For the benefit of anyone who reads my LJ but not my blog (baraita), a certain old-school Citadel BBS, or (God help me) my father's family's newsletter -- yep, I'm engaged. To, of course, the most wonderful man in the world. And the next person who hears that we are getting married in June and asks "which year?" is getting thwapped. :)

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Because I am currently just a little homesick, a meme -- with comments added as per the admirable misia.

( Here's to the land of the longleaf pine / The summer land where the sun doth shine.... )

So some people on my flist are talking about the Lambeth Report, and others are talking about the Red Sox-Yankees marathon (was anyone outside Manhattan actually rooting for the Yankees?), and now I'm starting to imagine Rowan Williams trying to get under a pop fly to right field ( Read more... )

Poetry meme from all over my friendslist -- pass on a passage of your choosing. Or, in my case, the original and the translation. (Yes, that's cheating, but I'm seeing mostly English poems, and I thought it'd be fun to shake that up a bit. Also, I think the translation is absolutely super up to the last quatrain, where it starts losing me.)

( Spanish by Borges, English by Wilbur. )

I should be revising articles, or filing, or something. Instead, I am huddled in two sweaters (today's office temperature appears to have been chosen by polar bears) exchanging emails with, um, a non-colleague, and thinking rather vaguely about fanfic. I am not a fanfic writer, you know. On the rare occasion when I do write fanfic, it's because ( Read more... )

Best Quiz Result Ever. Or at least this week.


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For those of you who don't read my other blog, I want to make sure everyone's seen this faux-fifteenth-century "manuscript" of the Lord's Prayer in KlingonFrankly, I wouldn't've thought Klingon lent itself to theological reflection, but then every time I say something like that one of my colleagues tells me I need to hush up until I watch all of ( Read more... )

I had one icon slot left, and yahtzee63 was kind enough to make icons from some wonderfully pulpy covers in the Vintage Paperbacks & Digests archive. I couldn't resist this one for fairly obvious reasons.

The book is actually about peep shows on Broadway -- yes, she's wearing a sheer body stocking, and that is a giant bowtie she's sitting on. Just the ( Read more... )

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