"Difficult ordinary happiness ( Read more... )

"Soon after Hearn's death in 1904, his Japanese widow made a list of some of the things he had 'liked extremely.' It is a curious list, yet a revealing one: sunsets, the west, summer, the sea and swimming, banana trees, the Japanese cedar, Martinique, folk songs, Kwaidan (ghostly tales), beefsteak, insects, and lonely cemeteries. He also liked plum ( Read more... )

Here is an article about why grad school may not be the answer:

Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go

God, totally sick the last three days with some kind of food poisoning/flu type of horrifying. UGGGHHH.

So, lately I have been trying to fill the guilty pleasure reality television void in my life that has been left by the absence of Project Runway and America's Next Top Model. I have been giving the new season of Top Chef a test run because everybody seems to be really into it, but I have to say, I haven't been super into it so far. For one thing, ( Read more... )

For the record, I just want to say, I am very upset about Proposition 8 passing and I would never defend the actions of the LDS Church in contributing to this travesty of justice. However, pointing the finger and making some pretty outrageous statements about minority ethnic and religious groups because of it's failure seems massively problematic ( Read more... )

So, I started a blog dedicated to reviewing all the movies I see and my friends are writing reviews for it too. I figure since I already watch one or two movies every week, this will be a great way to get me to write more consistently and be more thoughtful about the movies I see. It's nice because I don't have to work so hard to think of something ( Read more... )

Some things for me to be aware of:

I think that I need to make a list of ideas for fun projects I can focus my energies on instead of obsessing over nothingness and also a list of things I should start to do so I can stop being ridiculous.
( Here we go )

Can I just lay some stuff down right now? If you are in your twenties, odds are you ( Read more... )

So, lately I've been trying to write an lj entry and failing, mostly because I have been pretty depressed and I can never write when I'm depressed. Today was a better day though and this week I started a book called Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick, which has been strikingly on point with how I've been thinking and feeling lately. The first ( Read more... )