Certainly there is no England post coming any time soon (though duchessofpower, remind one of us to send you the pic of you and me in the bonnets, and the one of you behind the rock ( Read more... )

Last night, of_polyhymnia, beautiful_rain_ and I had a fun an exciting girls' night out, with convenient extra credit for English class, that involved pizza and gelato on the Downtown Mall, and then going to see The Libertine, which, while not a great movie, was at least fairly decent, and did involve some spectacular acting on the part of Johnny Depp, for which I could quite ( Read more... )

This would be the Transnational Texts and Gender class, not the Shakespeare one (though in Shakespeare today she lectured on a reading of Hamlet that I'd actually never heard before, which was really cool ( Read more... )

My brain feels remarkably like mush right now, and I haven't even gotten through as much studying for the English exam tomorrow as I should have. Not to mention the fact that I need to pack to go home after said exam, and straightening up my room really couldn't hurt either ( Read more... )

And in the lowest deep a lower deep
Still threatening to devour me opens wide.

-PL, somewhere in Book 4

God, I love Buffy.

The rain today! Walking back from discussion, the umbrellas were just failing to do anything at all. Sheets of pouring, soaking, drenching rain--and, oddly but conveniently, warm rain. So beautiful_rain_ and I ditched the umbrellas ( Read more... )

It's been a long week. And I'm just incredibly grateful that my Arabic test tomorrow is on grammar and things that I instinctively just get rather than vocabulary, which I would have to actively learn ( Read more... )

*sigh of relief ( Read more... )

I have two completely unrelated stories to tell ( Read more... )

A lot of small but funny things happened today that amused me. In my Arabic discussion, for instance, our professor told us that we had to start getting better at grammar, because now, if we mess up, everyone will laugh at us ( Read more... )

Today was a reading day. And I did, in fact, spend it reading...specifically, studying for my English exam. I read far too much Middle English. It makes me sleepy. :-)

Really, though? That's all I've done. All day long, except for taking a brief library break to watch an episode of Buffy with of_polyhymnia and beautiful_rain_. Well, and dinner with Tommy, which ( Read more... )