Spring Break is finally giving me a chance to catch my breath a bit. Monday I defend my thesis and find out if I graduate. Wow. It's uh, it's only five days away. Excuse me while I go have five days' worth of freaking out ( Read more... )

lilium inter spinas - the lily among the thorns ( Read more... )

I wound up only teaching two classes this semester. This means money is going to be quite tight; I should be able to do things like send out the presents I have left in my apartment (because yes, I suck that much at getting Christmas presents out on time). But I probably won't have much if any to spare for things like traveling, which is ( Read more... )

Comps (Monday) went as well as could be expected. I'm very unsure of how the take-home part is being graded, in terms of what standards are being applied, so I can't speculate on how well I did that. My in-class portion I feel more confident about; I wrote two essays coming out to six pages in just under two hours. The first was an examination of ( Read more... )

I told Ian I'd make him a list of Shakespeare's plays ranked within each subgenre, and Laura said she'd like to read it too, so here it is. It's highly subjective, because I weighed my personal opinion as much as my critical assessment. I figure it might be interesting, though ( Read more... )

Remaining in this semester ( Read more... )

I went and talked to my adviser yesterday before my poetry workshop. I went into this meeting knowing I have only 4 required classes left and three semesters to take them (and of course my thesis hours, but I'm not counting those). I had chosen the poetry workshop (with Kay, the teacher I like, hooray) and picked out two other courses I was ( Read more... )

I miss Sami. My best friend, my muse - it sucks that we aren't wandering around at night being crazy poets and winos together anymore. I don't think I've even seen her since Adam's birthday, like, three months ago. Sadface ( Read more... )

Rachel is on her way down here; I am awake (against my will) and eating breakfast (kinda). I worked out a payment plan with UNO so I actually have money for things like groceries and such for the next couple of weeks, which is very good news. My schedule at work looks pretty nice, and I should have my first paper written by next weekend (aka, ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAKESPEARE! THANK YOU FOR HAMLET, MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, TEMPEST, OTHELLO, KING LEAR, RICHARD III, TITUS ANDRONICUS, MERCHANT OF VENICE, TWELFTH NIGHT, AND MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of ( Read more... )