Oh hello, it's a 2010 update. Hope you all had decent holidays of whatever sort and a good New Year. I shall post more soon, but for now, have a meme I stole from terrorcandy.

Give me a character from one of my fandoms or just something I watch/read too much of and I will tell you ( Read more... )

Despite Terry Eagleton being a wacky bitter Marxist critic with whom I am increasingly coming to sympathize over the past few days anyway, he does on occasion make a sane and incisively-phrased point that I feel compelled to re-post in my livejournal. Like this one, about the notion of reading for fun ( Read more... )

Happy Saturday ( Read more... )

Because this meme looks to be low maintenance and procrastination is fun, I shall post it here:

Name a fandom and I'll tell you 3 pairings I love, 2 pairings I consider shipping, and 1 pairing I hate.

I will let you know I am terrible at hating things, though.

So, probably because it goes along well with a side of academic self-loathing (still can't remember a damn word of Greek to save my life, yay), I've decided I loathe my hair and something must be done with it. And so I turn to you, dear friendslist--what shall I do with my hair? Dye it? What color? Cut it? Devise a new way of styling it? IDK KIDS ( Read more... )

Last night, around when I went to bed, I checked the weather to see what the temperature was outside. It was 37 degrees, which with all the damp and ick and extraneous was apparently more like 32, which for all of you non-Americans on my flist is I believe pretty close to 0 C. Oh, I say to myself. I know I'm pretty fucking cold, but that would be ( Read more... )

You guys, I have such an intellectual boner for Vergil right now. Allow me to demonstrate:

"Arma amens capio; nec sat rationis in armis,
sed glomerare manum bello et concurrere in arcem
cum sociis ardent animi; furor iraque mentem
praecipitat, pulchrumque mori succurrit in armis."

TRANSLATION: Out of my mind, I take up arms; there is not enough ( Read more... )

-So, there's school, which is swallowing up my time during the week like it does. Classes are: Vergil's Aeneid, which is basically all about how I'm not sure where Vergil has been all of my life and I want his brain and my brain and Ovid's to have a brainthreesome (haters of the Aeneid: WE CAN STILL BE FRIENDS, I'll just judge you--kidding, of ( Read more... )

( new desk, an owl, and library findings behind cut )

There are days where I'm sure I've hit rock bottom when it comes to the lows of nerdery. Like, I just can't get any nerdier or go any lower. But, you know, Nerdery's a nice place, and rock bottom is actually a nice level space on which I can build a house. A cute one. Which I have. It's a little dark down here, of course, but I've installed lights ( Read more... )