( cut for gushing about various social things )

Hah! I finished a first draft at 7:45 this morning, after working on it fairly fruitlessly until 9:30, feeling miserable but not admitting it for an hour, and then physically removing myself from my essay until one in the morning, when I threw up from stress + postnasal drip. Then I felt better, dozed until 1:30, and started working on my essay ( Read more... )

( A longish account of my awesome day )

Sail picnic today was fabulous, I was on a boat with 5 seniors and the people who owned the boat had brought their granddaughter along for the ride. I spent most of the ride hanging out with the granddaughter, who is very bright and fun to talk to- I think she was late elementary-school age, but she was two grades ahead so she was starting middle ( Read more... )

The City on the Edge of Forever is really really amazing. It's definitely my favorite so far.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

I just finished writing this bit:

At this point, apparently for the first time, Oidipous and Teiresias want the same thing and are going about it in the same manner: each wants to prove his own innocence and righteousness and prove the other to be vile and wrong, and they plan to accomplish this by shouting angrily and flinging bits of information ( Read more... )

YES. IT'S ALL BEEN WORTH IT. I actually learned something new about Brave New World, which is amazing, because I've read that book 13 or so times now. Well, I'm not sure I've come to any definite conclusions, but I'm aware of my perplexity, which is almost as good.

Things I want to explore:

( Cut for Brave New World spoilers )

I had a really good seminar! I always take notes so I can have something to refer to in case of paper or whatnot, and so I can remember the opening question. I noticed that today we ended up concluding the seminar with the same kind of question that we started with, and I think we actually came up with a lot of good answers for it. And in between, ( Read more... )