I really shouldn't still be up. I have work at 8am and it's 12:45am already. Despite having a verrrry long day of cleaning, I'm surprisingly awake. I'm sitting on the couch in the living room, with two of the three cats, talking to Ravi and Sean as they mount our new TV. On Black Friday, Ravi bought a 52in flat screen, which prompted he and I to ( Read more... )

Here's some pictures from after graduation:
( dorkus mccorkus )

Faulkner ( Read more... )

I am curled up in bed with Ravi, wearing my brand new, super soft robe and eating chocolate-covered bing cherries. Oh, the extravagance ( Read more... )

Ravi and I just exchanged presents (well, about 20 minutes ago) and I love love love my gifts! I'm only updating right now because he's cooking and I'm done with most everything else I needed to do).

I got:
Jhumpa Lahiri- Interpreter of Maladies (She also wrote The Namesake, which I really enjoyed)
Gogol- The Diary of a Madman, The Government ( Read more... )

I'm sitting at work right now, wondering if the doctors will take pity on us and close the office early. It's looking doubtful, but since I'm "non-essential personnel" (and my boss is out 'til Jan 5), I might leave early anyway ( Read more... )

FIN ( Read more... )

I'm currently in the midst of my finals rush. I'm writing what will, if the stars are aligned, become a fifteen page paper, so that I don't have to write a 5 page final. The paper is on the history of signification and modes of black expression, with particular focus on the slave narratives of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass and criticism ( Read more... )

Cue the gong!

Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving :)

Ravi and I, plus his sister, Maanasa, drove to Houma Wednesday night and stayed the night at Ravi's parents house. We watched an "Arrested Development" marathon and had Thanksgiving lunch, before heading back to Baton Rouge.

( On the way... )

There are certain things in my life that are spiraling out of control. In an effort to completely ignore not focus on those issues, here are some of the nicer things going on/coming up ( Read more... )