...and an odd feeling of calmness sweeps over me. Mitigated by anger. Which I guess is good - I reported the feeling to a friend of mine who's already taken comps and she said that as soon as you start feeling indignant in the vein of "how dare anyone test me on this" you're ready to take comps. I don't know that it's that, exactly - I'm feeling ( Read more... )

Perhaps my subject line says it all, except to say what this special feeling is all about: my comprehensive exams begin next Wednesday, continue on Friday and then end the following Monday. It's a three-day test, four hours a day. I know my questions but can't go in with notes or outlines, and I'm expected to produce 15-20 typed pages per day. I ( Read more... )

So while I slept through it this time and my downstairs neighbor chased him off before anything could happen, someone tried to break into the side door of the house I live in last night (which is a door away from my own door), and once again I'm thinking about what it means to feel unsafe in places I live in ( Read more... )

Fall seems to be poem-time in SleepweaselLand. Another journal just came out - this one a PDF online - that has two of my poems in it: the first one about a certain nasty yet somehow still somewhat admirable old poet teacher of mine, the second about sentimentality. Anyway, it's cool to have stuff that's coming out ( Read more... )

I'm on Verse Daily today! Craziness!

http://www.versedaily.org/2007/songideas.shtml

I didn't even know I was, until one of my friends emailed to congratulate me!

OK, I think I need opinions. October is my month for buying shoes for potential job interviews, and there are several key issues at stake ( Read more... )

On the heels of Samaphore's post suggesting a general craze-ed-ness brought on by a variety of specific things, I'd like to decry the following things ( Read more... )

Ugh. I just started reading a new critical book this morning, and I'm currently on page 75. It has over 400 pages. I'm working with a 200 page per day goal here, so hopefully I'll be done with it tomorrow and hopefully my internet connection will continue to insist on only working in one obscure corner of the house so as to discourage me from ( Read more... )

Umm...sometimes reruns of SNL are totally worth it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LAZgcC3jgo

So I'm back in Columbia, sans car. That's the bad news. The good news is that the brake line that broke did so in my parents' driveway and not on the highway somewhere. It was a bummer to return to Missouri without a car, but I still had a good time watching my friend Ben run a marathon with my friend Tee. What we like to do is wait until we ( Read more... )