Next semester will be my last semester of course work - but I will only be doing one independent study that I am super psyched about. I will be working with the only faculty here that does comic books stuff (otherwise, he is a medievalist) and it will be the first time I will be focusing on this interest, as in the past I have just brought comics ( Read more... )

"Ugh, I can't believe you are having me read Emily Dickinson. . ."
- Frat Boy student who admitted that he had never actually read any.

It is getting to the point that I am so busy I cannot imagine having time to write my weekly reports, or even if I do make the time to NOT do schoolwork, the last thing want to be doing is sitting at the computer and rehashing it all ( Read more... )

Monday began with a bus ride down 81 from Syracuse to Binghamton. Sunday morning, Kit and I headed north in order to attend a picnic for the members of her creative writing department. For the most part people talked in their established circles. Everyone seemed a little socially awkward, writer-nerdy. I could not help but inwardly snicker. ( Read more... )

Today both Facebook and Hotmail are serving me ads for an online dating service called "Amo Latina" with photos of dark-skinned lovelies in low-cut blouses and dresses, promising to find me my "Latin Lady Love." I wonder why if these ad servers can figure out that I might be interested in dating Latinas why they can't figure out that I am not ( Read more... )

LOST: I have written about LOST before, and last night's episode just reinforced how much I love the show because it was just the kind of episode I like. Time loops, pre-destination and tragedy, electromagnetic anomalies, circles. . . I love circles. Look, I have said it before, when the name of the show is LOST, what right do you have to expect ( Read more... )

When I was a kid living in Sunset Park, I had a brown wooden plaque hanging over the head of my bed that had a picture of a crab below the words "Cancer: June 22 to July 22." Below the crab was a short description of the astrological sign. "Stubborn, moody, creative, nurturing, compassionate. . ." Blah, blah, blah. . . At the very end it listed ( Read more... )

I'm in a great mood ( Read more... )

And so it is done ( Read more... )

And so yesterday was it ( Read more... )