All right, laundry is in, soup is in the microwave, and my chair isn't bathed in the fiery rays of the Burning Orb. Time for an LJ post ( Read more... )

Last time I took comps, I was all over this journal about it. This time, I have mostly been trying not to think about it. I'm quite glad now that the schedule got shifted to three weekends, because with the craziness that keeps coming up with these essays, I really do need a break between them ( Read more... )

Hey all! I meant to keep up posting from DC, but with the walking the feet off and all, nothing was coming out polished. I do need to go backdate some of those entries, though; Day 2 in DC is "visit a zillion memorials, including one they don't put on the maps" day, and it is a day that needs a little more...release ( Read more... )

It's finals week! Which means I've got three things to do ( Read more... )

Though to be honest, it's going to be more brain fragments than anything, since despite having gone through Spring Break, I am neither rested nor caught up. Because that's the way break goes; they give you a week, and you go, "I will do so many things!" and despite the productivity you do engage in, it is never enoughAnyhoo, the big thing in life ( Read more... )

Plz to be ignoring, I just need somewhere to put comps stuff. :) (Lock it down? But how will people know I'm alive? ;) )

( Reanalysis comp )

I keep writing these posts later and later, usually because I'm caught up in doing something else: reading, playing with the cat, engaging in a dorky bout of trying to translate Middle English...

(That would be a reference to this particle_person post, which contains a passage from John Heywood and a fascinating question having to do with said passage. And also ( Read more... )

Mmmph. Long day ( Read more... )

All these little things keep coming up, so let's go to a list, shall we?

LIST! OF! UNORDEREDNESS!

• As a follow-up to the Comcast thing--I bitched about it on Twitter and got a message from Comcast Cares, who has sort of made a name for himself as the guy to go to with Comcast questions (if you're on Twitter). He said that the whole e-mail account ( Read more... )

1. I hate being chased by Black Riders in dreams.  And as much as I would like to post in naked_at_school, my dreams of late have all been this side of non-linear and just...weird.  When I wake up with one thought--I HATE being chased by Black Riders!--it turns out not much of a dream narrative comes out of it.  On the other hand, did you know running a car into ( Read more... )