Heh. I'm highly amused that out of everyone on my flist who's posted something exclamatory about gifts received, almost all of the posts, including mine, have been about kitchen appliances or bakeware. I guess you can tell that much of my flist is only a couple years out of college. :D
It's Christmas Eve. How time flies. After losing it last year, I think this year I found my Christmas spirit, or at least something closely related. Thank you to all of you for your cards, your well-wishes, and your joy. *hugs everyone*
My parents and I just opened presents, and in addition to S4 of Northern Exposure (the last season I needed to complete my collection, since I refuse to admit to the existence of the last season), some lovely jewelery and shirts (I found the one empire-waisted shirt in the world that looks flattering on me!), I received the four-quart saucepan I coveted, and, as a surprise, a wooden cutting board! I've been using these floppy plastic affairs and complaining about them off and on all semester, so my mom got me a real one. It all made me very happy. Oh, I am officially Old now. (Old enough to cook giant soups and lots and lots of noodles! Huzzah!)
Speaking of Christmas, you should all visit the iTunes store and pick up the free single of the week--it's Stephen Colbert singing a Christmas song of his own devising. Very funny. :)
My parents and I just opened presents, and in addition to S4 of Northern Exposure (the last season I needed to complete my collection, since I refuse to admit to the existence of the last season), some lovely jewelery and shirts (I found the one empire-waisted shirt in the world that looks flattering on me!), I received the four-quart saucepan I coveted, and, as a surprise, a wooden cutting board! I've been using these floppy plastic affairs and complaining about them off and on all semester, so my mom got me a real one. It all made me very happy. Oh, I am officially Old now. (Old enough to cook giant soups and lots and lots of noodles! Huzzah!)
Speaking of Christmas, you should all visit the iTunes store and pick up the free single of the week--it's Stephen Colbert singing a Christmas song of his own devising. Very funny. :)
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Dec. 11th, 2008 06:23 pmSo it rained the entire way from Knoxville to Nashville (that's about 180 miles), but luckily I was home before it turned to sleet and then snow. The ground and even roads are covered right now.
What is this madness? It never snows this early in December down here. It almost never snows in December, period. Hmmm. The Farmer's Almanac did mention that it would be a cold and snowy winter this year. Gah. So over snow...
(I haz doggehs! Doggehs whom I don't think remembered me too well! Poor memory-deficient pups.)
P.S. Thanks to everyone who commented on the last entry. :)
What is this madness? It never snows this early in December down here. It almost never snows in December, period. Hmmm. The Farmer's Almanac did mention that it would be a cold and snowy winter this year. Gah. So over snow...
(I haz doggehs! Doggehs whom I don't think remembered me too well! Poor memory-deficient pups.)
P.S. Thanks to everyone who commented on the last entry. :)
It's pouring down rain outside, and I am listening to Patty Griffin's "Rain."
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wintercreek is rewatching Northern Exposure and I'm commenting with glee to every post she makes.
Tonight's study group has convinced me that I am as prepared as I can possibly be for my AmLit exam tomorrow.
And after that exam, I'm done with my first semester of grad school. Amen.
wintercreek is rewatching Northern Exposure and I'm commenting with glee to every post she makes.Tonight's study group has convinced me that I am as prepared as I can possibly be for my AmLit exam tomorrow.
And after that exam, I'm done with my first semester of grad school. Amen.
Dude. This is Tennessee. Is it even allowed to snow this hard down here?
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FYI: While I don't know what pomegranates have to do with the holidays (unless we're going Greek and refering to Persephone, Demeter, and the changing of the seasons), the makers of 7-Up decided to make a holiday version of said soft drink with said flavor, and lured me in with their wily marketing schemes. (In other words, I was getting groceries this morning, and it was on the shelf, and I said, "Oooh, that sounds tasty!") Anyway, it's really quite bad, and I recommend against it.
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Ways to know you've been spending too much time in front of the computer watching TV and on the futon reading for class: your butt starts hurting. Rather badly. Although possibly this is related to the annual, "Oh, it's fall, and the weather's changing! I must remind you of that time six years ago when you slipped on some ice and broke/cracked/bruised/made me hurt for six months straight!" thing my tailbone does. Slightly different place, though. Although it seems to have expanded today to include basically the waist through the thigh...
