Eros is often the fuel of the lyric imagination, which chooses to use words, sentences, musical structures of language to re/member the beloved, to enter that inexhaustible source of--not uniquely "carnal"--knowledge which is another person's body and mind.

-Marilyn Hacker

what is the point of any of this??? why am i so goddamn perfectionistic. i throw away my life so i can have a pretty bound stack of papers with my name on it. whoopdeefuckingdo. i want my year back, my life back. i want to care again, to be able to think clearly and not second guess everytime i use a comma. i want to be able to gauge my self worth ( Read more... )

Two nations, both alike in dignity ( Read more... )

"Evoking a range of emotions, from kinky sexuality to sympathy for the cause of Greek independence, the Greek Slave proved enormously popular." -Dyson

lol, i'm guessing the popularity did not largely stem from all that Greek sympathy going on *amused*

i have 31 thesis pages! im not a total failure!

i was driving home tonight and saw three guys riding bikes down edgewood- one on this enormous red bike, like 3 times the size of a normal bike. it was so utterly random that i'm nearly convinced i've begun hallucinating, but i think (hope?) not. i am so beyond stressed about my thesis. truly beyond stressed, which is kind of nice as im past that ( Read more... )

fuck microsoft fuck tech support and fuck my laptop for dying when i only have 3 weeks left to write my fucking thesis! fuck!

various quotes from my prof that proof that classicists are the craziest of the academics ( Read more... )

why am i still awake ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel so worn down by the world. The prospect of interacting with people and getting things accomplished is just a little too much. I ache all over, inside and out, and all I want to do is go lay in the sun until the stars come out. I met with my (other) advisor today, who (ever so helpfully) advised me to write 10-20 pages a week for my ( Read more... )