I love my state.  I must, to keep living here despite the rampant hatred and stupidity that controls our destinies.  Y'all didn't know that anti-bullying legislation was geared to further the "homosexual agenda," did you?  Hell, I was just surprised there still was an agenda.  I would like to note that most of the New Orleans area reps voted in ( Read more... )

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Took a break from finals Saturday night to go see Thor.  Initially, I was excited to see it because Kenneth Branagh directed it, and I knew he would make it all Shakespearean and shit.  He didn't disappoint.  What he also did was make a superhero movie like I remember them from my childhood, big, operatic, flashy, colorful, melodramatic.  I fucking ( Read more... )

I haven't been around at. all. for the past few days.  Wrapping up Practicum stuff and sickness have put me into apathetic ennui-land.

But I will say I have a Practicum site (YAY!) and it is awesome.  I was actually offered two sites on the same day, but chose the one I was most excited about that I felt did the most good. (note for ffrmusicwench: [and others ( Read more... )

I haven't posted here in...how long has it been?  Not months, or anything, but for a semi-regular poster it feels like something close.

I'm reaching the countdown !!DAYS!! until my Practicum paperwork is due (NO EXCEPTIONS!) and I am still not firmly placed.  This is...something I can't even talk about still because if I think about it too hard, it ( Read more... )

I cannot talk anymore about my failed attempts at getting a Practicum, how no one is calling me back even, and how this makes me wonder about karma and relive all the shit I've fucked up in the past couple of years.  Talking about this right now makes me want to cry.

I will not talk about anything I've watched on TV this past week, how TV bores the ( Read more... )

So here's the deal.  When I read a book about the love of books, as I recently did, and books I have not read are mentioned, it makes me want to read those books.  As was the case in Among Others regarding Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber.  It so happens that I have been holding onto a copy of the Complete Chronicles, a loaner from my brother (also a ( Read more... )

[title bears no relation whatsoever to the content within, I just felt like a dramatic title was in order]

1. HAPPY SIMON PEGG'S BIRTHDAY!!!!!  I know for some of you, this day has some other significance, possibly influenced by the marketing schemes of jewelers, but I see differently!  And not just because I hate Valentine's Day!  Really!  I hated ( Read more... )

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1. Why couldn't I decide I wanted to go to graduate school for something easy, like History, where all I would have to do is read a lot and write a bunch?

2. I've been thinking some more about Patti Smith's Just Kids, and about how during that time in our cultural history, "art" meant something different, and to be an "artist" created a separate ( Read more... )