I didn't realize how odd it would be, or how nostalgia-inducing, to see Froshies wandering the streets of Montreal. This whole post-grad thing kind of snuck up on me. It felt like one day it was still summer and I could maintain the illusion of being a college student on a temporary break from life. And then the next day, drunken 18 year-olds were ( Read more... )

Sorry about my absence. You know how in horror movies, there's always a moment when the hero/ine thinks the danger is past, and the monster is killed? And they turn around to breathe a sigh of relief, but over their shoulder we see the ghoul sit right back up and make a grab at them, and we know this will be the worst battle. School was kind of ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think I'm one of those people whose humour is actually just a series of inside jokes... with themself. See, yesterday I had brought my computer to class to try and work on an essay, which usually just means I end up scrolling through New Yorker articles while obsessively refreshing Facebook. The article I was reading at the time- George ( Read more... )

You know what? The only thing that sucks more than mild gossip, is mild salsa. Get some chili peppers all up in that, or you just have diced tomatoes with delusions of grandeur. Anyway the mild gossip of the day, or week as it were, would be an ex-TA of mine may be, or probably not, flirting with me at my fine place of employment on Monday. I am ( Read more... )

I am supposed to teach ten people how to knit tonight. Or tomorrow morning. How do you count 1AM? The Fine Arts Council, or McGill, or whoever controls the Byzantine room booking and insurance situation at my institution of high learning, decided the best night for an all-nighter would be Thursday night. I decided signing my group up to hold a ( Read more... )

I realized I neglected to cross-post two entries from my other blog to this one. So, think of it as a bargain day!

A Bright Spot (Today)
Good news, fellas: the McGill shenanigans have been taken care of. I might be able to graduate on time, and all I had to do was prostate almost every professor in the English department. And then fill out many forms ( Read more... )

( Cherry What? )

As of 11:45, I have finished completely with Jewish History: 400-1000 CE. I feel like there are now two paths of celebration open to me:

1. Watch a Christmas movie
2. Order a bacon cheeseburger, and ask for shrimp on the side. To garnish with, at my will.

I am so happy, and yet so sleepy, and all I can think of is Maimonides. The wind calls out his ( Read more... )

Oooh, me too! Me too! Post like goldy_dollar (although I haven't seen her in forever. What is up with that?
I. Where is my stunning epiphany about my vocation? Seriously, I am having one of those moments when you wake up at odd hours contemplating where, exactly, one should go from here. I usually self-medicate with wine gums, but even that isn't working right ( Read more... )

Most of last week was pretty good, comparatively speaking. Which is why I didn't post- I'm usually only motivated to write something here when I'm down. I had an interesting discussion with my most beloved prof about Titus on Wednesday. I was originally only going to spend a few minutes talking to her, but we must have talked for about an hour. I'm ( Read more... )