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... )

finish her fundamentalism paper tonight. Which is ahead of schedule kind of - it's not due until Monday afternoon, I would've been okay with working on it tomorrow too - but not really because nevertheless I still will only have 2.5 days to crank out my Shakespeare paper. Which, I was just imagining the excruciating pain that is going to be. I don' ( Read more... )

(That G stands for Goodness, to avoid blasphemy :-) )

My lack of updates this week (seriously, since Monday?) does not reflect slack-liness nor apathy on my part, LJ, it reflects that I've been so gosh darn busy I have to make sacrifices in my life somewhere. I had a presentation/leading discussion in Religious Fundamentalisms about women in Islam ( Read more... )

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So, the highlight of today was having dinner with a couple of seriously wonderful people. Me and Jess and Jordan went to dinner after the Lit Club meeting, had a good time. I realized that I've been complaining and whiny, like, a lot recently, so that will be tempered from here on out, but they listened and were sympathetic and helpful <3 And just ( Read more... )

I really did; they're a shimmery purple. However, I was also working on Hebrew and Greek and whatnot and was just a busy busy biblical scholar bee

Greek is really awesome, btw, we're working on the Didache so it prompts a lot of discussion (/lecture) on how churches work now, compared to then. I got asked - and was unable to answer :-p - whether ( Read more... )

A lot of homework. Why do I do this to myself

It sucks a lot though, I got an email today that Joe, a participant from our RCIA class, died on Monday. Which is the third death in two weeks that I've been aware of, although he's the only one I knew personally. But how damn unexpected; he was young - the obit said he's survived by his mother, which ( Read more... )

Yeah, like that (the comic in the subject line; incidentally one of my fav xkcd strips. Although the most recent is pretty damn kickass) will excuse my terrible behavior today. You know what I had for dinner? COOKIES. Well, no, first I had a piece of ham and a cup of coffee, they were good. But they had nice lovely chocolate cookies out, and...I ( Read more... )

Ha, not really, I am Catholic :-p But in religious fundamentalism, we were talking about the conversion experience, how much different churches stress the "saved" moment versus those that would rather have continued participation even at the cost of attracting fewer people. So we had a pastor there (Mennonite, I wore modest clothing but he wasn't ( Read more... )