Happy Birthday Kate!

hope you had and continue to have a wonderful day.

Torchwood was so awesome!

I love scifi!

I have to write a paper, which really sucks, because I just started watching Doctor Who. All I really want to do is keep watching it. I finished the first season, and I really like it. It's not as good as Torchwood, but a lot of things overlap, and it really explains a lot. Jack, is so funny, I really like him...and I can't wait for the new ( Read more... )

I love critical theory, and I love Jackson Pollock. I've mentioned both of these things before, but I'm looking at both of these things in a completely new way now. This post modernism class is exactly what I needed to get me back on track after that last break down. It's really quite amazing. We're looking for the first time at how certain ( Read more... )

Grades are in, and I got an A-in Paradise Lost. (A- on the last paper, and I know I rocked one question on the final) It's amazing, and all the torture was worth it ( Read more... )

something that pulls you outside of yourself and into yourself at the same time. For me that often takes the form of a good book, or a painting that I connect with. It's just an amazing feeling, knowing that's there's more than yourself and that all of the potential is inside of yourself at the same time ( Read more... )

My knees are killing me, and I'm falling head first into a burnout. It's going to be a bad one...really bad.

In her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston explores the dual oppressions that women of color face. She Illustrates that as a woman, Janie is oppressed by the dominate male sex, and as an African American, Janie is oppressed by the color of her skin. With Janie's physical appearance, her mentally and physically violent relations ( Read more... )

so this morning I ordered Harry Potter in French. I figure it will help me over the summer. I also ordered a beginning reader with several stories and The Little Prince. My goal is to eventually be able to read Emile Zola in it's original French...that would be perfect.

It felt like there hadn't been 8 months since the last time; it felt right and natural. It was amazing, and good times. Now, I'm sore...at least my back and shoulders are, but it was worth it, it always is.