So I have a television confession to make. I'm pretty well-known in my family for literary sacrileges like announcing at the dinner table that "I don't like Steinbeck" or "I just don't think Huck Finn is especially well-written," but I don't usually horrify and offend everyone with my taste in movies, music or television. It was only a matter of ( Read more... )

Reply to this meme by yelling 'WORDS!', and I will give you five words that remind me of you.
Then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you.
I got mine from earis1. Algonquian - Academically, this is supposedly what I do. Of course, in the words of one of my favorite profs in the field "I'm a white linguist. What do I know?" And that' ( Read more... )

Lady Gaga may secretly be a genius ( Read more... )

In grad school, I have often found that my brain requires (disturbingly long) periods of inactivity in order to gear up for springing into action. It’s like letting dough “relax” before forming it into loaves. Except with me some times you get loaves - or academic papers- and sometimes you get short stories or songs of questionable musical merit or ( Read more... )

no. not the computer, me ( Read more... )

walking down Cayuga street drinking a CTB smoothie and holding a bunch of kale from the farmer's market as if it were a bunch of flowers on your way to return an overdue travel book to the TCPL ( Read more... )

It feels like summer and it smells like fall ( Read more... )

I saw this on Wing's journal a while ago. Now I'm just procrastinating...

( Meme )

...but I'm not. There's nothing specifically due tomorrow and I should be doing all the things that are due on Tuesday or Wednesday. But that's somehow much harder than it would be to do something that would, hypothetically, be due tomorrow ( Read more... )

I have been a grad student for about a week now. I've also had internet access on a regular basis for a few days and I am liking it a lot. I still haven't gotten the hang of the fact that real things actually happen over e-mail and I need to check it often ( Read more... )