ZOMG I GRADUATED!!!!!!

Yay me! There were tears (many, many tears), but mostly happiness, and I not only got my diploma cover (diplomas come later, in the mail), they gave me a pen, too! How cool is that? Also, there was food. Yay food!

Becky came to cheer for Celeste, Wendy, and I, since she's not graduating until next year (we promised to return ( Read more... )

Thanks to an 8 AM final, I am now at this point effectively done with my last term of college (knock wood).

Well, damn. That was fast.

The alumni association had a festival-type thing in the amphitheatre today for all the seniors. There was a raffle (which I didn't win, but that was OK because the raffle ticket also served as a 20% off coupon for food at Rennie's, so yay lunch!), and Celeste, Wendy, Becky and I all got our pictures taken with the Roving Mascot Duck Guy, who was ( Read more... )

Today, Olivia finally got the big present I had been promising her since Christmas. David Sedaris came to town (yay!) and we went to see him, with Mom in tow.

As I figured, it was spectacular and hilarious. From the random 16-year-old he got to introduce him (damn kid...it coulda been me!), to the already-published stuff he read to us, plus his ( Read more... )

Today in Superheroes, we had a visit from Greg Rucka, who wrote one of the Wonder Woman comics (The Hiketeia) we read for today. Lots of elements of Greek tragedy (plus the Furies!), very cool, and Batman gets his ass kicked. I highly recommend it.

Apparently, hiketeia is an actual ritual that shows up in The Iliad and The Odyssey. Yay for learning ( Read more... )

They are making a movie of Edward Gorey's The Doubtful Guest. I am both happy and hoping that it will not ruin the goodness that is Gorey forever. Next up: The Gashlycrumb Tinies? *crosses fingers*

Also, there is a new adaptation of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar in the works. It stars Julia Stiles, and is going to be humorous and avoid becoming "a ( Read more... )

I just got a breaking news email about a barn catching on fire in upstate New York after a police assault.

It wasn't in upstate New York, but on April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth was killed after hiding out in a barn...which soldiers had surrounded, and set on fire.

ZOMG REPETITION OF HISTORY.

Sort of.

As the good comic book scholars that we all are in Superheroes class, each time we start a new superhero, we spend the first day discussing their earliest appearances. Prof. Saunders has an entertaining slideshow, we make jokes, it's all very nice.

Now, Early Superman was all about social reform, with stories about safe driving, supporting the ( Read more... )

I went to see Evan's senior recital/thesis tonight. Since he's a composition major, the entire recital was (of course) the things he had composed.

It made me cry.

Not because the music was all tragically sad (really, I suspect it has everything to do with the fact I'm the biggest damn wuss on the face of the planet), but because hearing the recital, ( Read more... )

I can't stand Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud". I guess there's just something about its sunny, dance-with-the-flowers-and-all-will-be-well message that just grates on my black, cynical little heart.

I can't deny, though, that this rap version (I mean, rap version done by a squirrel) is unendingly hilarious.

Check it, and word to your ( Read more... )