Enough about my butt.
Re: the TV: I...am going to guess that "Two Bodies in the Lab" spawned 1.2 million fanfics. Just a guess, mind you. Awww. (But, for the record, just the kind of thing I do not need in the hour before I go to bed is to be shocked with an exploding refrigerator. Just sayin'.)
Zack is almost human! He's much less creepy now. I think he started using vocal inflection or something. And they finally used a song that didn't suck in the desert episode. Yay Patty Griffin for saving us from bad rock songs.
My medium-length paper this semester got canceled (HURRAH!), so I feel slightly less guilty about watching, um, 17 episodes in less than a week. Soon I'll get to the end of S1, and have to rely on Netflix for the rest until I get to S4, so the madness has an ending in sight.
(I kind of want to go searching for a Bones icon, but I don't want to spoil myself more than I already am. (I, er, may have been trying to find out via Wikipedia if they film on location, and in doing so found out certain things about Zach, Angela, and Hodgins. And I perhaps have a vague idea about something concerning Brennan's parents. But if there's anything ELSE left to surprise me, I'm going to try and make it until I see it on the show.) Perhaps I'll just make one in all that copious free time I have right now...)
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Ways to know you've been spending too much time in front of the computer watching TV and on the futon reading for class: your butt starts hurting. Rather badly. Although possibly this is related to the annual, "Oh, it's fall, and the weather's changing! I must remind you of that time six years ago when you slipped on some ice and broke/cracked/bruised/made me hurt for six months straight!" thing my tailbone does. Slightly different place, though. Although it seems to have expanded today to include basically the waist through the thigh...
Enough about my butt.
Re: the TV: I...am going to guess that "Two Bodies in the Lab" spawned 1.2 million fanfics. Just a guess, mind you. Awww. (But, for the record, just the kind of thing I do not need in the hour before I go to bed is to be shocked with an exploding refrigerator. Just sayin'.)
Zack is almost human! He's much less creepy now. I think he started using vocal inflection or something. And they finally used a song that didn't suck in the desert episode. Yay Patty Griffin for saving us from bad rock songs.
My medium-length paper this semester got canceled (HURRAH!), so I feel slightly less guilty about watching, um, 17 episodes in less than a week. Soon I'll get to the end of S1, and have to rely on Netflix for the rest until I get to S4, so the madness has an ending in sight.
(I kind of want to go searching for a Bones icon, but I don't want to spoil myself more than I already am. (I, er, may have been trying to find out via Wikipedia if they film on location, and in doing so found out certain things about Zach, Angela, and Hodgins. And I perhaps have a vague idea about something concerning Brennan's parents. But if there's anything ELSE left to surprise me, I'm going to try and make it until I see it on the show.) Perhaps I'll just make one in all that copious free time I have right now...)
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May I just say, scraping ice off my car windows is not something I expect to have to do in OCTOBER in TENNESSEE. Gah.
(And I'm so, so slow at it, too. In the parking lot this morning, it was like, scrape scrape scrape scrape *person who got out there before me gets in car and leaves* scrape scrape scrape *person who came out at the same time as me leaves* scrape scrape *people who got there after me leave* scrape scrape scrape scrape scrape "Finally! I can go!" *get in car, realize windows are now fogged over*
*turn up the defroster and pout*)
(And I'm so, so slow at it, too. In the parking lot this morning, it was like, scrape scrape scrape scrape *person who got out there before me gets in car and leaves* scrape scrape scrape *person who came out at the same time as me leaves* scrape scrape *people who got there after me leave* scrape scrape scrape scrape scrape "Finally! I can go!" *get in car, realize windows are now fogged over*
*turn up the defroster and pout*)
I stayed on campus later than usual today to hear a talk by an American history professor for one of my classes, and so wound up driving home around 6:30 this evening, just as the sun was setting. On my drive home, I can see the smoke stack for the UT hospital's power plant rising up on a bluff by the river; tonight, it was backlit by the incredibly orange glow of the sunset, and it and the billowing smoke it spewed looked positively evil. It was seriously cool. :D
(On my drive to campus in the mornings I was able--until early this month, when the sun started rising after I leave my apartment--to see a particularly attractive church spire silhouetted against the pale sunrise. The drive both ways also takes me by an especially winsome section of the Tennessee River, now lined by flame-colored maples and other trees of various hues. I have a nice commute. And at seven minutes, it's not overly tedious. I think I spend more time parking and walking to the English building than I do driving.)
