Oh LJ, I have been so busy and productive, you don't even know. But I am happy. Really really ( Read more... )

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For Lit Club, that is :-p I need to bring in some quotes for tomorrow. I can't do this, I'm too nice and too much of a prude :-((( (Exception: the SU Religion page has become positively caustic. Like, melt-your-eyes-out caustic :-p)

We're reading Possession in British Novel. Which I read over Thanksgiving break, and I'm kind of managing just ( Read more... )

And how ~significant~ it is this year, given the inauguration tomorrow. Our entire convocation/assembly for MLK Jr Day was not focused on Obama's soon-presidency, as I thought it might be, but certainly it was a pervasive theme throughout the speeches given. As it well should be. I still...am a little bit in disbelief, that tomorrow - after eight ( Read more... )

First week down. Too quickly, if you can believe that :-p

Things today were good. I continue to enjoy Flaubert's Parrot, even if it's such a strange post-modern/anti-novel that that's all we talk about in British novel, and I'd like more in-depth/just more other criticism of the book. Then I ran to Deg (brisk walk really, but everything's brisk in ( Read more... )

I was giving myself tension headaches today. On the third day of the semester. Yes :-p It's partly because I have a lot of stuff to do, and partly because I want to do it all ~perfectly.~ I, at one point, expressed a desire to be perfect here, and was working toward that in a myriad of ways (intellectually, health, physically, personality. Whatev ( Read more... )