Ok, I have to get this off of my chest. I just got back from my History of Southern Africa section, where we were discussing the documentary Amandla!, which is about the role of black South African freedom songs in the anti-apartheid struggle. We were supposed to come up with critical questions about the documentary to present to the class at ( Read more... )

Ok. Midterms are over. Now I just have one problem set, a French test, and three papers until all my work for the month is done. Fantastic ( Read more... )

Oh my god. My astronomy book has the saddest digression ever.

"They are named for delta Cephei, an example of this type of star discovered in 1784 by John Goodricke, a deaf, mute, 19-year-old English amateur astronomer. He found that at its most brilliant, delta Cephei is 2.3 times as bright as at its dimmest. The cycle of brightness ( Read more... )

So...last night I had this awful, awful dream. A mixture of people I know and people I don't were at a British boarding school for some reason doing normal LOL-School-Dream things. And things started to get weird, and for some reason we all had to evacuate, so everyone went up the steep hill in front of the school. I was one of the last people ( Read more... )

Oh hey. Guess what?!

I'm going to be the stage manager for a production of The History Boys! I'm really excited about it, actually. I just had lunch with the director today, and she seems to be really pleasant and have a lot of thoughtful ideas. Also, it sounds like I'm not just going to be a tech lackey. She's involving me in the auditions ( Read more... )

Ok, this is atrocious. It's been over two months since I last posted. Not alright ( Read more... )

Oh hey. Hey there. Hey, Livejournal. Sorry I haven't been posting much. We've reached a pretty steady status quo here, though. I work at the library from ten to five every weekday. Then, I go home and usually someone's there waiting, hopefully Kevin or Otto. And then we all putz around the house, cook, watch tv, etc, until dinner ( Read more... )

Happy Memorial Day. Idk what y'all are up to today, but my parents and I drove up to Springfield, Mass. We went to Forest State Park (which is pretty damn cool) and then this German restaurant for lunch/dinner. It was very German indeed. Nothing but meat and potatoes.

I'm having a crisis of books. I'm reading Twelfth Night right now nominally ( Read more... )

Hey guys. Hmm, just got out of a shower. I've been taking a lot of showers recently. Next final is on Friday--Renaissance Italy. It's gonna be a bitch. Tomorrow, I have to plan out an essay on whether there actually was a Renaissance during the Renaissance or not. I just need to not fuck it up, because I should be going into that with a ( Read more... )

So I just got back from my last French class (potentially, but probably not, my last French class ever) and tomorrow I have my oral exam. I think this is the first French class that I've actively liked a lot. I mean, I guess I liked my junior year French class with Mrs Neumaier, but Dr. Burton is such a good professor ( Read more... )