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Apparently the entire eastern half of the US is having a cold snap...? Sure seems that way. It only hit 50 or so here today, I think. It's cold enough that one boiler has been on all day, and two of them were on for a good chunk of it. It got broiling hot in my apartment, actually, until I turned off all but one of the radiators, and turned that one just one 3/4th turn of the knob. (Oh, how I wish for a thermostat. Setting degrees would be so convenient.) It was cold before, when the temperature was hovering just above what would set the first boiler off. I can't win.
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Still on Frankenstein. Hopefully will finish it tonight, but I have to meet with my Renaissance professor tomorrow to chat about my paper, so I also have to prepare for that. (Because of that and another meeting, plus regular classes and such, I have to be on campus from 7:30 AM to 9:20 PM tomorrow unless the Nexus meeting runs short enough that I can run home for dinner before class. It's gonna suck.) I last read it the summer before ninth grade, so I was fourteen or so, and I'd forgotten how engrossing it is. I actually gasped aloud when Victor Frankenstein saw the lightning illuminate the shadowy figure of his monster across the mountain. Creepy! I might have to use it for my 102 class--although I get the impression most people read it in high school, so perhaps that would be too repetitive. I'll have to think about it.
(On my drive to campus in the mornings I was able--until early this month, when the sun started rising after I leave my apartment--to see a particularly attractive church spire silhouetted against the pale sunrise. The drive both ways also takes me by an especially winsome section of the Tennessee River, now lined by flame-colored maples and other trees of various hues. I have a nice commute. And at seven minutes, it's not overly tedious. I think I spend more time parking and walking to the English building than I do driving.)
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Apparently the entire eastern half of the US is having a cold snap...? Sure seems that way. It only hit 50 or so here today, I think. It's cold enough that one boiler has been on all day, and two of them were on for a good chunk of it. It got broiling hot in my apartment, actually, until I turned off all but one of the radiators, and turned that one just one 3/4th turn of the knob. (Oh, how I wish for a thermostat. Setting degrees would be so convenient.) It was cold before, when the temperature was hovering just above what would set the first boiler off. I can't win.
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Still on Frankenstein. Hopefully will finish it tonight, but I have to meet with my Renaissance professor tomorrow to chat about my paper, so I also have to prepare for that. (Because of that and another meeting, plus regular classes and such, I have to be on campus from 7:30 AM to 9:20 PM tomorrow unless the Nexus meeting runs short enough that I can run home for dinner before class. It's gonna suck.) I last read it the summer before ninth grade, so I was fourteen or so, and I'd forgotten how engrossing it is. I actually gasped aloud when Victor Frankenstein saw the lightning illuminate the shadowy figure of his monster across the mountain. Creepy! I might have to use it for my 102 class--although I get the impression most people read it in high school, so perhaps that would be too repetitive. I'll have to think about it.
The Lost Weekend
Oct. 26th, 2008 12:05 pmI suppose this weekend is payback for my Thursday Of Doing Nothing this week. Bah. I spent about ten hours reading and preparing for a presentation yesterday, and it looks to be much the same with the reading today. I keep a To Do list on a whiteboard that hangs on my refrigerator, and it's saaaad today. Very full of marker. But at least of the nine things on it, four are crossed off, and a fifth ("do laundry") will be in a few minutes. But yes, Frankenstein (due next Monday) and The Last of the Mohicans (due Nov. 12th, but 400 freakin' pages) snuck right up on me. Gah.
