I'm actually posting this from the gym, because it seemed worth it. I was cooling down and thinking about my upcoming encounter with a certain person with a certain kind of face, and I realized that though this year has been really, really hard so far, it really is making me a better person. Maybe not a different person with different values, but ( Read more... )

People are always saying to me, "Imagine if xyz happened to you/someone said xyz to you/someone did xyz to you - you'd act just like I'm acting ( Read more... )

I want to study children's literature. Victorian novels are sweet and all, but when the chips are down, all I'm ever going to want to do is work with children. Their representations in fiction, the way fiction for children reflects cultural views, the way it affects portrayals of them in other works, the way characters depicted as childlike connect ( Read more... )

I have a new blog! It's www.thisdegree.blogspot.com. I probably won't update this one much, if at all...perhaps the occasional friends-only post. But...yes. Check me out.

Holy shit ( Read more... )

I made my first-ever meta joke. Not a particularly great one, but still.

I have arrived.

And so it continues ( Read more... )

Last night was phenomenal ( Read more... )

So I'm here ( Read more... )

Home ( Read more... )