I'm typing this from a computer terminal in the public library, because the power is completely gone at home.  It looks like we've come through a mild hurricane, with tree limbs and power lines down everywhere, in addition to the wind shaking the houses at their very foundations almost constantly.  Milk souring, food melting, meat smelling, hot ( Read more... )

The only thing I could think to update with was my 
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Today, ladies, is "Create Some Rules for Your Own Ideal Society" Day.   I'll return to post mine later (seeing as how I've already procrastinated heavily on a literary theory paper coming up with a handwritten list) but maybe there'll be a response or two by then...

EDIT: to start with, though, here's a quote that exemplifies my ideal society, taken ( Read more... )

I peek my wrinkled brow from behind the stacks of papers and to-do lists only long enough to feel an impulse to post about what all is expected these first few days, now that I'm beginning to grasp the set-up of each class, each of which has a completely different set of guidelines--how many threads to start, to respond to, even when the classes or ( Read more... )

So, here's last year's resolutions, copied from an LJ entry.   Strike-throughs indicate completion; italics a partial-completion.  Two dashes mean an amendment I just wrote.

1. Fill a portfolio with poetry
2. Own a complete set of Oscar Wilde's works, as well as Diane Ackerman's 'Natural History' series
3. Build up a basic library of opera recordings ( Read more... )

Since I'm approaching the very end of my first college semester *swoons* I thought I'd do a little review or summary, just for my own benefit later, when I'm about ready to thwack the computer with a Louisville Slugger or two next semester.   ;-)

--I have written more than fifteen papers for five classes, with a minimum of two-three in each class ( Read more... )

• Finishing Mansfield Park
  
• Going two and a half miles on the elliptical machine
  
• Sending off The Colors sonnet to the poetry contest -- very debatable if this is a good or bad thing
  
• A new mixed CD with artists ranging from classic Aerosmith and Zeppelin to Alice Cooper, Poison, Smashmouth, even Salt n' Peppa
  
• A return to reading ( Read more... )