The deadline for the term paper I've been working slowly but frantically on has been pushed from Friday to Monday. That's nice. Said term paper is on environmental issues in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. I still don't know what my main title will be, but I really want to have the subtitle "Real horrorshow, eh ( Read more... )

We're reading Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury in my literature class. This is my first time reading it; I absolutely love it, even if it did take me a while to figure out exactly what was going on in the Benjy narrative. In class today, we were broken up into small groups to discuss certain aspects of the first two sections (Benjy and Quentin; ( Read more... )

At Kommittee, people arranged for there to be a discussion last night about the artistic qualities of the naked mural and about community standards. I don't really care much about the "what is art" question, but I thought I should really show up, because detonating the petition and walking away seemed rude at best. I actually felt like some good ( Read more... )