On formulating a thesis for my Crusades essay on fully tracing the origins of the crusading movement and accounting for the lay response to Urban II's speech at Clermont in 1095 ( Read more... )

I'm about to go boldly where no man has gone before ( Read more... )

I'll lead with the title being one of my favorite lines in Macbeth..so subtle, so ironical. Anyways, speaking of, I went to my first rehearsal today, and I'm SO EXCITED about this production ( Read more... )

I just lost the worst 5 lbs of my life. For those of you worrying, I haven't been exercising, but I did fall victim to the vicious snare of library fines. If you think Oxford is hard core about libraries, they're even more hard core about fining you when your late with books back to them!

So I followed up on this reference in an episode of the West Wing about a banned book from Pres. Bartlett's boarding school flashback. Turns out the author was James Baldwin. I hit up wikipedia and found some great quotes I wanted to post from him. A few of these will probably end up in my signatures on emails soon ( Read more... )

"I wasted Time, and now doth Time waste me; For now hath Time made me his numb'ring clock. My thoughts are minutes, and with sighs they jar their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, whereto my finger, like a dial's point, is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears ( Read more... )

tonight i had a pub date with Aoife and Antoinette, two friends I met Thursday evening at the Charles James Fox Society dinner ( Read more... )

wow...revising/writing my essay on egypt still, and noticed this note i had put in.
i laughed.

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i'm so honest.

:)

egypt, why you so easy ( Read more... )

The Ball was AMAZING. So much classier than any sort of collegiate dance gathering I've been to in the states (although I've yet to make it to a King and Queens at W&M (or the Charter Day Gala for that matter). I'm back in my room and will start in earnest this essay on Othello due tomorrow at 11:00...Ahhh. I've got one page already. It shouldn't ( Read more... )