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lurching forward.
I think my thesis-writing faucet has finally come unblocked, after beating at it for a few days now: I just wrote upwards of 500 words in the 10-15 minute train ride home tonight, after midnight and blasting dance music in my ears. I almost missed my stop. I walked home, dazed, still dreaming in words, fitting thoughts to prose, sketching out the ( Read more... ) -
premature nostalgia, rather than working.
because sometimes you just need to ramble about your (lack of) future prospects, and how much you'll miss your beloved classmates come June.
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Armitaged and unashamed.
Ever since I visited the Boott Cotton Mill Museum in Lowell, MA last summer, I have been head over heels CRAZY about the early industrial mill towns. Crazy about the Industrial Revolution in general: the relationship between labor, building, manufacturing; the rise of workers’ rights, women wage-earners, the transition from making in the home to ( Read more... ) -
the "crazy cat lady" event horizon.
When I'm not daydreaming about fannish things - like how I finally watched X-Men First Class and how I'm finally moving forward again on The Wire (currently in Season 3) - I daydream about my eventual crafty homestead, in whatever form it might take. You all probably know or at least suspect this; exhibit a, exhibit b, exhibit c, exhibit d. You ( Read more... ) -
hobby lobby.*
coworker: So what did you do this weekend ( Read more... ) -
obsessions du jour.
I zipped around the Northern Midwest last week on my "spring break" (not actually so breaky, but lovely to see so many of my PSU and MS peeps again - also, I may have fallen in fascinated-love with Detroit?) only to come back to pure ridiculous school stress. I am Not Excited about this. Is school the sort of thing you look back on afterward and ( Read more... ) -
out-nerding Nerd U.
me, this evening: Oh hey, it's the 15th! It's the Ides of March!!
everyone around me: *blank stares*
me: Oh, you know... "Beware!" The Ides of March!
Andres: ... What are the Ides of March?
me: The 15th! The day Julius Caesar was killed!
everyone around me: *more blank stares*
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how to spot a fangirl in the wild.
One of my housemates is moving out, so the other one and I have been meeting with prospective roommates this week. Not my favorite thing to do, but okay ( Read more... )
