My first Literary Theory paper? An awesome adventure in "The Song of Beren and Luthien" discussing the square of active v. non-passive v. passive v. non-active and how Tolkien creates a mythology by doing violence to the signifier, pretending it is full and present when it is actually empty. I seriously loved that paper. If I could, I would totally ( Read more... )

My roommate was making fun of me for working on a report that isn't due until April 20th ( Read more... )

You know you're a DoS when...

... you can't figure out which of the characters you're writing gets the shortest end of the stick.

Sorry, guys. Every time I think I might have given someone a life that doesn't end in soul-crushing fail, I realize that I forgot the end of their story.

Whoops.

There is currently an epic war taking place in my brain.

In this corner, we have research for my Thesis Proposal! This corner is a new, strong corner, as my adviser is a super nice woman and I don't want to let her down!

In this corner, we have learning Japanese! This corner is an older corner but is just as strong, since I am going to Japan this ( Read more... )

So I was finally corrupted on to LiveJournal. I thought this day would never come ( Read more... )