I don't know what to do with my life! I don't even know if this graduate program is right for me!

I'm fretting.

Today is my first day of school. Grad school, that is. I'm equally anxious and excited, but at the moment it's very difficult to feel anything but anxious. I have this nightmarish image of walking into a small class and being the only one who didn't take it upon herself to read scads of preparatory material on the literature social protest, the ( Read more... )

I really, really want to see Broken Flowers, but it's not playing in Connecticut.  Blasted limited releases! 

Oh, espresso, my heart for you. <3

Lord. The air conditioning has decided to stop working just for our floor. It's in the 90's today, by the way.

I have resorted to folding the papers in my "In" box and using them as fans.

Reason for a giant celebration, kids:  I completed Jane Eyre!  At long last!  I'm rewarding myself with Me Talk Pretty One Day, which I've been meaning to read for ages and which I know will be a welcome relief from the incessant run-ons and clunky words of Victorian literature.  (cs_luis  and svenskaa, I expect a clamor of excitement from the two of you over ( Read more... )

Please, will someone buy me everything in this store?

...Please?

It's about time I update this thing.

• It's pre-Conference time at the office, which means chaos (!!).  I leave for Chicago on the 31st.  The downside:  This is my first Conference so I'm bound to bungle things up and feel painfully overwhelmed within the first ten seconds.  The upside:  I get to listen to "Dear Chicago" on the way there.  And play with my new iPod!
• I accepted Trinity' ( Read more... )

Which is bigger news? Getting to look Ryan Adams in his eyes and say "hello" or getting accepted to Trinity College for my graduate studies?