Because I know you all care:

OMG OMG OMG I PASSED MY COLLOQUIUM!!!

And terremotia GOT ME FLOWERS! I can honestly say I’ve never been so flabbergasted in my life, Tanya. I got back from colloquium, and on a whim went to check my mail. There was a package slip waiting for me that was checked off as Flowers, and I’m thinking, The hell? because no one ever ( Read more... )

Lillian's inner panicky voice: "Oh shit oh shit I have to skim through at least five books before tomorrow's colloquium! AAAAAH!!! Okay, Sparknotes and the Odyssey, I can do that...wait...this looks...familiar."
Lillian's inner snarky voice: "That's because you read the whole damn epic two years ago, dumbshit, without stooping to Cliff or Spark ( Read more... )

Itunes meme. Ganked from ink_n_imp and singealiene.

( I am very amused. )

I feel like shit. I can't even nap, too awake. Bleah. So I'm trying to get a headstart on my colloquium reading with a book I've been really looking forward to reading.

I'm ten pages into Lies My Teacher Told Me, and my mind is blown. I have my reservations about his conclusions, and his voice is so forcefully disdainful that I'm reflexively on ( Read more... )

Big/Little revealing is on the 20th, which is the week after next week. My colloqiuium is on the 27th. Next week is Spring Break.

And for some reason, this really surprises me. I kinda figured my colloquium was the day after Spring Break...

I am not competent with dates, no I'm really not.

This amused me greatly. What is the position of an LJ ( Read more... )

My Flist is amazing, and, as I suspected, extraordinarily well-read and smart ( Read more... )

My brain is still fried. But I now have a colloquium topic: I want to discuss the use of the foreign or exotic in literature to define the author or audience's own cultural identity through negation, i.e. "We're this because we're SO not that." I need suggestions for books that somehow exhibit this behavior OR critically analyze the same. I have a ( Read more... )

Halloween brings out the weird in people.

Someone has replicated (excellently) the Dark Mark over their house for the season. Interesting...though children who have difficulties separating reality from fiction may be thoroughly shaken ( Read more... )