My Mikhail Bakhtin response. I'm also pretty proud of this one -- I managed to turn a good chunk into my Tolkien paper. Speaking of which, that paper went fantastic. I have strong hopes of sending it off to a journal soon. so, if anything good has come out of my time here, that's one thing ( Read more... )

My response to Derrida's Specters of Marx. Probably the most engaging writing I did of the semester.

( A Response to Derrida’s Specters of Marx )

For my Contemporary Critical Theory class this semester, I've done some truly AMAZING responses to various writers. I've done Bakhtin, Derrida, Fanon, and Judith Halberstam. Not only are they insightful, they're also really well written. I'm quite proud of them. And since intellectual issues are so personal to me, I"m going to do a series of lj ( Read more... )

Oh geez -- it's been so long I nearly forgot my username! What an old loser fuddy-duddy I've become ( Read more... )

I don't know what I expected when I came to Murfreesboro, but I'm surprised at how affluent the area seems to be. The boulevards are exceptionally wide and spacious, the residential houses are gorgeous, the lawns neatly kept. All this I saw in the 5 miles I walked from the Greyhound bus station to the couchsurfing.com apartment I'm staying in. ( Read more... )

Okay, y'all remember the old Disney cartoon, The Sword in the Stone? Apparently it was a book first. The plot's much too episodic for it ever to be considered a GREAT book, but I must say that I'm impressed. It had humor, loads of knightly courtesy and British good manners. It was surprisingly informative -- lots of details on jousting, boar ( Read more... )

Few feelings are quite as odd as elation at a personal accomplishment of which you cannot feel proud. Grad cafe clued me in that Middle Tennessee State has posted descisions on their website, so of course I rush to check -- and, of course, I completely forget my password ( Read more... )

Derek at work is the funnest person to have conversations with ( Read more... )

I'm crushingly depressed this evening -- we're talking about entire bag of chocolate here. Just found out that my bookstore's closing and that I will soon be joining the ranks of the unemployed ( Read more... )

So yeah. . . I'm going to be *that guy* today. I have absolutely the BESTEST BEST GIRLFRIEND EVER. She mailed me a Valentine's Day care package today. Due to the mail system it arrived a day early, but same difference. Anyway, she got me a package of socks AND a coaster. (She knows me so well.) AND, in addition to a perfectly lovely card, she ( Read more... )