My SMP adviser, the fabulous Kate Meatyard, told me today that I was doing everything right with my SMP, was well on my way to being done, and that she was proud of me. And this was before she found out that I emailed her another 14 pages of text. Great people make everything better ( Read more... )

Writing 70 pages (as a goal) for my senior project about tattooed mummies leads me to a few conclusions ( Read more... )

My picture is hanging in the Maryland State House in Annapolis. I'm horribly vain, so this is a big deal ( Read more... )

Dear God(s),

I will believe in an afterlife (i.e. heaven), and a world beyond corpse decomposition, if it is Halloweentown and I may frolic with Jack and sing songs about ghouls while hanging out with the one-eyed mummy boy. And here, my tendency to decorate myself and everything else with spiderwebs, bats, and black cats will normal practices ( Read more... )

Today, I finally got to order a new computer! It's a pretty black Macbook:


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Last semester wrapped up pretty well. My poem about Celery (and how it is the spawn of the devil) was published in the fall edition of the campus literary magazine, Avatar. I also was cast in The Vagina Monologues doing "My Vagina Was My Village." It's intense, but I've gotten really good feedback so far. The performance dates are February 9 - 11 ( Read more... )

At about midnight last night, I found a show on the National Geographic channel showing the digitized life of an elephant from sperm through fetus and decided that although I have no desire to carry a human creature around for 9 months and give birth, I would gladly undertake a 22 month gestation period if I could instead birth an elephant. How ( Read more... )

I'm giving up the real world and becoming an eleterrorist, fighting for the rights of elephants around the world.

This would entail:

+ Laying waste to villages in the path of elephants
+ Poaching poachers
+ Kicking zoo directors in the groin
+ Birthing wild elephant calves
+ Snuggling with elephants at night under the beautiful starry sky

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Tonight, I auditioned for the Vagina Monologues next semester. I may have a fair amount of work in the Spring with SMP and whatnot but this is my last year and I haven't been able to do it before so I had to try out for it. I read from the vagina was my village and the one about a woman pleasing women which were the ones most appealing to me from ( Read more... )