alright. update. after much deliberation, soul-searching, and more than one email to former tutors with the subject line "help!" - i officially accepted a place in the medieval studies ma program at the university of york in the uk. the centre for medieval studies is widely acknowledged as the best in the uk, if not the world and the english ( Read more... )

with partial credit to prof. steve finley
driving toward the lac qui parle river
                robert bly

I
I am driving; it is dusk; Minnesota.
The stubble field catches the last growth of sun.
The soybeans are breathing on all sides.
Old men are sitting before their houses on car seats
In the small towns. I am happy,
The moon rising above the turkey ( Read more... )

there was a world...or was it all a dream
[iliad book III]

as i sit here, embarking upon the second to last paper of my undergraduate career, i can hear that little voice in my head saying marie, this is not the time to teach yourself derrida...

bug/spider bite count on my right upper thigh/hip: 21.
bug/spider bite count on my right rib-type area: 3
bug/spider bite count miscellaneous: 5

its either in my room or in the grass outside carpenter library but whatevers biting me better not be poisonous because i already look like i should be being dumped at the er at princeton plainsboro right ( Read more... )

that being, posting in public ( Read more... )

because you can never really have enough, more from little gidding from the four quartets

...You are not here to verify,
Instruct yourself, or inform curiousity
Or carry report. You are here to kneel
Where prayer has been valid.

dinner tonight was soul food bar with amy, which means cornbread with melted butter and honey. afterwards i walk back to brecon in the misting air, thinking sweet, im going to watch the second half of that house episode i started this morning. doesn't matter than i've seen it twice before because yum, sexy angry doctor with a big stick. as im ( Read more... )

this i cannot understand. after four years of college, a hundred papers of eloquent persuasion, my entire self-worth based on an ability to wrangle words, when it comes to lifting them from the paper to my throat, i find it actively impossible to even begin to make myself understood ( Read more... )

jen: you suck, because i'm writing a paper too.

itunes stupidity:

songs: 1591 - just did a purge of shit i never listen to...

song title first: "its not a side effect of the cocaine, i am thinking it must be love" - fall out boy (quotes in title)
song title last: your magic is working - of montreal

longest: eskimo - damien rice (15:57) although i have ( Read more... )