New rule: two rum-n-Cokes, one hard cider. Damn, that apple shit is strong. And delicious. Professor's (a bar) was playing the Dune miniseries while we were there. Sandworms are phallic. Cue geekery by Jon and me.

I'm eating Jimmy John's at 4am after a lovely evening celebrating the end to this heinous week. What are y'all doing?

Today is the 203rd anniversary of the death of Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. Now everyone turn to your lieutenant and ask him for a kiss.

I have a presentation to give tomorrow, and no matter how I look at it I have so much work to do omg. It's about plagiarism on the Internet--yeah, I know, could it get any more boring?--and I' ( Read more... )

Number of pages in my Jane Eyre descriptive bibliography: 9.

Number of times typo'd title as Jayne Eyre: at least 20.

Number of times typo was barely caught in time: 4.

Number of minutes early paper was printed: 14.

Number of Jaynes corrected in pencil after final printing: 1. So far.

This is gonna be a good day.

I am trying to write a paper on this article, but the article is composed of concentrated boredom. It is an academic sleeping pill. I was sitting in the living room (in a little patch of warm sun) with my laptop trying to read and I just kept finding myself like...staring at the carpet. Because the carpet was more interesting.

I have to watch two ( Read more... )

So, mostly I just ignore the random college-campus scribblings on the sidewalk. I mean, 98% of them are sororities that don't realize the intense irony of drawing a wrapped gift below a slogan about "going Greek."

But this evening, coming back from class, I happened to glance down. I saw a sign advertising Hawthorne Heights was going to be in Kent ( Read more... )

The funny thing is, this perfectly describes my current Warcraft experience as well as serving as a metaphor for graduate school.

Mac Hall!

Why, hello there, brick wall. You're looking particularly impenetrable today.

Yeah, so I have an assignment for my Rare Books class that...I just don't get. She wants us to do annotations of bibliographies, and I don't know what that entails--I get annotated bibliographies, but now we're supposed to annotate things that are...already annotated ( Read more... )

Well, the world didn't end, but Jon and I chased a possum out of the hallway with a broom, so I still call it a win.

Okay, so the prospect of grad school is becoming rather unpleasantly real now. The due dates on rental DVDs are the day classes start. The end of the ten-day weather forecast doesn't even apply to me. And Saturday will be my last day at the library.

Yesterday they had a party for me. I kind of thought there might be something, since they had a ( Read more... )

So I walked to work today.

It's a little over a mile, and yeah, it was kind of hot, but judging by the reactions of my coworkers you'd think I had decided to cross the Sahara barefoot. I'm now under strict orders to call and have them bring me in the next time I don't have a ride. Even super-environmental-lady made me promise.

It wasn't even that bad ( Read more... )