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my undergradute thesis is on mytho-poltical english identity in the medieval and victorian periods - in the prior as represented in two middle english romances and in the latter as seen in medievalist scholarly reactions to these texts - and i just now, in reading this little bit of eliot, have come to the not-so-staggering realization that what i ( Read more... )

after taking an almost two month break...winter will be making its return with a vengeance this weekend.
- weather.com's east coast storm alert

i definitely conceptualize this as being spoken in the moviefone voice. for winter-vengeance VI, please press 2 or 0 to return to the main menu.

we've had an unexpected and sudden snow tonight, just a light white dusting. looking outside my window, i feel that its telling me the time is ripe to make an unplanned and long-belated fresh start.

its nice to be back in this bed by this window.

totally different from last year, huh? ah well, never really wholly good nor wholly bad. oh but im moving up in the i-dress-like-a-librarian dept: now i have a black cashmere cardigan. from bloomingdale's. classy. i know.

oh, and thanks to a surprise phone call from the illustrious miss kass, a game - click and spot the typo: bleak house on pbs! ( Read more... )

since it seems my latent ADD is in full-swing and i cant get anything ( Read more... )

the new year strolls in and three and a quarter hours later, my foot is ( Read more... )

its kind of sad not having ( Read more... )

this is the week of relaxing. have been baking like a good little woman: gingerbread men, italian almond-pinenut, chocolate cookie peppermint bark, ginger chewies, and chocolate-black pepper over at rachels house. mmm. have seen her off to the land of the scots and am now contemplating the rest of my week.

tonight is dinner and a movie with nato, ( Read more... )

home. homehomehome. until january 14th.

have grad school shit and all kinds of other stressful things to do but still. HOME. no more stupid stupid STUPID paper on lacan, no more 100-line old english translations that take 3 hours to complete, no more having to walk 10 minutes through the cold to stand in line for the salad bar.

things i have now ( Read more... )