It's been sort of a tough decision, but the time has finally come for me to admit that my LJ days are over. One by one, my friends have disappeared from my Friends Page. Most days now, it's a pretty barren sight. And I don't really write in it anymore, either. I've been averaging about a post a month, and that's mostly as a procrastination ( Read more... )

Once again, I've let almost a month go by between posts. Whoops ( Read more... )

I'm in love with movies. I really am. If I could go back in time five years, I would smack young freshman Taylor upside the head and be like, "Do a Film Studies minor instead of taking pointless Archaeology classes you'll never use." But my love of the cinema doesn't mean that I love all movies. It doesn't mean I want to abandon books either. ( Read more... )

Grad school year two has begun. I've had all my classes at least once now, and I think they're going to be interesting, challenging, and beneficial in differing ways and differing degrees. I'm most excited for my two Film Studies courses. I don't know why it took me so long to figure out that film is such a good fit for me, but I'm glad I got ( Read more... )

Long time, no write, LJ. Sorry 'bout that. Been busy, I guess.

I'm so beyond not ready for classes to start. Right now I kind of want to spend the rest of my life watching Bones and reading good books (currently Michael Chabon's Mysteries of Pittsburgh--the more I read of his stuff, the more I idolize him, there's a certain effortless, ( Read more... )

Latin. This is my summer, for the most part. Every weekday I'm in that room from 9-12, except for the 15-minute break we get at the midpoint of the class. We have a quiz every Wednesday and a test every Friday. It's more enjoyable and less time-consuming now that we've finished all the grammar topics and are just doing translation. But I would ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in over a month, but there really hasn't been that much to update. I finished the paper-crazy finally, ended up with straight Honors (the Yale grad school equivalent of an A) this semester, went home for a very rushed but genuinely enjoyable week (got to see the family and Cynshen and Gunnar and Shea and Josh's baby McKenna, got ( Read more... )

I don't want to write this stupid paper anymore. I just want it to be done. I am seven-ish pages to freedom, and I can't muster up the mental energy and will power to just do the damn thing. And of course once it's finished, I'll have to let it sit for a day and then do edits. And dear God, why can't it just be Tuesday afternoon already? I'm ( Read more... )

I'm so close to being done with my first year of graduate school. Now if only I could remove the words "so close to being" from that sentence. Sigh. Paper-writing is going well, I suppose, since three are done and handed in (two twenty-pagers and one sixty-five-page translation+introduction). There's just the one left, and I have till the 18th ( Read more... )

It could be because I've sort of taken the evening off (not completely, I'm going to write some more after this, but for the most part), but I'm feeling pretty zen about everything academic right now. It may take some serious strenuous activity on my part, but I don't really have concerns about making it through what I need to get through in the ( Read more... )