I just realized this week that we have two days of classes after Thanksgiving (why?), and because that Monday is December 1st, my 20 to 25-page paper due on the 5th is...going to have to be done before Thanksgiving. Kee-rap. At least I'm using one of my Exeter papers as the basis for this one--just changing, oh, 3/4ths of it and then adding ten or fifteen pages. Um, at least I have half my thesis already?
(We aren't even talking about the papers I have due in my two other classes, and the two final exams for them. My British Romantics class as a whole is plotting to talk our professor out of either the paper or the exam, because the paper was a last-minute addition she wasn't sure about adding anyway. I don't care which at this point--the paper would be interesting to write, but exams require less time--I just want something off my plate.)
I was also idly thinking about my 102 class next year--we get to choose the entire theme and all the content of the course, it's great--and I'm pretty sure I've decided on "Inquiry into Science Fiction" as a theme. (I was leaning towards "Inquiry into Ireland" [yes, they have to be "Inquiry into..."] and possibly fantasy before.) The Martian Chronicles will probably feature havily, and I think I might use the Margaret Cavendish piece I was talking about back in September--excerpts, maybe, though. I'll need a couple of novels, and maybe a movie or two (or episodes of TV...oooh! BSG!), and perhaps some more short stories. I think the focus will be space travel, but perhaps we could drag in the X-Files too--perhaps an abductee episode...
(BTW, I discovered last week that the library has back issues for not none, not one, but three scholarly journals on SF. I officially love having access to a Div. I research library. :D)
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In addition to being Lost, this weekend is also one of Animal Life Where It Isn't Supposed To Be. To start with, there was a FREAKING HUGE ROACH in my hallway last night. Not as huge as the tree roach that got in back in August, but roughly an inch long, and horrifyingly fast. Cue me flailing with the flyswatter (I eventually got it, although I had to follow it into one of my closets to do so) and then flinging boric acid everywhere. Well, around the doors, anyway. And possibly in all the closets, around the radiators, under all the windows...
And this morning, when I was going to get groceries, a DEER wandered onto I-40. Thankfully it didn't come anywhere near me, and no one hit while I could see it (it eventually got up against the inside barrier, heading west), but I hate to think what might happen to the poor thing. I didn't see any evidence of a deer carcass on the way back home, so I choose to think it made it back to the grass on the side.
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No relevance to any of the above: Fish ladder Wikipedia article. I did not know such things existed. There are fish elevators too! I had figured salmon and such were just out of luck when a river was dammed...
I just realized this week that we have two days of classes after Thanksgiving (why?), and because that Monday is December 1st, my 20 to 25-page paper due on the 5th is...going to have to be done before Thanksgiving. Kee-rap. At least I'm using one of my Exeter papers as the basis for this one--just changing, oh, 3/4ths of it and then adding ten or fifteen pages. Um, at least I have half my thesis already?
(We aren't even talking about the papers I have due in my two other classes, and the two final exams for them. My British Romantics class as a whole is plotting to talk our professor out of either the paper or the exam, because the paper was a last-minute addition she wasn't sure about adding anyway. I don't care which at this point--the paper would be interesting to write, but exams require less time--I just want something off my plate.)
I was also idly thinking about my 102 class next year--we get to choose the entire theme and all the content of the course, it's great--and I'm pretty sure I've decided on "Inquiry into Science Fiction" as a theme. (I was leaning towards "Inquiry into Ireland" [yes, they have to be "Inquiry into..."] and possibly fantasy before.) The Martian Chronicles will probably feature havily, and I think I might use the Margaret Cavendish piece I was talking about back in September--excerpts, maybe, though. I'll need a couple of novels, and maybe a movie or two (or episodes of TV...oooh! BSG!), and perhaps some more short stories. I think the focus will be space travel, but perhaps we could drag in the X-Files too--perhaps an abductee episode...
