Posted in undergrad on Apr 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
The point lies in you, not in time. –Porfiry Petrovich, Crime & Punishment
You can’t take a picture of this. It’s already gone. –Nate Fisher, Six Feet Under
Sometime between Friday night & Saturday morning, I dreamt I was a ghost. In the wonderful logic of dreams, I don’t know how I died [...]
Posted in undergrad on Apr 18th, 2009 2 Comments »
So, here I am, perched on one of the final weeks of semester, wired on black coffee & pre-graduation anxiety. I have final projects ahead of me & a difficult week of work behind me.
But, before I throw myself into activity, I think about the tons of books on my bookshelves. They’re not [...]
Posted in undergrad on Apr 10th, 2009 No Comments »
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Brew a huge pot of coffee. It’s gonna be one of those weekends, people! Sleep when you’re dead!
Finish The Brothers Karamazov. Cry. Wander dazed around the house with a teddy bear under one arm. Ponder why I decided to torture myself this semester.
Get started on research paper for Religion class.
Remember that before I [...]
Posted in undergrad on Apr 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
One of my weaknesses (or strengths?) as a reader is that I get too emotionally invested in characters. I fall in love with them, argue with them (mentally, of course), anticipate their futures and worry about them long after I’m finished with the book.
I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a [...]
Posted in undergrad on Mar 27th, 2009 2 Comments »
A brief blog post since I will again be spending the weekend cloistered with a Dostoyevsky novel. I took some time today to Skype with a friend of mine who’s going to grad school overseas. She had just gotten back from a trip to Berlin & told me all of her excellent adventures.
“I’m [...]
Posted in undergrad on Mar 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Before any explanations, I have some acknowledgments. First, none of these postcards would exist if it hadn’t been for the cool assignment given by Professor Colin Rafferty. Second, presentation is everything. I have to thank Justin Toney for helping me work the kinks out of the Litebox plugin.
March 1: When I first [...]
Posted in undergrad on Mar 20th, 2009 No Comments »
I’m struggling this week to think of some theme to blog on. Maybe the work load is finally catching up to me & my thoughts are only on what I have to do. On the other hand, I have a lot of ideas for writing, just, unfortunately, not about classes or notes. [...]
Posted in undergrad on Mar 13th, 2009 1 Comment »
I ran into one of my former professors yesterday. While we waited for the elevator, he told me that it was one of the most tiring times of the semester. Not only was he trying to grade numerous midterms (constructively & with thoughtful comments), he had also realized that there were only six [...]
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I am a terribly nostalgic person; I get sentimental over everything non-digital. I write my blog posts by hand before I type them in. I favor my 35mm camera infinitely more than my digital one. I read the newspaper. The Kindle horrifies me. Make no mistake, I can function in our [...]
Posted in undergrad on Feb 19th, 2009 No Comments »
Wanted to get this week’s post out of the way. Next week is midterms & I’m pretty pressed for time. I’m always anxious this time of the semester; honestly, who isn’t? It seems every time I sit down to write a paper, I start replaying my previous disasters.
One experience I relive without fail happened during [...]
Posted in undergrad on Feb 13th, 2009 No Comments »
“A ballad in print is a ballad already dying. . .” –The Ballad Tree, Evelyn Kendrick Wells
If I were to sum up my week for you in a sentence, you would think it had been rough. “Well, first I read Crime and Punishment for class and then I recited some murder ballads.” Despite all this [...]
Posted in undergrad on Feb 6th, 2009 1 Comment »
I think that being mentally knocked on your ass can be a good thing. In theory. It causes you to question your complacency, makes you more aware of the assumptions you take for granted. Of course, the actual experience is disorienting & miserable.
One of these moments happened in yesterday’s religion class. For this seminar, we’re [...]
Posted in undergrad on Jan 29th, 2009 1 Comment »
“Snow,” Mick said. “That’s what I want to see. Cold, white drifts of snow like in pictures. Blizzards. White cold snow that keeps falling soft and falls on and on and on through all the winter. Snow like in Alaska.” –The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Another compressed week. Classes were snowed out after [...]
Posted in undergrad on Jan 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
The end of a somewhat calm week. The inauguration seemed to be reason enough for some of my classes to be canceled & I spent some time in the library, catching up with Gogol & his intriguing protagonist Chichikov. I really enjoyed Dead Souls, the first book on my Russian Novel reading list.
Reading the novel [...]
Posted in undergrad on Jan 15th, 2009 1 Comment »
Earlier today at work, I glanced out the window & saw a flock of birds sitting in a leafless tree. It was not a very safe place to perch; the limbs bent with the force of the wind. But the flock stayed put, calmly clutching the branches they were perched on despite the irritation. Can [...]
Posted in undergrad on Jan 8th, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve resisted blogging for a long time. There are two main reasons: first, I don’t think I have anything significant to say. Second, my disgruntled muse tells me that if I have time to blog, then I have time to write & work on existing projects. Well, neither of those two reasons [...]