'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the 'verse ( Read more... )

No more goddamn shortcuts.

See, I decided to cut across a campus parking lot on my way back from work today. Our campus parking lots feature those bars that rise up when a car approaches and drop when the car passes, mainly so they can splinter impressively in action movies.

Well, a car was going under one of the bars, and I was walking past, ( Read more... )

Number of pages in my Jane Eyre descriptive bibliography: 9.

Number of times typo'd title as Jayne Eyre: at least 20.

Number of times typo was barely caught in time: 4.

Number of minutes early paper was printed: 14.

Number of Jaynes corrected in pencil after final printing: 1. So far.

This is gonna be a good day.

So, mostly I just ignore the random college-campus scribblings on the sidewalk. I mean, 98% of them are sororities that don't realize the intense irony of drawing a wrapped gift below a slogan about "going Greek."

But this evening, coming back from class, I happened to glance down. I saw a sign advertising Hawthorne Heights was going to be in Kent ( Read more... )

I spent yesterday evening researching grad schools and having a very pleasant conversation with Zac. This afternoon, I scheduled a job interview in the book department of the Catholic press for which my mother works. So in the spirit of continued randomness, and the spirit of not freaking out about the prospect of a really real job, I present the ( Read more... )

....Oh my god, you guys. I officially love my YA Lit class. Because the professor sent out an email this morning, looking for volunteers to do a presentation...

( On sci-fi or fantasy books. )

So remember that snow we weren't going to get? We got it. Four inches or so. And my siblings had a snow day after all, so while Mom and Lisa got haircuts the twins and Joe and I stayed in and chained the last three episodes of Firefly. It was awesome. The look on Joe's face when Tracey jumped off the table...brilliant. So now we have the rest of ( Read more... )

We stopped at the Amish-country store on the way back from OU this afternoon. We got an entire bag--probably a pound--of the little dry marshmallows like in Lucky Charms. Joe's probably going to get up in the morning and pour himself a huge bowl (he eats cereal out of mixing bowls these days, from what I hear) of just the marshmallows. And probably ( Read more... )

Christie: hey, i have a firefly question, when they take one guy back to his home after they realize that he isn't dead, but they killed him because he thought they were going to kill him, he said a quote like when you can't walk....... well what was that quote?

Yep, my little sister just IMed me to ask me a Firefly question. I've never been so ( Read more... )

You ever feel like something's a sure thing, and then realize that you've gone completely the wrong direction and, basically, you suck? Yeah.

I entered the Fireflytalk article contest about fifteen minutes before the deadline, and I totally thought I had something good. It was specific, it seemed to flow, it echoed how I felt throughout waiting for ( Read more... )