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Never have I seen such amazing knitting.  Reason #585 that I want to see this movie!  (Plus,  the house looks very much like where I lived in New Orleans!)

As part of both (1) Christmas break and (2) preparation for teaching two class sections about Generation X next semester (btw, if anyone has reading suggestions for that, let me know), I watched Before Sunrise and Before Sunset back to back last night.  I still love those movies.  They still remind me of myself.  I really like Linklater's style (I ( Read more... )

Having turned in my last paper today, it felt luxurious to take this meme from ( Read more... )

I have a completed paper to turn in on Tuesday, but other than that, I'm done for the semester.  I've got a list of things to do in December, but I'm trying to let myself have some down time before I tackle my December list:  work on the MA reading list, review French for the foreign language test, work on my paper for the Appalachian Studies ( Read more... )

Am I the last person to discover that "Get Down, Make Love" was originally a Queen song? 

From my paper on Edward II ( Read more... )

What started as an ironic subject line:

Cincinnati Zoo pairs with Creation Museum

is now sincere:

Cincinnati Zoo not pairing with Creation Museum

The quick turnaround time is probably due to their fear that I'd have to come up there, and would bring the cd I'm listening to at the moment--Barry Manilow 's "The Greatest Songs of the Eighties"--I think ( Read more... )

I declared my Faulkner paper, due tomorrow, done a few hours ago.  I've been working on Proust since then. I'm taking a break now to eat dinner and watch Extreme Home Makeover, a terribly guily pleasure which I really think ought to be catalogued as pornography--I mean, what other phrase besides "cum shot" could you really use for the moment when ( Read more... )

"Her grandmother fisted her idea ( Read more... )

After several revisions, I finally have an abstract written which is acceptable to the professor. Now, I just have to write the paper!

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