I wonder if anyone still reads this, hehe ( Read more... )

Finals week is going swimmingly. I turned in a bear of a paper on Friday (a study of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis using New Historicist theory). My Calculus final was a breeze...I know I missed the problem on Linear Approximation, but to be honest, I don't see the point of knowing how to get an approximation, no matter how accurate, of the square ( Read more... )

Amy and I just got back from Indiana. She went with me to visit family for Thanksgiving...it was a great, great time. It was her first Thanksgiving apart from her family, so I was quite honored that she wanted to spend it with mine. We saw a bit of snow, ate a lot of food, and played with a horde of youngsters. It was a grand experience ( Read more... )

This week, someone in my high school graduating class passed away. 32 years old, massive heart attack. He had an enlarged heart. I'm from a small farm town. Most of the people in my class I've known since kindergarten or before; Carter was no exception. I was never close with him, but I have a couple of fond memories of him ( Read more... )

Taking a break from writing a mid-term paper. Good times ( Read more... )

Yes, I enjoy acting and feeling young. Being silly, as it were. Amusing myself, if no one else. Laughing when someone says "You do do that, don't you?" I mean, come on. Do do. It's stinkin' hilarious ( Read more... )

I'm really learning to despise Formalism (or New Criticism, if you prefer). At its heart, I believe it seeks to transform artistic literary works into scientific formulae. It bugs me, it really, truly does, and not simply because I find writing a 6-page paper on a single sonnet rather ludicrous.

Approaches to Studying Literature. Fiction Writing. First Books: Poetry. Calculus with Analytical Geometry. Latin I ( Read more... )

- UNCW has a gorgeous campus ( Read more... )

I've known for a little while that Amy had an early-birthday surprise for me this weekend, and it involved going out-of-town. I was excited, but I'm not the sort who needs to know details of a surprise before I get it. Where's the fun in that? (I grew out of that phase pretty quick, I believe. I only unwrapped-the-retaped Christmas presents once, ( Read more... )