I received an email from my thesis committee member (otherwise known as TCM, for my purposes) who addressed it to "Palindromic Viv." I am meeting him at Rao's on Thursday to talk about my project. As ever, I continue to have a schoolgirl style crush on him. Superb! I am excited though, because this will give me my second set of feedback so I can go ( Read more... )

Camilla -- Are you out there? I went to respond to the comment with a question you sent me over the weekend, and your journal is deleted and you are gone off Facebook! If you are out there, please let me know ( Read more... )

I could sing you a tune
And promise you the moon
But if that's what it takes to hold you
I'd just as soon let you go!A thing I did today: experienced being inside of a car getting eaten alive by a stealth sink hole of mud and/or quicksand. Western Massachusetts is clearly trying to pick a fight with me ( Read more... )

BEGIN PSA: Guerrilla Poetry 2k7 approaches! Do your part! Your patriotic duty! Your amoral contribution! Receive fame, love, and pudding! Perhaps even a firm handshake ( Read more... )

I am awesome. I have a job interview with the NYU French Department on Friday. Can we say "hell yes"? Or perhaps, "putain, ouai!" It is, however, at 10 in the morning. Which means rising ass-crack early to get a train from Fairfield that will get me there in time. To that I say simply, "oh putain ( Read more... )

True story: cervical dysplasia is a bitch ( Read more... )

This whole thing with not working Fridays anymore was a stroke of genius on my part.

Not like I enjoy having to go to the doctor on a regular basis. No indeed. But I do like sleeping in on Friday.

I have a paper due Tuesday. Much like Mary Rowlandson, I do not care about Benjamin Franklin. However, I got an A on the Rowlandson paper, so I suppose ( Read more... )

I have found my newest nerdy pursuit! -- The poetry of Sappho. I am comparing translations of her poems and piecing them together into a version that I like best, and which I feel best represents the spirit/etc. Also, reflections and reactions to Longinus' On Sublimity, which is a pain in the ass to read, but well worth getting through. Very ( Read more... )

I apparently have a problem with double-posting. It's like a disease. But I am so excited I want to scream like a little girl--I got comments on the first draft of my novella back from my thesis chair (who is the editor of The Massachusetts Review, a well-known lit mag, and highly sought after to chair MFA committees--he is a respected pro) and I ( Read more... )

I think there is some chemical in the air that makes it impossible to work on papers before eleven at night, no matter how determined one is.

Also, if you enjoy enjoyment, you should read The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, because it's awesome ( Read more... )