(BTW, I discovered last week that the library has back issues for not none, not one, but three scholarly journals on SF. I officially love having access to a Div. I research library. :D)
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In addition to being Lost, this weekend is also one of Animal Life Where It Isn't Supposed To Be. To start with, there was a FREAKING HUGE ROACH in my hallway last night. Not as huge as the tree roach that got in back in August, but roughly an inch long, and horrifyingly fast. Cue me flailing with the flyswatter (I eventually got it, although I had to follow it into one of my closets to do so) and then flinging boric acid everywhere. Well, around the doors, anyway. And possibly in all the closets, around the radiators, under all the windows...
And this morning, when I was going to get groceries, a DEER wandered onto I-40. Thankfully it didn't come anywhere near me, and no one hit while I could see it (it eventually got up against the inside barrier, heading west), but I hate to think what might happen to the poor thing. I didn't see any evidence of a deer carcass on the way back home, so I choose to think it made it back to the grass on the side.
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No relevance to any of the above: Fish ladder Wikipedia article. I did not know such things existed. There are fish elevators too! I had figured salmon and such were just out of luck when a river was dammed...
Pretty pretty
Oct. 6th, 2008 02:34 pmIt is a beautiful afternoon, and I'm stuck inside writing a paper.* Grar. At least I can have all my windows open and feel the breeze. (The breeze which is currently making the acorns on the centuries-old oak tree outside the window closest to my desk fall like raindrops. Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap. It's not quite the point of being distracting, but it might get there soon. Let me just say I'm glad the branches don't extend over my roof, or I'd be going crazy.)
There was an adorable freshman who came to the writing center this morning with a paper where he'd cited pretty much every sentence he wrote, even things like, "The book was published in 1903." Way to be hyperaware of plagiarism! I must find his teacher and get him or her to explain how s/he put the fear of God in the class about citations.
* This will undoubtedly be a repeated theme over the next six and a half years. Ah, grad school.
There was an adorable freshman who came to the writing center this morning with a paper where he'd cited pretty much every sentence he wrote, even things like, "The book was published in 1903." Way to be hyperaware of plagiarism! I must find his teacher and get him or her to explain how s/he put the fear of God in the class about citations.
* This will undoubtedly be a repeated theme over the next six and a half years. Ah, grad school.
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Oct. 1st, 2008 01:16 pmGah! First Avenue Q, now Yo-Yo Ma. Why does Nashville suddenly bring all the awesome things to town the moment I leave? I swear, it's a conspiracy.
I should take myself off the TPAC mailing list I got one when I bought ballet tickets. It only makes me angry.
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Season 2 of Pushing Daisies premieres tonight! I will be making time to watch it tomorrow. Please don't spoil me in the meantime, kthx. (For me this is...probably the worst possible week, time-wise, for it to premiere. I usually have my reading for my Friday class done by now, and I haven't even started yet. Thank you, reports and papers of doom that have been taking up my time. I was so far ahead! Now I'm just barely keeping up! Waaaah! Then again, I guess if I hadn't gotten ahead earlier, I would be behind now, so there's some comfort in that. Doesn't bode well for December, though...)
I should take myself off the TPAC mailing list I got one when I bought ballet tickets. It only makes me angry.
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Season 2 of Pushing Daisies premieres tonight! I will be making time to watch it tomorrow. Please don't spoil me in the meantime, kthx. (For me this is...probably the worst possible week, time-wise, for it to premiere. I usually have my reading for my Friday class done by now, and I haven't even started yet. Thank you, reports and papers of doom that have been taking up my time. I was so far ahead! Now I'm just barely keeping up! Waaaah! Then again, I guess if I hadn't gotten ahead earlier, I would be behind now, so there's some comfort in that. Doesn't bode well for December, though...)
I survived the Tennessee/Florida game...
Sep. 21st, 2008 11:12 am...by getting the heck out of town. ;) My parents came up this weekend and we made a day trip to the mountains. Yay mountains! My website is myseriously back up, despite no communication whatsoever from my hosting company, so I will post pictures soon. As soon as I finish my reading for this weekend, anyway.
Speaking of which, I'll just be off to do that...
Speaking of which, I'll just be off to do that...
