Last night's dreams were weird and terrible. Writing down what I remember before I forget even more ( Read more... )

If anyone was wondering where I was, or whether I had just fallen off of LJ again, three and a half weeks ago, now, I got the call that my grandmother was in the hospital and was going to be taken off of treatment as per her advanced medical directive (no treatment if she wouldn't be able to recover to a certain quality of life). The day after I ( Read more... )

So I'm finally done with my semester, my last paper's finally finished... I was really happy about it for a while, but my works cited is really... meagre. And when I was reading through it before turning it in today I couldn't help wondering whether it made any sense. But it made sense while I was putting it together, and I probably need a break ( Read more... )

I found some ridiculously cheap pasta bowls at Kroger, say, four for ten dollars, so I dutifully bought four of them. This was... months ago, at this point. Anyhow. I bought the bowls because all the bowls I had at that point were soup bowls, and soup bowls are actually mildly unfortunate to try to eat pasta out of (though hardly as unfortunate ( Read more... )

For the first time since I've been at UVA I actually considered asking a prof for an extension on a paper. And then last night we got an e-mail offering an extension to the entire class until the weekend. Which is cause for much rejoicing in the land of Dessa. I was just inspired to write this paper (as opposed to some other crappier paper ideas ( Read more... )

I've been pondering on the great unanswerables recently, and I think I've changed my mind as to one of them. Was Julius Caesar a Roman Emperor ( Read more... )

That's about all I have to say about the latest BSG.

TCE

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In an effort to find the tasties I've started buying bread from the supermarket bakery instead of the bread aisle. A few failed attempts at finding nummy rolls later, I finally got up the nerve to buy a loaf of bread, all sorts of unsliced and unprepared to do anything but sit on my dining table and go stale for lack of me knowing what to do with ( Read more... )

Tuesday June 24th, the new Great Big Sea album, 'Fortunes Favor,' is out in the US. I know I'll be in line for one, just based on the stuff they noted as 'on their forthcoming album' during the concert last spring.

TCE