So I didn't sleep last night. Not because I was finishing my essay. I finished it at 3:30 AM. I just didn't want to go to bed. So two Wake-Ups later I was feverishly playing CS, watching South Park, and generally wasting time that could have been better spent. Then I came to the realization that today is my last day of undergraduate classes. The ( Read more... )

"Who the fuck is that?"
"Josh Groban."
"SHUT UP!"

The 2008 Reading Week Reading List

- complete Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables
- complete Joy Kogawa's Obasan
- read Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
- read Margaret Sweatman's Fox- do research for 25-page undergrad thesis ( Read more... )

This course looks at the ways in which dissonant histories - histories that are "out of tune" with orthodox habits of coherence and judgement - can occasion a purposeful disturbance to naturalized orders of knowledge production in Canada.English profs are funny sometimes. You just can't help but be skeptical of anyone who uses the word "occasion" ( Read more... )

Paid one pound for ten minutes of Internet access at Heathrow Terminal 3. Here way early for my 1:00 PM flight. Just thought I'd say thanks London, it's been a great visit.

Sarah just sat down beside me with a mug of chicken soup and London tabloid (she likes the gossip columns, oddly enough), which makes me simultaneously hungry and bemused. Blair is playing some Gooch tunes and bobbing her head almost imperceptibly. This room has extremely high ceilings ( Read more... )

I don’t want to dwell on this issue, since I’ll soon be leaving to see my beautiful and intelligent girlfriend in England, and am therefore in high spirits, but I want to get it out while it’s still fresh. As I mentioned, I will soon be leaving for the UK to see Sarah for the first time in person in four months. With this in mind, I wanted to look ( Read more... )

"You know what's amazing about Michael Bublé? He's a giant bastard!"

Based on my own research and the advice of the amazingly awesome Smaro Kamboureli, I present to you the schools to which I will be applying for graduate studies in English ( Read more... )

God I hate annotated bibliographies.