You know, sometimes I think that stating something aloud (or in writing) is just a dare to the universe to prove me wrong. It's not rational, of course -- and yet sometimes I wonder ( Read more... )

It's been a month or so since I've written here, hasn't it? What can I say: life has been busy, in that sense of things coming apart at the seams ( Read more... )

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood ( Read more... )

(N.B.: subject line attribution: "Radioactive," Imagine Dragons.)

This week has really flown by, hasn't it? I kind of lost track somewhere in there, what with three separate hard deadlines along with the usual day-to-day. Hope it's at least been a good one for all of you!

Media stuff
-- Thor 2 opens in theaters here today, and I am really ( Read more... )

Confidential to
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One year and six days ago, I passed my prospectus defense ( Read more... )

This post serves as a quick public note of my expected temporary absence until my dissertation drafts are all turned in at the end of May.

Please free to leave links in comments to anything you want to be sure I see (whether on DW/LJ, Tumblr, wherever the mood strikes). Thanks!

This entry was originally posted at http://silveraspen.dreamwidth. ( Read more... )

I'm writing this from the office, where I'm taking a couple of minutes between survey batches to stretch and catch up with myself ( Read more... )

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

--T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land."
It's (Inter)National Poetry Month, and the poem quoted above is really both the obvious and the only choice to start things off ( Read more... )

I'm still here! I haven't fallen on pie or vanished off the face of the planet or anything like that ( Read more... )