I am 90% packed. This is as good as it gets. I need to find one more library book to return to the public library or risk making a tradition of leaving library systems with exactly one book overdue. I also popped my last university library book - The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkein, which would probably have been quite interesting if I'd ever made it ( Read more... )

Call me a bitter undergrad, but everyone's about to get the pedagogy lecture. (We know I've jumped the shark because I said "pedagogy" with a straight face.)

First: if you are writing on a blackboard, stop talking.

Second: if it's important, put it on the blackboard. Like this: "important term: means this." Corollary: no tangent should be longer ( Read more... )

I am staring into the paper, and the paper is staring back into me.

Sadly, if I were trying to write about science fiction, or insane internet fangirls, this would be a thousand times easier. Possibly because I don't feel apathy toward the source material. Unlike my feelings toward Lucy and The Piano. I feel love, cynicism, mocking and wonder ( ( Read more... )

Spring break isn't over until 1 minute before my first class. That's my story and I'll stick to it, even as I'm doing my women's studies homework and angsting over my postgraduadtion plans. Because hey, nothing says science love like ignoring the world to reread midlist novels and contemplate the nature of the universe. Doris Egan's Ivory books are ( Read more... )

kate_nepveu read the first four Russell/Holmes novels recently and while discussing A Monstrous Regiment of Women says, "not only does it set up false choices for Russell, it then deliberately takes them away from her!" She also mentions Gaudy Night. ("[S]uffers badly from wanting to be Gaudy Night and failing miserably." Ouch.) The juxtaposition of those two ( Read more... )

"Are you saying that no matter how screwed up I was, you'd still expect me to work wonders?" Appalling.

She considered this. "Yes," she smiled serenely. "In fact, since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same."

It wasn't just his father who ( Read more... )