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In protest to "The Seeker"
So this travesty of a movie opens today. And apparently they've cut out a vital character and are making one of the Signs Will's soul (oh, look, even more wannabe HP elements). So to vent my disappointment, I'm posting some quotes from the BOOKS. Some are narration and short phrases, because Susan Cooper has some of the most beautiful prose I've ( Read more... ) -
Petrarch is getting to me
I think this is the earliest in the year I've ever started applying school to...everything. I've been reading Petrarch's poems for Continental Lit, and apart from the obvious Dante comparisons (Laura's actually in heaven, beckoning him upwards! Come on, Beatrice did that ages ago. Find something new.), I've found something else of interest. To ( Read more... ) -
I want to go back to school!
Yes, I'm aware that I'm a freak. But I miss Hums, despite the fact that the reading list for the fourth-year core seminar is frigteningly high on Nietzsche and Hegel. I'm terrible at doing nothing, and I think I've reached my limit. I'm in the "worrying about stupid things" phase, and I really need to get some structure. While I've been ( Read more... ) -
I'm back!
I'm home! Back in the Great White North (although it thankfully wasn't white when I arrived; if it had been snowing in mid-July I would have gone back to England and the rain). Hello everyone! After saying goodbye to the people in Exeter, I met my mum in London and we started our whirlwind tour of Britain. It was the same sort of tour as the ( Read more... ) -
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Just a quick note from the hotel lobby... I'm okay. I'm in Plymouth right now, and we weren't anywhere near any of the attempted (or successful) terrorist attacks. I can't write long, and I probably won't update again (internet is touch and go here...took me ages to figure this out, even), but I just thought I'd let you all know where I am just ( Read more... ) -
Ahh! The Hums rant returns!
(Sorry for all this, but it helps me think. And I need all the help I can get.)
Okay, I'm officially confused. Of course Hums decides to rework the program the year I'm away, just to further complicate things. Steph, did they explain this to you? Or Leah, do you have a clue what's going on?
What I think I have to take, based on Prof. Laird's ( Read more... ) -
The end is near!
And no, this is not an apocalyptic warning. It's a ramble concerning school, so you are hereby warned. It means that my final essay of the year is in its last stages. And that means that I am compulsively reading it over and changing the order of things, reading it again, and then changing it back. This essay worries me, because I'm relying ( Read more... ) -
Study break...complete with swans!
First public post in a long time. I wonder what that means, other than indicating that I'm too lazy to switch it to Friends Only.
My final essay of the year is coming together at last! The hardest part was of course deciding what to write about, but I have a thesis and everything now. So I've been doing that for the past couple of days. ( Read more... ) -
Home, sweet home (you didn't even notice, did you? *Grin*)
I'm back from the land of the "Kamikaze motor scooters," otherwise known as Italy. I also went to Paris, but there I didn't have a tour guide giving it a funny name. It was fabulous and if people ask me about it I'll probably talk their ears off, so be warned. A frantic list of places visited, some only for a short time, is Paris-Rome-Sorrento- ( Read more... )