First TA lecture today, short and sweet. Totally sat in front in the corner with other similarly-bespectacled comp. lit girls and a Senegalese guy. Passed out syllabi. Got my teacher face on ( Read more... )

Aaaaaand things. Austin is awesome, I made some more friends, I made some more life decisions, I backed away from one that's been taking up a lot of my time and emotional space ( Read more... )

SOOOOOO this online high school English course that I am currently privy to has really cleared a lot up for me in the past hour or so. To wit:

• Hamlet was for sure faking that crazy thing
• He only felt pity and anger, on a rotating basis, toward his mother, and
• The play's conflict is Hamlet vs. CLAUDIUS (!?!?)

Glad that's taken care of, I'm sure people ( Read more... )

So it's been 119 weeks since I posted last, apparently, and my changing that up is only really for kicks and to keep another communication line/possibility open with some of you. And who(m)ever else. So.

• Infinite heat
• Probably lucked out with my roommate, she seems great
• Need to practice German more
• The tap water's set point is lukewarm
• Haven't quite ( Read more... )

I was reading about Berlin today, and scared myself by not being able to remember where streets are, which restaurant had that plackard, what that specific train station looked like and lead to. It's like I have to choose.

Re-connected with a few kids from high school today, which was nice and sunny and reassuring. The weather is gorgeous, and it's breezing through my apartment and across the quad and the grass is really green. Some of my classmates-turned-friends from my German class and I hung around the Eternal Flame for a while, feeling old, and I got some work ( Read more... )

Intro ( Read more... )

It was Berlin-in-November-[and-December-January-February-and-March] weather today, so I was thinking about it and thus a little off most of the day. We saw a cry-inducing documentary at nine in the morning, with nothing but the promise of four more hours of class to follow. Next class, to illustrate a point, we were instructed to write about the ( Read more... )

My critical theory class received a 44 point curve on our midterm worth 100 points.

Justice abounds, and there was much rejoicing.

My life makes no sense.