Quick question (synaesthete7, it's mostly directed at you, because I know your blog has an RSS feed, but anyone else who understands what I'm asking, feel free to jump in ( Read more... )

In about an hour and a half, I will no longer be an employee of West Circle Complex. Nor will I be a student. For a month, I will be an unemployed, not-taking-classes bum.

I'm looking forward to it immensely.

My computer appears to have massive issues. It either makes weird whistling noises when I turn it on (and then nothing happens) or it tells me that I have no mouse plugged in. When I very obviously have a mouse plugged in. Bah ( Read more... )

I just got back from a theater performance that included abduction, abandonment, seduction, slavery, witchcraft, potential disembowelment, and an attempted forced marriage.

I am speaking, of course, of that pinnacle of stage performances, ( ... )

Flannery O'Connor, after visiting MSU in the mid-1950s: "I met some of the English faculty and they were a very disgruntled crew. They said their library was brand new and specialized in the second volumes of trilogies ( Read more... )

I had so much fun at the migrant camp tonight. (In case I've never mentioned this, I've been working with a literacy program this summer, reading with Hispanic kids at a migrant camp south of where I live.) I worked with Briana, the so-called "demon child" of the camp (her regular tutor was gone), and she did really well. We actually went for ( Read more... )

Amusement of the day: my next door neighbors setting up what looked to be a tennis net across one of the side streets and playing some sort of game that involved hitting balls (couldn't tell what size) back and forth. I think my primary amusement in this situation is that they were blocking the street ( Read more... )

(all lists are in no particular order)

From tdslappy, 5 literary protagonists I want to smack:
1. Scarlett O'Hara (from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell)
2. Emma Woodhouse (from Emma by Jane Austen)
3. Caleb Williams (from Caleb Williams by William Godwin)
4. Angel Clare (from Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy...I think I'd smack Angel ( Read more... )

Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things. Copy and give your own top fives if you want.

It's official...Ukraine, leaving September 30th!