Just learned yesterday that I have satisfied all of the requirements for my masters program. I cannot stress enough how much of a relief this is; my last class was very difficult and I just knew that I would not pass and would have to wait until Spring semester 2015 to complete my degree (that's when the class I needed to finish would have been ( Read more... )

What I'm Reading WednesdayJust finished J.K. Rowling's latest Cormoran Strike novel and it was as adorable and fun as I was expecting. I'm a huge fan of Rowling's world building skills, but have always felt that she needed work on her endings but with this novel she must have obviously listened to her editor, because her ending was both plausible ( Read more... )

Saw X-Men last Friday and I still do not have the words to articulate just how much I liked this movie; it hit every note I needed it to, and those first 45 minutes were the most thrilling I've seen all year, and, yes, that includes Cap 2 which I liked A LOT (seriously, after Avengers and the first Thor, by FAR the best Marvel movie) and, gods be, ( Read more... )

I'm finally done with the bulk of my graduate program; just one more class to go. It has been a very stressful two years and I am very much looking forward to a break while I figure out my next move. I still have a very strong desire to move to London (I'm a Chicagoan) and get my MFA in Creative Writing, but with $50,000 in student loans, I need ( Read more... )

It's been awhile since I've posted here. I'm still around, just devouring Thor fic on AO3. I still refuse refuse to get a tumblr, but the will is getting weaker and weaker. Grad school continues to swallow my life whole, and, of course, I'll be signing up for even more school. I wish my life were more interesting, alas, I'm still boring me, just ( Read more... )

I enjoyed the film but I did not have the visceral need to watch it again, again, and again like I did with the first film, and the casting of Cumberbatch is problematic, through no fault of the actor's, I enjoyed what he did with what he was given, but this won't be on my list of all-time favorites, which makes me sad. I wanted this movie to be

I've finally finished my first semester of grad school and to quote my favorite supervillian: "I'll take that drink now".

1) The last thirty seconds of the Thor 2: The Dark World Trailer. The rest of the trailer is meh, but, oh, The Hair makes up for it in its sheer AWESOMENESS. I don't care what anyone else says, that hair needs to stay ( Read more... )

One more week until my jail sentence is over, and by jail, I mean my first semester as a grad student. Overall, I'd give myself a B-; I'm usually super fail at being a student but I started off strong, lost myself for a minute there, but I plan on finishing strong ( Read more... )

...ugh, what it says on the tin. This semester continues not to be over; I can't make myself do any of my homework, even the paper that was due two weeks ago, I am super unexcited about summer school, I'm so over babysitting my cousin's kids but I have no idea how to tell her that without starting a big to do, but, but, I am really excited about ( Read more... )