What a difference a year makes--that's the phrase, right? I guess it does make a difference: last year at this time, I was a few hours away from my orals exam, about to spend a night where I thought my anxiety was going to kill me--just crush crush crush my heart. I wasn't consciously nervous; I was deeply calm, but in the way that I get deeply ( Read more... )

So, for the past few months (or so), I've been meeting people for drinks, movies, maybe dinner. Dating, I guess, is what people call it. I'm sure I'll talk about it more later, but for now I just want to talk about romance and relationships.

Rather, I want to hear about romance and relationships. So, how did your parents meet? What's the ( Read more... )

-John Ower, "'Aesop' and the Ambiguity of Clifford Simak's City

Sometime in the future I will tell you all about Clifford Simak's two most famous works, City and Way Station. But right now, I'm just going to talk about me.

Actually, I haven't got much to say about me.

• My iPod gave me some trouble a few weeks ago, so I shipped it back, and ( Read more... )

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-Aeschylus, Agamemnon, line 1186, trans. R. Fagles ( Read more... )