I figured I should update now, since paper season officially starts today/tomorrow, and I'll be pretty much M.I.A. till mid-May once it does ( Read more... )

Those quotation marks are meant to be accompanied by the bending-of-the-fingers-in-midair motion, along with a healthy dose of sarcasm. And by all of this what I'm trying to convey is that in some ways grad school has been more like the stereotype of college than my actual undergrad experience ever was ( Read more... )

So, I survived the weekend in Dante's Inferno and made it to the other side safe and (mostly) sound. I'm still not quite caught up on sleep, but we're getting there. There are only three more weeks of class after this week, and then final papers. But since I did the translation over break, I only have three final papers, and I think it will be ( Read more... )

Meaning, of course, that I'm spending the next two and a half days at our graduate student-run Dante conference (10am-11pm Friday, 9am-6:15pm Saturday, 9am-noon Sunday) listening to thirtyish graduate students from around the world blather about Dante. Let me tell you how excited I am... oh, that's right, I'm not excited. Ugh. But, you know, ( Read more... )

So it's been almost twenty days since my last post on here... whoops. That's what happens, though, when you're having a pretty damn good time on Spring Break. So I'll fill you in a bit on what's happened in the meantime ( Read more... )

I know, you've all been waiting at the edge of your seats for this moment: the revelation of Taylor's 2010 Oscar Predictions. Well, they're here now, whether you were eagerly awaiting them or not. Oscar ballots were due a couple hours ago, so nothing that happens between now and Sunday night can affect the results. To paraphrase what someone ( Read more... )

Busy, busy, busy, as always. Been working like crazy to try and get things done before Spring Break next week. I have a 5-page paper due Friday, and I've already got that sucker outlined and ready to go. And I'm way ahead on my reading. This is exactly where I was hoping to be work-wise because I want to get the translation done over break and ( Read more... )

The weather here is so dismal. Just non-stop rain for days and days. And it's frustrating knowing that if it were just a few degrees colder, it would be piles of snow instead. My umbrella broke halfway through the day today, so now all I have is this ridiculously large golf umbrella that's sort of embarrassing to use by myself. But that's ( Read more... )

Today we were walking home from a real chill evening at the grad student bar (when I say "real chill," I mean that our table of six was half of the crowd), watching the pairs figure skating and cheering for the Chinese husband-and-wife pair with the sweet backstory (they're in their 30s, which is old for figure skating, and they came out of ( Read more... )

Some days you wake up at 8:30 because you have to go to class. And some days you wake up at 8:30 because you have a doctor's appointment. And some days, like today, you wake up at 8:30 because Anne Hathaway is going to read you a list of nominees, and you absolutely have to know as soon as humanly possible what she has to say. So I rolled out of ( Read more... )