So, there are only so many themes one can have for a Halloween mix. I've already done "just generally creepy" and "dead people talking"--next year, I may have to really get creative or just reuse "creepy." "Creepy"'s not hard. But I actually did come up with a theme this year. Before Polly crashed, I used to have a playlist called "Oddly cheerful ( Read more... )

So, my copy of Catching Fire, the second Hunger Games book, came today, and it seems as if somehow I ordered the Large Print version of the book by accident. Hmm. You'd think maybe that would make it easier to read, but the text is actually so freaking big it kind of makes my eyes hurt. I guess I'll get used to it once I actually start reading it, ( Read more... )

Well, survived the first day of the semester. My CMPL 841 class should be okay, I think. There are only five people in it, two of whom I know, which is cool. The reading load seems not bad at all, which is good, because I'm seriously going to have to devote the bulk of my time this semester to figuring out how to teach composition and reading my ( Read more... )

So, I've never done this before, but I actually had some answers to this week's fannish5, so here goes!

The prompt was: "Five canon events that you found unbelievable and wished had not happened."

( Spoilers for Medium, Bones, BTVS, Firefly/Serenity, and the West Wing )

Well, that's it. I'm just not spending any more time on this effing teaching philosophy. It's funny--I'm at a point in the semester where I've actually done just about everything, but now the little stuff that's left is taking me forever to do because I just have no motivation. Whatever. Tomorrow is movie night! I'm spending tomorrow grading my ( Read more... )

I've got a dreadful case of the "I don't want to do anything" blues. Still, I graded another third of my students' presentations (I'll finish those suckers off tomorrow morning before the exam or I'll eat my hat.) I also started putting our group's final course design project together. I still need to go through and add some stuff, put page numbers ( Read more... )

So, today I was pretty useless, academically speaking. I feel like I've been mostly asleep all day. I did my laundry, though, so that's something, and I made some delicious eggplant/potato/zucchini casserole for dinner, so I won't starve to death next week. (I should have renewed my supply of macaroni and cheese while I was at the grocery store, ( Read more... )

Two papers: Finished and turned in ( Read more... )

Urgh. Project: Productivity failed utterly today--perhaps not so terribly surprising, given how burnt-out I was by the end of yesterday. So it's early to bed, early to rise again tomorrow for this procrastinator of a grad student: by cracky, that German Romance paper is gonna get done.

( 'Song on the End of the World' by Czeslaw Milosz )

Poop on a stick am I tired. I've been up since 3:30 working on my Latin paper and I turned it in at about 6:00. It ended up being 12 pages, which...heck, it was supposed to be a 10-20 page paper, so, whatever, 12 pages is in that range. Boy, doing source criticism on medieval Latin texts using databases is a job and a half. The Brepols database has ( Read more... )