I'm doing a little better after yesterday's jolt, but I've come to loathe academia so much that I don't even want to finish this last course of mine ( Read more... )

A Happy Samhain to those who celebrate it. Now the wheel of the Pagan New Year begins another turn.

I saw terren_divided last Saturday for the first time in years, which was great. and last night, I spent Samhain dining out with em_fish, jenjoou, maidenofirisa, montrealais, rougemacabre, and her husband.

Otherwise, it's been quiet. I've been writing. I spent the morningworking on an essay about how ( Read more... )

So last night was a lovely birthday party at rougemacabre's, who was a marvellous hostess as always. The dinner was marvellous, and I had curry for the first time ( Read more... )

This has been a good day already, and it's scarcely mid-morning. I did 20 pages of editing very early, and I'm now about a half-a-week ahead of where I need to be in school. I'm reading goood books, getting plenty of hours at work (but not too many), and gradually getting my space in order again ( Read more... )

I finished my exams today -- I think I did better on today's than on my last one. There were only two questions, and they were on works I'd studied well ( Read more... )

The worst of my two exams is over. The test was really difficult, but I think I did well on two of the three essays, if slightly incoherent. There were only four of us in the room, including a friend of mine ( Read more... )

AcademiaWell, today's the day -- the nastier of my two exams. I've prepared about as well as I can, and my brain is brimming over with dates and facts ( Read more... )

Just a post to announce that I'm not dead ( Read more... )

Finishing Henry IV, part 1 is a little disappointing. It was the first time I'd read a Shakespeare play without stumbling across one of the famous quotations or sayings -- no "Romeo, Romeo," no "All the world's a stage," no "To be or not to be ( Read more... )

Reading Henry IV, part I by Shakespeare. I'm loving it. I'm surprised it's not more popular -- I think his use of language is at its height, there, and his characters are even more interesting and better developed than in most of the Shakespeare I've read ( Read more... )