$500 Poetry Prize! Wooo!

I have my first-ever phone interview for a job at 8:15 tomorrow morning, and it's from overseas. I'm pretty sure I'm going to barf with terror at least once before then ( Read more... )

!!!!!!

So, I got an email on the English Dept. mailing list--apparently, a large Czech lawfirm is looking for a Grinnell senior to hire for a 1-year position as a proofreader/editor. The job is full-time, with good pay and benefits, and you get to live and work in Prague!

I'm pretty sure I need to apply for this RIGHT FREAKING NOW...

Possibly the most valuable thing I've learned as an English major: you can sing virtually any Emily Dickinson poem to the tune of Gilligan's Island.

Seriously, take a whack at it:
http://www.andover.edu/english/jgould/singingmuse/sillysets.html

So, Grinnell somehow managed to snag a one-night performance by the St. Petersburg Ballet, which is currently touring the U.S. They did a version of "Carmen," but it was this crazy techno-remix thing, and it was FREAKIN' AWESOME.

So, the divorce was finalized in November. I just found out that my Dad's started dating someone, the widow of someone who used to work at his firm. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about all this...

John Wayne with a terrible Swedish accent in a John Ford production of three Eugene O'Neill sea plays = the biggest WTF in human history ( Read more... )

Wow...2008 is off to a magical start as The Year of People Asking Me If I'm Lesbian. Not that I've ever noticed, family members, but I'm glad you're okay with it if I were. You get your PC points for the day.

Also, who's in Madison? What would you say to dinner some night out at my place?

My friend Alyssa is going to be playing on "Jeopardy"! I'm really vicariously excited!

In other news, I really want to stuff my two seminar papers down the toilet and just go home.

One of the upshots of living in a liberal enclave in Iowa this year:

-Earlier this semester: Madeleine Albright
-Last month: Bill Richardson, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton
-This past week: Barack Obama, Joe Biden
-Monday: Bill Clinton

And yet, I am still so, so underwhelmed and apathetic.