I'm pretty sure that all schoolwork should be suspended in times of wonderful weather. Unfortunately I act like this is already the case despite the fact that it isn't, and have spent 90% of my spring break thus far wearing skirts and shorts and dresses and gallivanting about outdoors (and the other 10% sleeping). What do you mean I have my MA ( Read more... )

Fuck, you guys, Berkeley is going up in metaphorical flames: The Police Riot At Berkeley: If They'll Beat A Poet Laureate, Will They Kill A Student?

At another time I'll have something to say about how strange it is to feel closer to events happening on the opposite side of the country than those happening just half an hour's subway ride south of ( Read more... )

Since there's only a very small chance that I'll be living in the Bay Area in September (or even California, for that matter!), I've made up a list of the things--big and small--I want to do here before I'm gone. I'll bold and date things as I accomplish them, and if I write an entry about it, I'll link the date to that post. The list is sort of ( Read more... )

Today is a beautiful day. I was going to stay mostly inside and mostly get work done but my bucket list is not getting any shorter and I only have a little less than a month left in this city, so I figured I would go adventuring. About 3 miles of walking later, I have had lunch at one of my favorite restaurants, found a place that makes delicious ( Read more... )

God, on days like these, Wheeler is my safe place. When I'm on the fourth floor, flitting from office to office and having deep and meaningful conversations with professors and fellow students about the nature of life as seen through literature, all of the rest of it just seems to go away, and I just stop worrying and start belonging. I'm tense and ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back for my final semester at Berkeley (and still freaking out a little about that fact). Within a little more than three months, I'll have written my 40-60 pg. honors thesis, completed my last classes as an undergraduate, and possibly put an end to my career as a student at Berkeley (there's a small chance I could come back for grad ( Read more... )

I don't think I have words to explain the kind of "busy" that I've been feeling for the last few weeks. I think part of it stems from the fact that school requires so much more structured, scheduled time out of me here than it did in London and I'm readjusting to that fact. I had 8 hours of class per week in London, and only spent maybe 30 mins per ( Read more... )

My life has improved greatly since my last post, and mostly for completely superficial reasons, such as ( Read more... )

( As River would say, spoilers! )