I talked to Dirk on the phone tonight, and he told me he's concerned that I am becoming stupid ( Read more... )

I'm working on an evaluation that allowed me to come face to face with the following sentence (written by a random web user and not one of my coworkers):

If your like me (and I hope for you’re sake that your not), you’re an “inny”.

I just love (and by "love," I obviously mean "hate") how arbitrarily this person chooses between "you're" and "your ( Read more... )

I have to write my "autobiography" in 500 words for my feature writing class. I don't think I'll have trouble being concise; I just need to decide what is the most interesting thing I've ever done. I'll probably take the easy route and use my sister ( Read more... )

I never wrote about my first experience as a restaurant critic, so now is as good a time as any ( Read more... )

Prepare yourself for a really boring entry in which I complain about school work.

I'm currently in the middle of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, on which I have to give a presentation tomorrow afternoon. I have roughly a hundred pages left to read, which will take me more time than it should because not only am I a slow reader but I'm having ( Read more... )

The course listing for next semester is now online. Even though I have nearly a month to decide on my classes, I can already tell that I'm going to have a terrible time choosing my very last English classes. Nearly a dozen appeal to me ( Read more... )

I have a paper due tomorrow by 5pm. Naturally, I don't want to worry about finishing a paper Friday afternoon, so I'm forced to write it tonight. It's a comparison of two 18th century novels, and if I say anything more about it, I'll probably die from boredom. God, I'm sick of being an English major. Why must I be burnt out at 21 ( Read more... )

Oh, sweet relief ( Read more... )

I really don't understand my life.

Today my practical criticism professor handed back our essays on Castle Rackrent, and while I have yet to look at the comments, I did see my grade. She gave me an A-. This truly makes no sense to me ( Read more... )

Phew. I just logged on to my student acount to see if any of my professors had posted my midterm grades and I saw this line of C's. Luckily, that was just my credit option. No grades are up yet ( Read more... )