Ack. Am officially freaking out. My writing sample, despite having lots of smart ideas that are in certain ways thematically linked, I’m still scrabbling around in the dirt looking for the actual argumentation that will hold them together ( Read more... )

I love that Error's babies eat her dead body and then they all go "ka-blooey!" all over the place. It’s yucky. Hehe. I also really wish that The Redcross Knight would take a shower after he has Error’s blood, puke, pamphlets, poison and exploded offspring splattered all over him. Icky. It’s hard to imagine Una (or even False Una) wanting to ( Read more... )

I will give a reward for the most creatively insulting definition of ETS and GRE ( Read more... )

“[Spenser] became not merely an apologist for a monarch and a court that, after 1580, he was to visit rarely, and then with a complex (and probably painful) sense of bewilderment and betrayal, but for a policy of such racist brutality that even C.S. Lewis, Protestant Ulsterman and admirer of Spenser only just this side of idolatry, summed up by his ( Read more... )

So chopped, diced, shaved, and boiled down, here is the remaining nugget of my thesis as represented on my academic CV ( Read more... )

"What have I-- What have I-- What have I done to deserve this?"

-- this quote brought to you through a cooperative effort by Bono, The Pet Shop Boys and Angela

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I got up at 5:45 and have been working (basically) ever since. I is 12:38 am on what used to be Friday night.

I am sick of work. It's time for . . .


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I have gotten “nothing” done tonight yet. I cooked food, did dishes, did 4 loads of laundry (even sheets and towels!), and tidied up the living room, but I still haven’t gotten any Important Things done. That said, I have a false sense of accomplishment from all this domesticitiy, so I feel entitled to write a post before turning to grad aps and ( Read more... )

My Wednesday ( Read more... )