Ugh. I've got the full-length first draft of a 12 page term paper due tomorrow morning that I haven't started yet, and I am NOT feeling it. It's supposed to be a comparative essay dealing with issues of class, gender, occupation, and family structure in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Mary Barton" and Emile Zola's "The Ladies' Paradise." The problem is not ( Read more... )

I'm greatly amused by the fact that the whole campus is walking around swaddled in arctic survival gear; apparently a drop to 60 degrees is the equivalent of the dawn of a new ice age, complete with giant mammoths and three-toed sloths. Meanwhile, I'm walking around dressed in short sleeves and a butterfly collar like I just got off a banana boat ( Read more... )

We have a 10 month old male donkey that needs a name. Help me out, folks!

Um, someone just gave us a 10 month old donkey. So yeah. We have a donkey now.

*snicker*

Christina, now we just need to figure out a way for you to smuggle it to Austin. I figure you should take it to the bus station and try to convince the person at the ticket counter that the donkey's really two people in a suit. Heheh.

I wait with a certain sort of horrified anticipation for the rest of the shit to hit the fan with the economy. This mortgage/securities fiasco is just the tip of the iceberg, and the credit market is going to cause an even bigger disaster if and when it goes belly-up. There are many securities backed by the credit market, and consider this: this ( Read more... )

This is a link for those friends of mine who are interested in photography of exotic locales. Snagged it from Warren Ellis's lj. Enjoy. :)

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html

Heh. I keep hoping that Vladimir Putin will decide to weigh in on the subject of Sarah Palin's foreign policy experience involving Russia. Can you imagine that conversation? "No, I've never dealt with that moose-shooter. I mean, don't get me wrong, I like Alaskans just fine. I just could never eat a whole one."

Against all odds, and based on class readings, I've actually come to like St. Ambrose. All I had known about him from the history of western philosophy was that he was one of the towering figures of the patristic age, a bishop with a flair for politics who turned the Catholic church into a force powerful enough to defy the emperor. Understandably ( Read more... )

Here's a link to Patton Oswalt's journal where he makes vicious fun of Sarah Palin. Heh. He writes the whole thing as though he comes to like Sarah Palin as the result of a series of vicious head injuries. He sums up one of her interview statements, for instance, as "And also the troops babies eagles 9/11." *snickers* Leave a comment  1 

"I once said no to a mugger with such conviction he gave me his wallet and shot himself."

Ha ha ha!