I've been given the most daunting of tasks at work this summer. The University Archives have 534 boxes of information on 'Notable Grads.' These files were assembled and maintained for roughly the first half of the twentieth century, after which, I presume, it simply became too daunting of a task. There are 99 files per box, one per person. Files ( Read more... )

Who knew that a meeting could leave me so ecstatically happy?

A budget meeting at that ( Read more... )

Palmer || Was that the Pharaoh's daughter? says ( Read more... )

I was given poetry today - much about my wrists. Later, back at home, I watched my wrists sink into the dishwater and then wrote this:

Dishes(For lack of a better title ( Read more... )

Beautiful
- Yes, you are beautiful -
But, Meredith, you're sublimeHe is all contrasts, blacks and whites: he recites poetry from memory, leaves lit incense cones on sidewalks in middle night, has wandered around Paris a vagabond - or he trips out on acid, falls into trouble with the cops, purposely scars his arms with patterned burns. (What was ( Read more... )

I felt like writing. And was thinking about how to translate Sapphic stanzas into something that could work with English. (Read: I am not good enough to deal with real metre.) I don't pretend that these are good, but they're maybe a start to something.
( Sketches )

porcŭlātor, ōris, m. [id.] ,

I. one who rears young swine, a swine-breeder

I think I've been sick for long enough now. Hear that, body ( Read more... )

Bah. My body has decided to give out on me and come down with something that may be the flu. I don't want the flu, because it makes me think of grade 10, when I had the flu for two and a half weeks. Be strong, body ( Read more... )

I got the same (but very good) mark in all of my courses.
Strange.
It feels unreal, as if my profs all got together and said "We think she's worth about..."

The computer at my aunt's house is broken. I have no LiveJournal; no MSN. Whatever will I do?!

Now for a little bit of substance: Sappho fragment 105A

as the sweetapple reddens on a high ( Read more... )