Happy New Year, everyone! Here, have a giant rant. But before that, let me say that if you care about football and didn't see the glorious game the Saints played, you missed out. It was a great way to start off the year ( Read more... )

So, I'm home, and things are kinda sorta getting done. Kevin and I are getting the apartment solidly put together after bringing in new furniture and rearranging things a lot. I've got two boxes of stuff I brought back with me from my mom's house that I'm working on unpacking and incorporating into my library. There's a lot to do ( Read more... )

Sometimes he takes my breath away. We're watching Arrested Development in our living room, and he's curled up on the couch with his head on my thigh and one hand in front of his head on my knee. Everything about him is so beautiful I almost ache to see him, the way his hair wants to curl, his profile, the shape of his wrist. The shadows his ( Read more... )

We went to Sami's birthday party in Lafayette last night. Kevin drank lots of beer, because there was a keg. I had about two glasses of wine (sangria, hooray) spread over three and a half hours, so I drove home. We left Sami and Adam's a little before 2am. It's just under a 2 hour drive back to our apartment. We were very nearly back in Jefferson ( Read more... )

In the hopes that being publicly accountable will shame me into keeping up with my word counts, I have a journal for posting my NaNo ... novel ... in. If you've had a username you don't recognize add you in the last few hours, that's because it's me ( Read more... )

Rachel and Doss have been with me this weekend, which is lots of fun. Rachel and I went and roamed the Quarter yesterday while Doss and Kevin were at VoodooFest. The plan was that there would be a party after Voodoo at a friend's house, but said friend turned out to be having a lame night and falling asleep, and the early arrivals to the party ( Read more... )

Comps (Monday) went as well as could be expected. I'm very unsure of how the take-home part is being graded, in terms of what standards are being applied, so I can't speculate on how well I did that. My in-class portion I feel more confident about; I wrote two essays coming out to six pages in just under two hours. The first was an examination of ( Read more... )

Next Monday, October 17, I take my comprehensive exam for my masters degree. This is one-half of my graduation requirements (the other half is my thesis defense next March-ish). I have the first phase of a syllabus done; I just have to go through and pare it down a bit more and pick specific poems for about half of the poets x.x I have all of the ( Read more... )

(re subject line: It's song lyrics. I don't need to wish for rain when we're getting absurd amounts of it without my intercession ( Read more... )

Things have happened. None of them are hugely life-altering, just finances-altering. Have a bullet list because yes, I'm really that bad at updating these days ( Read more... )