I realized that I never wrote about the Gogol seminar/discussion I went to a week ago. Then I thought, well most people probably don't care all too much. But then I realized that this is my journal and I can talk about Russian literature whenever I darn well please ( Read more... )

Julia: So what does your fortune cookie say ( Read more... )

Every calendar in our home had the word 'CAVE' scrawled in the large, deliberate handwriting of children on the date of July 25th. Courtesy of my brother ( Read more... )

I had a dream that Melissa, Melanie, Alex, Ally and I (just noticed all your names pair up according to first letter. WHERE IS MY OTHER J? *sad face*) were all at some sort of shindig and Melanie had her iPod playing. For some reason it kept playing the same song over and over again but no one (besides myself) knew what the song was. And for some ( Read more... )

I forgot how much I liked Kurt Vonnegut!

What I find worth exclaiming about right now is the continuing applicability to the human condition, years after free will has ceased to be a novelty, of what jazzed Dudley Prince back to life, of what is now known generally as Kilgore's Creed: "You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to ( Read more... )

Off to Japan for three weeks! Hope everyone has a wonder-filled time while I'm away and try not to die, ok?

<3 Julia

Finals start today! F. MY. LIFE.

First up is my Great Conversation final in about an hour in which we have to discuss in groups of 4 one of three questions for half and hour (we won't know which one until we get there):

1) which work, Wolfram's Parzival or Dante's Divine Comedy offers a richer road map for the Christian who views his/her life as ( Read more... )

Two weeks until I leave for Japan for 3 weeks.

What a way to kick off the summer, eh?

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions:
Put an x next to the ones you've read.

( I love me some literature )

Because he was a fungi! Oh, biology. Why do you have to jerk me around so? First we do population genetics (which gives me oodles of joy) and then you throw fungi at me. Where did I go wrong? Anyway, if you do not enjoy the natural sciences - and if you do, but are not particularly fond of fungi- then I suggest you avert your eyes. For I am about ( Read more... )