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the real world. kind of.
today, i was feeling mopey and icky for no particularly good reason when chris called and asked if i wanted to go with him to the yarn store, since he was taking musicmargarita. i decided to go, mostly to not be bored and alone and mopey ( Read more... ) -
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Academic work standing between me and my senior year:
1) a completed translation of the Tale of the Two Brothers
2) a 3-5 page grammatical analysis of the same
3) an 8 page paper about the fact that neither Jesus nor Paul founded Christianity
4) a 6-8 page paper about astronomy in the Coffin Texts
5) one Coffin Texts class
6) my Modern Middle East ( Read more... ) -
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yay, will engasser, captain of the men's hockey team, bought rosa, dave, chris and i shots tonight at toads. hurray.
also, spring swing=fun and YJE=awesome. plus, we found steely mcbeam on facebook. yes! -
Yay!
I got an email this morning saying I won my big national fellowship, the Beinecke! It's $34,000 for graduate study, pending admission to a graduate program.
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the sun is at high declination!! zomg, (that means it's spring!)
also, my archaeoastronomy class is being kind of dumb! like always. and hurray, we have an exam on thursday.
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links
hurray, being stuck in an airport for hours!
First, I've just read the whole archives of this sweeeet web comic in one sitting.
Second, BASEBALL!
Third, the world is not a friendly place. I watched The Lives of Others last night, which was great but really quite terrifying, especially with our own government being terrible about respecting our ( Read more... ) -
hmmm...
it seems ironic that while i was reading this i was also doing other things, on my laptop from a hotel room... but still, this article is interesting, and frames things somewhat differently from how i had thought of them before.
Dwelling in Possibilities" -
religion
some articles i read today about religion! interesting stuff.
Two from Atlantic Monthly
On Secularism
On African Revivalism and the conflict between Muslims and Christians
Feminism, the Taliban, and the Politics of Counterinsurgency -
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so many good news items today! this one about the politics of academia is cool.
on the semi-colon
in which the jews blame the gays for god perhaps the best of the bunch? at least the funniest to me.
then there are the italians...