So like I said in my previous post, I'm going to very interpret the "something" in the title of "National Create Something Month" very loosely...mostly for the sake of days like yesterday, when the only thing I created was dinner.

But trust me -- it was a good dinner.

There's a restaurant about ten minutes' walk from my apartment called Kitchenette ( Read more... )

This is what happens when I read A Room of One's Own.

( It is difficult, to be a woman and to write. )

I feel like I am simultaneously under- and over-prepared for basically every one of my finals. I am in a classroom in Wheeler and for no apparent reason decided to hook up my laptop to the AV system. Well. Mostly so I could use the speakers to listen to Pride and Prejudice music. I turned in my kickass Milton paper that makes my life complete, I ( Read more... )

Today, I have slept in, talked with my sister about the new Star Trek movie in great detail, discovered that there are two different projects going on right now to try to make Paradise Lost into a movie (Milton would die if he weren't dead already), watched an old Star Trek episode while eating breakfast and folding laundry, e-mailed Queen Mary's ( Read more... )

All things considered, life is going well ( Read more... )

--If I were a professor, I think I'd totally check my profile on RateMyProfessors obsessively at first. And possibly throughout my career ( Read more... )

I for sure have homework I should be doing now -- like the reading I promised myself I'd finish today, so that I could spend tomorrow beginning work on the 8-10 page essay that's due for my romantics class on May 4th (I know, I know, that sounds like forever away, but this is probably the latest I've ever started thinking about an essay that long ( Read more... )

I am strangely busyI mean, okay, I should expect some degree of insanity. I'm taking 18 units worth of classes, co-teaching another 2 units worth. I work an average of 8 hours a week for pay and intern for another 4-6 unpaid. I am in two literature classes, each of which requires a good deal of reading and writing, and I am in two writing workshops ( Read more... )

Do you ever have those moments when you're sitting there and suddenly wonder, why this? What's the point of being in this moment ( Read more... )