One of my friends posted this super cute essay on Facebook this morning.  It's a response to "You Should Date an Illiterate Girl," but, I think, infinitely better.  An excerpt:

"Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the ( Read more... )

It's Friday night, and I have spent the entire afternoon lolling about in bed, reading Diana Gabaldon's The Fiery Cross.  I have been on page 404 for at least 2 weeks because I haven't had any time to read, so today I decided that I needed to rectify matters.  I flew through almost 200 pages, and it was utterly sublime.

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 I'm in the process of packing up to head back to my parents' house for the holidays (a 3 week break from school!  Whee!), and I ran across a set of notes that I wrote (by hand!) back in March when I was trying to galvanize myself to write again.  They're long, a bit rambling, and a little circuitous, but they include some fascinating insights and ( Read more... )

I've been unbelievably diligent over the past few days.  Since Friday, I have succeeded in grading not one, but two sets of 2 page reading logs... which is a total of 130 or so papers, give or take a few, since not everyone turned in their homework.  Each set usually takes me about 3-4 days to grade; I've managed to get these done in under half the ( Read more... )