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... )

So, I'm home, and things are kinda sorta getting done. Kevin and I are getting the apartment solidly put together after bringing in new furniture and rearranging things a lot. I've got two boxes of stuff I brought back with me from my mom's house that I'm working on unpacking and incorporating into my library. There's a lot to do ( Read more... )

A lot of this has gone on facebook, so anyone who cares probably already knows: I have a new job, working as a cashier at Best Buy. I've been working about a week, still don't have my own register numbers so I'm technically still in training ( Read more... )

Last night, I was working on my ebook library and Kevin was downloading some new roms for his tablet (he can now play Pokemon games on every device he owns that has a screen). I was sipping the pinot grigio he brought home as a surprise (because in oppressively hot weather, I crave cold white wine). He tapped my arm and said, "Here, how's this one ( Read more... )

I went running yesterday, then started feeling not great last night and am officially sitting around in a robe coddling my sad tummy today ( Read more... )

My professor, the one who has basically made this whole conference China trip thing happen for me, keeps piling things on me to do. And I don't mind really, because he's in the process giving me crazy-good opportunities, but like, this is a lot of pressure. I'm writing a report on the conference to be posted to the Chinese university's website, and ( Read more... )

Okay, I might have made a critical miscalculation. I imagined this paper being around 2500-3000 words, given how long it took me to read the first section I wrote. However, The Waste Land is a five part poem. I have finished the intro and the first part of the poem, and my paper is currently 1522 words long O_O This is kind of problematic. ( Read more... )

I wrote 325 words of my paper this morning, in two hours, while watching The Secret Garden. Inspired by this success, I've laid out my writing goals in terms of words per day, and I shall have the paper done by Sunday. I timed myself reading the section I have written, and it looks like, time-wise, I only need about 2400 words. I'm allowing myself ( Read more... )

I have finished my epic Black Jewels readthrough plus notetaking.
I have purchased and read (for the first time) Mists of Avalon. There are things about it that I like, and also a great many things about it I didn't. There will probably be a detailed post about this at some point ( Read more... )