Miscellany
Sep. 17th, 2008 08:25 pmDear Self,
Really, it's time to start putting the backpack in the backseat or the trunk. The passenger unbuckled bell is getting annoying. (Tonight it was four tomes of criticism about Coleridge and Volume 33 of Studies in Romanticism. All except the periodical are mine until JANUARY SEVENTH MUAHAHAHA. Or, y'know, until someone recalls them. Er. Anyway, YAY GRAD SCHOOL.)
Speaking of those books, I'm pretty excited about this presentation/paper. I'm going to write about Coleridge's "The Nightingale," which very few people have even mentioned, much less written articles about. I think it could make a decent conference paper (which is the assignment--doesn't have to be submitted anywhere, but it should be ready to be). And I won't feel like I'm repeating people, yay!
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Over the past week, four unfinished Corner Gas fics seem to have appeared on my hard drive. I, of course, am at a loss to explain this. All four of them also seem to involve Karen and Davis in some kind of awkward USTful situation as well. Really, I have no idea how that happened. *whistles*
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The weather has been awesome for the past few days. Thanks, Ike! ;) I've had all my windows open, and I have a lot of windows. It's wonderful. I went for a walk by the river and took pictures the other day. I'd post them, except my webhosting company has, apparently deleted my website. When I still had eight months left for this year. And they aren't responding to e-mails.
Good thing I keep a backup on my computer.
Yeah, I won't be hosting with them anymore! (It's HostOnce, for the curious. They were fine for five years, but no longer, apparently.) I think I'll take this opportunity to pick a different domain name--one that's less "I was eighteen and feeling uncreative" than my old one.
Really, it's time to start putting the backpack in the backseat or the trunk. The passenger unbuckled bell is getting annoying. (Tonight it was four tomes of criticism about Coleridge and Volume 33 of Studies in Romanticism. All except the periodical are mine until JANUARY SEVENTH MUAHAHAHA. Or, y'know, until someone recalls them. Er. Anyway, YAY GRAD SCHOOL.)
Speaking of those books, I'm pretty excited about this presentation/paper. I'm going to write about Coleridge's "The Nightingale," which very few people have even mentioned, much less written articles about. I think it could make a decent conference paper (which is the assignment--doesn't have to be submitted anywhere, but it should be ready to be). And I won't feel like I'm repeating people, yay!
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Over the past week, four unfinished Corner Gas fics seem to have appeared on my hard drive. I, of course, am at a loss to explain this. All four of them also seem to involve Karen and Davis in some kind of awkward USTful situation as well. Really, I have no idea how that happened. *whistles*
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The weather has been awesome for the past few days. Thanks, Ike! ;) I've had all my windows open, and I have a lot of windows. It's wonderful. I went for a walk by the river and took pictures the other day. I'd post them, except my webhosting company has, apparently deleted my website. When I still had eight months left for this year. And they aren't responding to e-mails.
Good thing I keep a backup on my computer.
Yeah, I won't be hosting with them anymore! (It's HostOnce, for the curious. They were fine for five years, but no longer, apparently.) I think I'll take this opportunity to pick a different domain name--one that's less "I was eighteen and feeling uncreative" than my old one.
Tea and dinner
Sep. 9th, 2008 05:51 pmI have a weekly writing center-related meeting I have to go to. It's held in a little independently-owned coffee shop on campus. Today, since I found a nearby parking spot (...it probably shouldn't have made me as happy as it did to find a spot in the second-most convenient of four potential lots, should it?), I had some extra time before it started, and I decided to get tea. First of all, they have a Yunnan blend. I haven't had Chinese black tea in forever--not since Klein's class senior year, I don't think. I was extremely happy. Second, they served it to me not just as a bag in a mug, but in a tiny personal teapot. My classmates and I were all very impressed.*
I also made awesome fettucine alfredo tonight. It had chicken, ham, and mushrooms. Mmmmm.
* This may say something about English grad students. I'll not speculate on what.
I also made awesome fettucine alfredo tonight. It had chicken, ham, and mushrooms. Mmmmm.
* This may say something about English grad students. I'll not speculate on what.
Food, Glorious Food
Sep. 5th, 2008 11:08 pmI have mostly assuaged my Pushing Daisies-inspired yen for pie by picking up the following candle at CVS today: click here.
