working on the first chapter of ulysses (and therefore reading it over and over again) is causing me to develop a crush on buck mulligan. if this is wrong, I don't want to be right.

so I already got comments back on the introduction/first chapter, and they were largely positive. my main retroactive freakouts concerned how clear my argument was, which apparently I didn't need to worry about. things I do need to worry about: less jargon. which admittedly I was kind of conflicted about -- stick with the really jargon-y ( Read more... )

via xallanthia, random itunes meme:

1. Open your music collection and set the songs to shuffle/random.
2. Take the first 25 and write the first line or two from each.
3. Have people guess the songs.
4. Strike them out as people guess.

obviously this won't quite be the first 25, as quite a lot of my music lacks lyrics, but you get the idea:

( the songs )

so I just submitted the draft of the introduction/first chapter of my thesis. on bloomsday. how awesome is that?

(also: my mom sent me a bloomsday card. how awesome is that?)

so I'm now done with the coursework part of my ma. next step: thesis. meaning my summer will be all joyce, all the time. please note, despite being done with final papers, my desk looks like my icon times roughly 5. however, as this semester was all things generally outside my own interests (e.g. cold war, victorian, and early american, though I'm ( Read more... )

right, so while discussing lj and fandom and geekaliciousness with parelle over tea on friday, it was brought to my attention that I haven't updated this in pretty much forever. so ( Read more... )

yeah, so, just finished deathly hallows. this snape fangirl's reactions (yes, that could potentially mean spoilers, hence the cut) behind the cut:

( reactions )

work drama? it sucks ( Read more... )

so I'm now officially an ivy league kid. time to start working on the stereotypical arrogance and assholery.

...oh wait. okay, time to start working on a preppy wardrobe?

anyway, memesheeping courtesy of parelleIf you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even ifwe don't speak often (even if we've communicated only via internet&/or ( Read more... )

acceptance no. 2 -- brown this time.

can I get a hell yeah?