Sitting around feeling sorry for myself because I haven't finished any fiction in almost 18 months -- which is backwards, I should be feeling bad about my productivity (and motivated to change) not bad about my reception (and motivated to whine). But the writer's guilt machinery melted down sometime around when I left college. XD;; Best course of ( Read more... )

A belated Happy Chanukah to everyone. My mother and I started off on the right night but lost track over the weekend, since she was out of town and neither of us is religious enough to observe the rituals alone. We had thought that Monday (missed because of a fundraiser) was the last night, but we decided to light the candles on Tuesday anyway, ( Read more... )

Keith Olberman mentioned on Countdown tonight that while our soon-to-be-Attorney General and his detractors argue about whether or not there's enough public evidence in the present day to classify waterboarding as "torture," more than 100 years ago US soldiers were court-marshaled for using "the water torture" during the Spanish-American and ( Read more... )

Who the hell was I talking about when I said I came to Michigan with no work ethic, because I certainly wasn't talking about myself. -_-; Sorry to keep harping on this. I found out yesterday dropping History as my primary major messes up my area distribution requirements, so my options are either go back to Michigan and finish the distribution, ( Read more... )

I finished a paper today!! And then I got an email saying that I was too late ;_;. But at least I'll get credit for the class, which was really all I was after. :D And honestly, it felt so good to finish that even when the email came in, it didn't really dent the sparkle. ^_^ (Well...mostly. -_-)

( Whys and Wherefores )

It's 9:30am and your first and only final of the semester is in four hours. Anxious because you missed the review session and haven't studied on your own, either, you have no difficulty getting out of bed (for the the first time in a very long time). But despite being up, motivated, and somewhat focused before noon, you can't seem to read through ( Read more... )

So apparently...the fifth case was an extra added to DS version of Phoenix Wright? So much for social commentary. ORZ In the future I'll keep the judgmentalism confined to my own country.

Bookblogging!

Robertson Davies, The Manticore
Sequel to Fifth Business. I liked Fifth Business but Manticore is extremely forgettable. In fact I picked ( Read more... )

I realized I shouldn't spam people who just want to read fanfic with endless nattering, indecipherable notes, and the books I am reading for class...so of course I am spamming the flist with them instead, XD. Scroll past if you've seen this already.

Research: Victorian Ghost Stories. One thing you notice is that they tend to be written in the ( Read more... )

Happy New Year! As promised months and months ago, here are the electronic readings from U.S. Interventions in Latin America (summary of non-electronic reading herehttp://www.4shared.com/dir/864644/f5dc0c72/US_Interventions_in_Latin_America ( Read more... )

Promised quixotic_sense ages ago I'd upload the course reading for a seminar I'm in this semester, US Interventions in Latin America and the World. I'm still working on that but in the meantime here are my impressions of the non-electronic reading. Note, I was in most cases completely ignorant of the events described in these books (it's why I signed up for ( Read more... )