In mid-May, I'll be going to Europe. Sadly not to Italy or Rome or England, but still to very interesting places, certainly ones more interesting than sticking around here. I'll be taking in Vienna, going to Slovakia, then driving across Austria and Germany to the Netherlands ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I last updated, and I'm very sorry for not responding to the people who last commented. Life has been pretty crazy this last month with work, attempting to take part in "extracurricular activities", and every spare moment spent on writing. But finally, I've hit a very short lull before my last bout of essay marking. ( Read more... )

In lieu of my disappointment over the HPFF Dobby awards, for which all my hopes have been dashed, and my very strangely swollen ankles - which came for no known reason and have left massive bruises up and down my legs (my excuse is that I was attacked by an octopus), I will think about things that, lately, have made me happy ( Read more... )

Not the best week in the world. I went to school yesterday all happy and ready to get some work done (at last!) then I try to turn on my laptop. It works the first time I turn it on, but the speakers weren't working, which happens a lot, so I restarted ( Read more... )

The professors were kind enough to inform the group of us that we will not have lives until next August. We will read, write (essays longer than a novel!), teach the first years, and try to find time to sleep and eat in between ( Read more... )

Things are looking up, to some degree. I can think again, which is good, so those narcotic painkillers are now out of my system. No more ranting and raving (though I would love to rant about the banner requestors at TDA :P) for now ( Read more... )

On Wednesday I had six teeth removed: four wisdom teeth and two deformed molars that were, as the dentist put it, "useless" to keep. Now, on Saturday, I still feel as though I was hit by a city bus going at top speed. Is this natural? Am I supposed to feel like crap for this long? With the pain medication, I can't keep anything down, but ( Read more... )

The poor car, my official first car, had an issue yesterday. It has since been fixed, but really, of all the days to break down, why must have it chosen a particularly hot and horrible Sunday? I was not alone in the car when the drivebelt thingy, which runs pretty much the whole motor system, disintegrated. My parents were there, them having ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who responded to my last post. I'm still excited about it, haha. ^_^

( some snow and my kitty )

The English Department at my university has accepted me for graduate studies! It's not in stone yet, as the actual Graduate Studies Department has to officially grant me acceptance, but I made it past the most frightening committee of English professors.

This is really exciting. How much more havoc can I wreak in the literary world? ^__^