookshop in response: I'm done explaining to people why fanfic is okay./List of derivative works.That post made me wonder about something. It seems that there are a lot of academics-- ( Read more... )

Apparently the flood of the last three decades is going on in Nashville right now.Stay dry, Nashville folks! We're supposed to get that same rain tonight and tomorrow in Knoxville, but then again, we were supposed to get rain today too, and it kept dodging us, like there was a forcefield or something. I won't complain ( Read more... )

You know, using X-Files episodes as the proverbial carrot to enjoy once I finish working on the paper for the night is not the best idea, because it leads to me watching creepifying TV at 1 o'clock in the morning. GAH ( Read more... )

You know, I rarely bother to find out anything about actors in shows or movies I like. When you get right down to it, it's kind of like finding out the favorite food (or whatever) of John Smith, systems engineer from Tulsa. They're just people.* However, I'm surprised I managed to get this far without knowing David Duchovny left the English PhD ( Read more... )