I have come to the realization that I absolutely hate my Native American Literature class. I've been mulling over my feelings on it, and I think today finally tipped it into the "hate" category. We were talking about Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spot (which I haven't read yet, since I'm now consistently half a book behind in that class). The ( Read more... )

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Had my Japanese Art midterm today. Thanks to the rest of the schedule, I couldn't start really studying until last night. Made note cards for the thirty or so images on our list. All that. Actually finished them this morning. Tried to remember dates, mostly failed ( Read more... )

Snowed this morning. It began conveniently after I arrived at my nine o'clock Japanese Art discussion section. I didn't notice until my GTF, in the middle of lecture, stopped to point it out. The window was small, and this girl was sitting directly between it and me so while I could see what was going on outside, I couldn't do so without making ( Read more... )

Election year? The president is out defending a thoroughly illegal totalitarian surveillance program? The vice president may be investigated for pretty obviously leaking an undercover CIA agent's identity which I believe is somewhere in the realm of treason? People are still dying daily in Iraq and Hamas just won a great victory for democracy in ( Read more... )

Court thing is DONE. Resolved. Finished. I was reticent to discuss it on a large scale until it was worked out, since I honestly didn't know what would happen. Anyone on the band trip knew about it (though the fucking rumor that ended up going around said that it was some guy in the drumline. If I'm going to get hit with something like this ( Read more... )

"If the white people never looked beyond the lie, to see that theirs was a nation built on stolen land, then they would never be able to understand how they had been used by the witchery; they would never know that they were still being manipulated by those who knew how to stir the ingredients together: white thievery and injustice boiling up the ( Read more... )

Made a grand realization about my creative writing last night. I answered the question I was supposed to answer last term. Is it possible to reconcile this answer with my now irrevocable LOI of omniscient 3rd POV? maybe, but probably not. Writing sucks shit, and while I'm at it, so does life. And I'm reading Silko's Ceremony and every line I'm ( Read more... )

I was going to post a comment on colleen's latest lj, but that thing last night was so cool it deserves a second post. For those of you who didn't see (which I'm assuming is prettymuch everyone) there was an incredible halo around the moon last night. This large circle, and it didn't look like there was really a lot of cloud cover, but there was ( Read more... )