The quick sum up with a yadda, yadda, yadda here & there: was a mathematics major this semester until last week about; have switched back to the English lit. because I decided I didn't want a career in math (not that a math B.S. would require that, of course, but you know..)  I'm taking my math and physics courses in stride now that they'll be ( Read more... )

Was just watching him interview an author, David Gilbert, about happiness, and Gilbert said that those who don't have children are generally happier than those who do - the audience really cheered at this one - but the real Colbert himself came out and got defensive; he said something along that lines that the sublime feeling that comes with ( Read more... )

Towery city and branchy between towers;

Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded;

The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did

Once encounter in, here coped and poised powers;

Thou hast a base and brickish skirt there, sours

Best in; graceless growth, thou hast confounded

Rural rural keeping - ( Read more... )

Definitely.

Classes were cancelled and the rest. So we sledded down our hill, drank much tea, and had an otherwise wasteful, irresponsible and jolly old day.


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I had my first day of classes today: there're only seven other people in my Intro to Literary Studies class which is very good; Environmental Science will be a lot of fun because the prof. is a character, very intense; The American Experience will be great because Prof. Farrall is basically exactly what a professor should be ( Read more... )

Environmental Science on Monday, Wednesday and Friday with a professor I've heard is good if difficult.

Math for Liberal Arts Majors on Tuesday and Thursday . . .

The American Experience (Cultural Foundations req'd course) on Monday and Wednesday with Molly's Sociology professor who is good if difficult.

Introduction to Literary Studies on Monday, ( Read more... )

The subject of this post is the title of a book I bought three days ago. It's an interesting idea for a book, for sure (why I bought it). The author has these nice little digressions into things Irish; for instance, he (Richard Wall) takes a few pages to defend the dramatist Sean O'Casey simply because Wittgenstein once commented to his friend ( ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Molly and I woke for the 8:15 mass at the Cathedral, and luckily it turned out to be the one the Cathedral school attended, i.e., the kids participated with lectoring and singing and so forth; it was ultra cute and Molly's now convicted she ought to open a Catholic orphanage ( Read more... )

I'm going to try and visit an Orthodox parish, St. Elias on 11th & Trinity, for Vespers on Saturday; see what it's like and so forth, to complement my reading. I've been really considering 'moving East' actually and finally. I imagine it'd be different if I were already confirmed; I'm not, so I have the leeway to honestly look at the pertinent ( Read more... )

Someone said it somewhere, that it's a bloody shame that the one thing fundie Islam seems to've inherited from the West is the Culture of Offense.