Apparently, this has become something of a topic for me. Read more here. What do you think?

So lately, I feel like I've seen a lot of news articles dealing with alternatives to burying the dead. There was that article in NYTimes last week or so about a company called Ladies in White I believe (it might have been Women in White but that makes me thing Wilkie Collins which means that's probably not right and it is in fact Ladies...rambling ( Read more... )

Does that mean there are at least 37 less earthworms in the world?

In other news, barely have a page of that awful H.D. paper that's due tomorrow.

Again wasting time, but sometimes, journalists know how to be witty ( Read more... )

I’ve been thinking about stress lately, well I’ve been thinking about a lot of things lately-like how More’s Utopia is so amazingly modern and compassionate one moment and then so cold-bloodedly chilling the next. But what I wanted to say was that I've given into my natural tendency to stress more than usual lately. I've been wondering what I’m ( Read more... )

Now I have regaled some with my adventures in North Brunswick but I forget who, and so in order to avoid being irritatingly repetitive, I’ve decided to type it up and you can read or skip it at your leisure.

So, on Tuesday election day, class had been cancelled [not for patriotic reasons, mind, my professor’s wife had a baby], and so I thought ( Read more... )

Life is spiralling out of my control again. I had applied to grad schools, gotten rejected, gotten myself excited about JET [teaching English in Japan], then got a last minute offer from a grad school that had already rejected me and now I'm confused. I think I'll go with the grad school because if I want to go I should do it now; if I apply again ( Read more... )

things are looking bleak on the graduate school front. having said that, i feel better. in the meantime, the rejection list lengthens.

So, I've one paper, two finals, and one portfolio to go. And as I decided rather last minute to apply to one MFA Creative Writing/Poetry program after talking to Matt and my workshop instructor, I have created even more work for myself. In other news, despite the fact I've paid them lots of money, somehow ETS has not managed to get my GRE scores to ( Read more... )

So there’s one more Boland poem I want to post. Actually there are a couple more, but I’ll restrain myself. If you liked any of the poems I have posted lately, definitely check out Outside History.  But this really truly will be the last of my Boland posts.
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I worked indefatigably [doesn’t that word look fake?] to finish my apps yesterday and ( Read more... )