As previously documented, I do my best thinking in the shower. The shower is where I came up with my Biggest, Bestest Conclusion for my Race and Ethnicity class last semester. Today, however, I realized that, despite the fact that I am now officially a Religious Studies minors, I don’t actually ever think about religion in a non-historical fashion ( Read more... )

Oh Spring Break ( Read more... )

I have lost all will and motivation. I mean, I think I lost it about two weeks ago, but it became devastatingly clear today. I was awake by 8. A whole day, with no where to be, lay in front of me. And what did I accomplish? One poorly written page of a paper I don't understand, that we haven't talked about in class, and that's due on Wednesday. A ( Read more... )

Grades are stupid. That's really all I should say. LC posted grades today, and I got my lowest GPA of my college career. Not that I did terrible, but it wasn't up to my usual standards. And by 'usual' I mean 'maybe a little too high ( Read more... )

Do you ever get really intense, split second flashbacks? Or daydreams? It's been happening to me a lot this semester. Flashbacks, mostly. Which is totally understandable. I just had the best six months in my entire life. So a trip back to the Queen's Arms or hiking in Crete makes sense when I'm stressed out and staring at the blinking indicator in ( Read more... )

It's funny how we look back at our life through the lens of nostalgia and see a perfect world where you had friends and school was interesting and you breathed sighs of pure contentment, in awe of the world ( Read more... )

 Apparently, it's been three months since I last updated. I think that maybe a record for me ( Read more... )

So I have this great idea for a thesis. It combines many of my favorite things: Britain, naval fiction, and Gilbert and Sullivan.

“The British Navy Remembered: From HMS Pinafore to Horatio Hornblower.” It would examine how the British Navy during the Napoleonic wars was viewed by those with recent memory (Gilbert and Sullivan, 1870s) and how it’s ( Read more... )

Work-- Oh work. Here's what made me laugh today ( Read more... )

I'm told that it's been six weeks since I last updated. A lot happened in those six weeks, but I won't talk about them ( Read more... )