In a feeble attempt to make myself do stuff, here's a list of stuff I have to do ( Read more... )

I'm inordinately anxious about grad school ( Read more... )

When you stop taking birth control pills and finally get around to having your hormones all balanced-like again, you remember how much PMS sucks. I'm having trouble convincing myself to read Dante and write a response paper. Or do anything except lay in bed and cuddle with my dog (who is talking in his sleep right now) watching clips of the Daily ( Read more... )

Got an email from Princeton; did not get in. This news would have made me so sad if I had applied several years ago, but since Elaine Showalter retired, Princeton doesn't have anyone I particularly want to work with ( Read more... )

Notre Dame! I got in!

This is my favorite poem, I think. It makes me cry, and makes me think of my grandparents. Which is probably why it makes me cry. It's also so beautiful. And it's smooth like butter, except when it's mildly awkward, imperfections that make it better. The use of "throbs" and "throes" may be the two ideal uses of the words, and the final two lines ( Read more... )

Phew. I got an A in my history class.

Also: Organic Wine and Tamora Peirce and Garlic & Goat Cheese & French Bread for dinner and cute cats and a cute dog and hot fudge sundaes for dessert make for a fine vacation.

Mariah Carey is the only person I can stand to listen to talk about Jesus. Why is that ( Read more... )

Done with finals! Emailed my last paper (Periodization Pitfalls; Simplification and Marginalization, or some such) at 5, had dinner at Bistro Europa. Delicious latkes, but the server gave me Brut instead of Prosecco. Which, first of all I don't like Brut. Second of all the Prosecco was $1 less than the Brut but over twice the volume! So he didn't ( Read more... )

You know that feeling you have when you go out and eat a huge dinner, and eat like a huge one-pound-of-beef burrito and then you have a food baby sitting in your belly that makes you feel like you're kind of slouching when you walk ( Read more... )