The last week has felt both exhausting and shamefully inert. I'm done with my thesis, and have a lot of things to do, but the immediacy of everything is kinda overwhelming. In some senses it's a lack of direction, and in others it's a feeling that I'm waiting around for life to happen to me. I perhaps need a stricter routine.

At present, this is the ( Read more... )

Last Thursday truncat was kind enough to lend me the Firefly box set. Yesterday I went out and, among other things, found inexpensive copies of Millennium Actress and Princess Mononoke. Today, the copy of A Tanú which I ordered direct from Dreamquest arrived ( Read more... )

In depraved May, dogwood and chestnut, flowering judas,
To be eaten, to be divided, to be drunk
Among whispers;Things be basically good. I've accomplished little enough in the past week, in terms of the research and all, but still, outside pursuits are progressing well. I had grading to do this weekend, which made it somewhat suck, but that was ( Read more... )