i've been thinking a lot about my sophomore year of college lately, mostly because i've found myself, over the last eight months or so, deliciously backsliding into fandom, a pleasure i first really experienced at that time. i rapidly realized i'd been a fangirl all my life, but it was only at age twenty that i found a community and could give my ( Read more... )

i hate the dog days of summer. all of it. the sticky, the humid, the sweat-running-down-the-back-of-my-legs-ness of it; that feeling of never being truly dry or clean, the smudginess of summer. the bananas on our kitchen table ripen with a shocking alacrity, faster than we can eat them ( Read more... )

it's been a long time. a long time. but i think i may need this space again. or better yet, i want to reclaim it. i've been thinking a lot about time. about time and growing up, and friendship, and fandom, and the things that change us. i'm a completely different woman than i was when i last posted here, but i'm ready to put it out into the ( Read more... )

joanna newsom at BAM two fridays ago. the concert was in two halves: incredibly invention renditions of her older songs (an appalachian "writ" blew my mind) were preceded by an hour with the brooklyn philharmonic - mostly strings and horns - playing an orchestrated version of "ys"...sitting there with her web of strings (that huge instrument!) in ( Read more... )

so, i am now (unofficially until march) a master of arts in medieval studies. feels...i was going to say it feels no different but thats a lie, it feels really fucking good. i put in a lot of work, got good marks, won an award, and wrote a (hopefully!) fairly good dissertation on genealogy and descent as a literary trope in anglo-norman "historical ( Read more... )

in the damp, fountains abbey today. heavy stone on water, the footprint of cistercian simplicity in yorkshire and a monument to the solidity of the 12th century architectural mind. the trees on the surrounding hills were incredible. not particularly large or thick, but singularly human, looking like the thinned out bodies of elderly men and women, ( Read more... )

my dad, suggesting a dissertation topic ( Read more... )

the sun is level with your eyes by 2 pm these days, 6 o'clock dark at 3, midnight black by 5 which is, if nothing else, a little disconcerting, a little end-of-days ( Read more... )

on this historic day in which the mysteries of the interweb were bestowed upon constantine, most glorious of emperors.

fucking finally.

lacking internet at constantine house just yet. a few more weeks...

classes are entering the second week...medieval studies core course, early art history: "scrolls and serpents - the arts of the early insular world 600-900 ad", plus skills in palaeography, old norse, and latin. i miss doing lit this term, but everything seems to be informing ( Read more... )