Well, I've moved up from having three papers still to begin at the end of the term, to just one. So, progress! I've written over 50 pages since last Friday... the last paper waits till the far side of Christmas ( Read more... )

Today, at long last, I finally sent off an e-mail to Temple's Concert Choir (the group I sing with) inviting any interested singers to join me in an early music choir this next term. I already have about five potential singers from personal conversations, but I'm hoping that I'll get a fairly strong response and can put together a strong and ( Read more... )

So one of my papers due in a few weeks is related to issues of censorship surrounding the Grand Theft Auto games, in particular last year's GTA San Andreas. I naturally decided it would probably be a good idea to actually play the game a bit before writing the paper, but since the censorship problems it faced made it hard to acquire for the last ( Read more... )

Well. Or at least, October in Philadelphia feels a lot like late December in Portland ( Read more... )

So I was really supposed to get to the library today. Lots of studying to do. But now it's late ( Read more... )

Earlier this week, I began writing an alternative livejournal as a sort of tongue-in-cheek exposé on romance and whatnot. I'll probably be adding to it for quite a while, I have a whole lot of material... if you're interested, here's the bio info, and the link ( Read more... )

I finally finished Dante's Divine Comedy tonight. I've been slowly working on it since I wrote a paper on Mazzoni's 16th century defense of the work (well, defense of literature really) a couple years ago. I think, in hindsight, I was slogging through a reasonably scholastic and faithful, but not necessarily artful, translation (the Carlyle-Okey- ( Read more... )

For those of you who haven't actively looked at your info page in the last day and a half, malinalda has apparently decided to delete her livejournal. Since it was really her that got me to post online at all, I thought it appropriate that I at least call people's attention to her decision. Here's hoping that she changes her mind before they purge.

I've been very interested in the international reaction to the Katrina ( Read more... )

So I finally got both of the remaining outstanding grades from last spring reported today, which means that my fellowship is coming back. I already received the tuition remission, and I expect the pay-my-bills money to come back soon as well. This is all very exciting, since bills need to get in the mail by tomorrow at the latest. But the most ( Read more... )