In case you tuned in late, here's the recap:

1) Marshall Scholarship application submitted sans one letter of recommendation that apparently got eaten by the online system and does not display as having been submitted despite the insistence of recommender that it was. Said letter will be resubmitted by recommender in nine days once she returns ( Read more... )

There is something about reading Austen that I can't describe. I hate it sometimes that I'm doing my senior thesis on Austen and that I can't increase my English geek cred by writing about some obscure someone-or-other that no one but me has ever heard of and therefore no one but me will ever even think themselves capable of understanding -- but ( Read more... )

This post serves three rather scanty purposes ( Read more... )

Sentence that did not make it into e-mail to professor, considering that I've only known her since September and wouldn't want to offend ( Read more... )

Day one • a song
Day two • a picture
Day three • a book
Day four • a site
Day five • a youtube clip
Day six • a quote
Day seven • whatever tickles your fancy

"In Life's name and for Life's sake, I assert I assert that I will employ the Art which is its gift in Life's service alone, rejecting all other usages. I will guard growth and ease pain. I ( Read more... )

You know you're going insane when the conversations you have with yourself don't even make sense ( Read more... )

Item 1. I am still writing that fantasy cross-dressing story for anenko that I started drafting as my NaNoWriMo project this past November. I'm posting it one chapter at a time on its own journal, gil_and_leah, and you should check it out because the more people I know are reading it, the greater my motivation becomes to update at something approximating regular ( Read more... )