• I've usually been indifferent when it comes to the Olympics, but all of a sudden I'm finding myself really invested this year. Go USA!
  
  
• I don't talk about movies all that much here, even though it's usually what takes up most of my time and energy. Anyway, I'm a little behind and just noticed the news about Colin Firth in Dorian Gray with the ( Read more... )

I didn't even have anything I want to look up or look at, but I was still thrown into a state of frenzy when I found out that IMDb is not working ( Read more... )

I. After my Art History final this morning (which did not go well, but I'm not really all that concerned about it), I came back home, had lunch, and took a nap. During said nap, I had a dream that I was the Pope. It was so vivid that when my cell phone alarm went off, I was actually still thinking I was the Pope ( Read more... )

01. If I had amnesia, I would rewatch The Sixth Sense because I had that spoiled for me before I watched it for the first time ( Read more... )

Spain and Aix-en-Provence were amaaaaazing. I'm "home" now - got in not that late last night but I'm exhausted now as it's been a long, long, long week. So many things to update on la-poo it makes me more tired to think about it. But if any of you are interested, the pictures are already up on FlickrRight, just wanted to throw a quick "Hi" out there ( Read more... )

Relatively speaking, I've posted more often this month than almost every other month since I got this journal back in 2004. And now I realized just how old this journal is. Wow ( Read more... )

I just made a post in list form at la-poo and the longest point I made was about my lost umbrella. Perhaps I get too attached to things ( Read more... )

It's amazing how much of a difference one day makes over the weekend ( Read more... )

Three months after a spectacular quarter last spring, I am now at, what I believe to be, an academic impasse ( Read more... )

One of my favorite passages from Middlesex: ( the abridged version )