I'm back in DC. It's...

I don't know, truth be told. There are things which are weird (the fact that everyone is still working on finals, while I'm not). There are things which seem more or less normal (sitting around watching "Jaynestown" and "Out of Gas"). And then there are the things which are normal (hanging out, mostly; I ate dinner at TDR, ( Read more... )

Today, in "Envisioning Future of World Politics", I felt like I was actually intelligent for the first time in about a week and a half. I think I'm on the mend. On the other hand, I wasted another half-hour reading more Narbonic archives. So, you know, two steps forwards. I get to talk about Firefly next week, which should improve things ( Read more... )

I have hooked my youngest brother, Calvin, on Terry Pratchett, my mother bemoans the fact that Firefly was canceled, my little sister Zoë inhaled the first two seasons of Buffy at a pace only slowed by the fact that some episodes are just a might scary, I've given my cousins graphic novels, Elizabeth Peters, and Ender's Game to rave reviews, and I' ( Read more... )

It is an inalterable truth that there are ultimately only two things a sequel can be, vis a vis the original film: better, or worse. There are degrees of failure*, of course: a world of difference between the stumble of Ocean's Twelve and the crushing abyss of The Matrix Reloaded-a minor fall, or a catastrophic slide. But every sequel ever made is ( Read more... )

Well, I've had a pretty busy afternoon. And for some reason, I've got it in my head that you might care. Never let it be said I didn't enable my own madness. I'm a madness-enabler ( Read more... )

According to Google Maps, I ran .9 miles in ten minutes, but of course there's a difference between Anderson Hall and 4400 Mass Ave NW. I'm eyeballing it as an extra thousand feet. I started at the beginning of "Ignoreland" and was just in front of the door to my room as "Man on the Moon" ended ( Read more... )

I had a bunch of goals for today, but the most pressing was to write a paper for poetry. The length was 750 to 1000 words. Easy, right ( Read more... )

I'm just sitting in my room at the moment. I've got a million things to do (books to read, papers to write, miles to run). And the only thing thought that's running through my head at this moment is that I have to wait until Thursday (an extra day, because Mail Services is slow like that) before I can watch the last disc of FireflyAnd since it's a ( Read more... )

Anyone who's at AU who keeps forgetting to go to the National Gallery, this is yet another reminder. I spent a couple hours there today; it's quite a place ( Read more... )