I really have got to stop focusing on word count. I have to write this thing until it's done, whether that's 1600 words or 2500. God, I hope it's not 2500.

...And I just spent ten minutes drooling over the synonyms dictionary.com gives for "guilt." Contrition and culpability and delinquency and disgrace. Malfeasance. Peccability, penitence, remorse ( Read more... )

College Bowl quote of the night: "You know, if everything's positioned correctly, nothing should be dangling."

I was talking about participles, people. Participles.

...Although that is one of the highlights of my college experience, right there.

This paper would be a lot easier to write if I didn't keep typing "Duke of Gloucester" as "Duck of ( Read more... )

So I'm at the Donkey, minding my own business and working on my paper for our Out of the Dust presentation, when the Bright Eyes CD ends and is replaced with a CD by Woody Guthrie, or maybe Willie Nelson. "Oh, how neat," I thought, "it's all old-fashioned and countrified and it fits in perfectly with the paper I'm writing."

And then, suddenly, he's ( Read more... )

( Gilmore Girls spoilers )

( Upstairs Brain, Sawyer. UPSTAIRS BRAIN. )

Slither is great and wonderful and of the awesome and everyone should go see it NOW. Unless you have a weak stomach, because...well, just don't. Seriously the grossest movie I have ever seen, and I mean that in a highly complimentary way. Maybe it was the drawl, but Bill Pardy = Malcolm Reynolds. You know how whenever Adam Baldwin picks up a gun, ( Read more... )

I like reading Latin hexameter aloud. I love overaccenting the syllables and scanning ahead for elisions. I don't know if this is a symptom or a contributing factor of my insanity. But I don't pick up any of the meaning when I do it. I just kind of fall into the rhythm and I stop even trying to pick up the gist of the passage. So I'm reading ( Read more... )

I'm sure everyone on the Internet has seen this little homophobic ditty disguised as a movie review, but in case you haven't been to metaquotes lately, there's the link. I definitely enjoyed a sporfle or two at the cluelessness--The young ladies who are fans of Gyllenhaal and Ledger do not want to see them making out, for example--but it's very clear that ( Read more... )

I PASSED MY COMPS!

*does The Dance of Great Glee, aka a very clumsy Springle-Ring*

Now I just have to make sure I pass Latin, too. I thought footnotes would take up more room, because it's like putting a bibliography in the body of the paper, but because they don't double-space with everything else, I think they actually take less. Which basically ( Read more... )

So apparently some girl in Lisa's hallways has scabies. (Don't look it up in Wikipedia, seriously. You'll itch for hours.) We discussed highly unfeasible quarantine measures, and then she decided to go to bed.

catalyst448: good night
catalyst448: and if you say
catalyst448: don't let the bedbugs bite
catalyst448: i'll cut a bitch

So I didn't.

Instead ( Read more... )