I have decided that starting April 24th, I will be traveling and visiting friends for 2 weeks. If you would like me to visit, please let me know. I plan on visiting South Bend on May 4-5. I plan to also visit Chicago. If you're in the Chicago area and would like to hang out, please tell me what dates between April 24th and May 8th would work. ( Read more... )

For those of you who are either in or have gone to graduate school, how does it compare to K in level of difficulty and amount of work? I realize this is different for every school and whether it's a Masters program or a PhD program, but I'd like to know.

Since I realized last night that I've completely forgotten livejournal for nearly a year, here's an update to what I've been doing and plan on doing ( Read more... )

How do people survive this? The day before every SIP deadline is a rush to get it done. I feel like i'm BSing everything this quarter. I feel like living off campus was pointless, since i get the loud music at night from one neighbor, and the viola from another neighbor. I'm sleep deprived with no time to make up the sleep. I feel behind ( Read more... )

I don't know why, but I have no access or recollection of what I learned in Spain. Even from my literature class, I couldn't actually list who we had read when I was talking to my advisor. I couldn't even remember Machado or Unanamo, even though they're among the biggest names of that period. Or that I read a play by Lorca called Bodas de Sangre ( Read more... )

As I ask myself all the silly little questions, I come upon one ( Read more... )

Happy New Year (though I am still an hour early).

Life goes on, actually, it's going quite well despite everything that's going on. Hope everyone is well.
y prospero ano nuevo.

Since I am going to Spain soon (Sept. 15th), I decided to create another lj for Spain. It's espanaselenja. I haven't decided whether I will post pictures to yahoo or some other method. I will let you know when that comes up. If anyone has suggestions for what has worked for them, I'm open.

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