This weekend+today, I made a chapbook out of my poetry from this past year. And for said chapbook, I sat and drew for about 12 hours straight to have a few visuals to include. I will include only the visuals here, because my poetry is long and sort of boring ( Read more... )

I have been feeling less than stellar the past few days, and I can't quite shake the blahs. School is winding down and I am getting anxious about what the hell is to become of me and all my various unfinished projects in the next two weeks, and beyond that, what I'm going to do with myself all summer. I apologize if I have not been as vocal as ( Read more... )

Alright. Whether it's freaking terrible or not, it's done. Well, I guess more appropriately, I'm done. Honestly, I love The Seven Samurai to itty bitty pieces, (especially Toshiro Mifune. Sorry, have I said that already? I REALLY LIKE TOSHIRO MIFUNE.) but that essay was too long. Far too long ( Read more... )

If I am a bit quiet for the next few days, it's because I am attempting to write a 4000 word essay about The Seven Samurai. I'm trying to tailor my thesis so I can talk about heroes and antiheroes, and discuss contemporary ideas of these two things. Really the whole point is to ramble about how Kurosawa made a brilliant film that holds up even ( Read more... )

I am sorry for the lack of interesting things in this entry. This is just me trying to suss out how I feel and why, and if there's anything to be done for it ( Read more... )

Well, apparently I must not have been very far down on the waitlist for the creative writing program I was rejected from. They offered me a place, and I said I still wanted to come. But I’m beginning to wonder if I’ve made a huge mistake ( Read more... )

You might as well share the results of your labours, even if they are school-related. I had a presentation on Gendered Romanticism today, for which I was having a hard time thinking of anything interesting to say. So I decided to go with drawings instead. Here's what I came up with.
( Spontaneous Outflow of Photoshop )