Yes, it is an apple pie-shaped and scented candle. Hee.
In other food-related news, I bought a bunch of some of the best grapes ever yesterday. Mmmmm, grapes. Mmmm, food. (Thursday has become my grocery shopping day. I am luxuriating in food, food food! Well, not that I didn't have a well-stocked pantry and freezer*, so perhaps I should say "food you don't have to cook," or even more accurately "snack food," but you know what I mean.)
Re: the current media hubbub: All I can say is that I hope, somehow, this inspires a Northern Exposure reunion show. *g*
* Especially freezer, which is currently about to overflow. I'm pretty sure I can't fit one more thing in there. Cooking for one makes lots of leftovers, and I think it'll be awhile until I can face the last of those quesadillas I made almost a month ago.
Yes, it is an apple pie-shaped and scented candle. Hee.
In other food-related news, I bought a bunch of some of the best grapes ever yesterday. Mmmmm, grapes. Mmmm, food. (Thursday has become my grocery shopping day. I am luxuriating in food, food food! Well, not that I didn't have a well-stocked pantry and freezer*, so perhaps I should say "food you don't have to cook," or even more accurately "snack food," but you know what I mean.)
Re: the current media hubbub: All I can say is that I hope, somehow, this inspires a Northern Exposure reunion show. *g*
* Especially freezer, which is currently about to overflow. I'm pretty sure I can't fit one more thing in there. Cooking for one makes lots of leftovers, and I think it'll be awhile until I can face the last of those quesadillas I made almost a month ago.
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Aug. 28th, 2008 04:16 pmThe Road to Hell, Or at Least to Spending Nine Dollars on Used Books (Two of Which Are at Least Going to Be Useful for Comps)
Step 1: Go to entirely different store that's in a strip mall-style shopping center.
Step 2: Coming out of said store, spy used bookstore you haven't seen before.
Step 3: Decide to "just look"; walk over to store.
Step 4: See a kitty in the window.
Step 5: Say, "Ooooh, kitty!" out loud. Don't feel as embarrassed as this should make you feel.
Step 6: Go into store, pet both kitties (one of which is a really pretty blue-eyed Himalayan/Ragdoll), get in conversation with owner, and end up buying three books, which at least were relatively cheap.
It's not rent or utilities or groceries that are going to break me in this town, oh, no. It's BOOKS.
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Also, in the HOLY CRAP THAT'S AWESOME category, I just discovered that Nutella spread on a pizzelle is about the closest we're going to get to a crepe over here, and it's AMAZING.
Step 1: Go to entirely different store that's in a strip mall-style shopping center.
Step 2: Coming out of said store, spy used bookstore you haven't seen before.
Step 3: Decide to "just look"; walk over to store.
Step 4: See a kitty in the window.
Step 5: Say, "Ooooh, kitty!" out loud. Don't feel as embarrassed as this should make you feel.
Step 6: Go into store, pet both kitties (one of which is a really pretty blue-eyed Himalayan/Ragdoll), get in conversation with owner, and end up buying three books, which at least were relatively cheap.
It's not rent or utilities or groceries that are going to break me in this town, oh, no. It's BOOKS.
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Also, in the HOLY CRAP THAT'S AWESOME category, I just discovered that Nutella spread on a pizzelle is about the closest we're going to get to a crepe over here, and it's AMAZING.
Heh. I'm probably annoying my neighbors by chortling merrily at the second Adrian Mole book. I just finished it, and have now realized there are four more waiting for my consumption! Must investigate at the library.
Speaking of libraries, I have a carrel! Alas, it is just a desk and shelf, rather than a locked room, and I'm sharing it with someone else from my program, but at least when the books for papers get to be overwhelming, I can check some of them out to the carrel and leave them there rather than humping them back to my apartment.
Speaking of dragging things back to my apartment, I got the Writing Center hours I wanted, which means that I don't have to be on campus at all on Tues/Thurs. HOORAY. Of course, I still have to get up at 6:30 on MWF for the 8 AM 101 class, so I won't really be able to sleep in on TR and stay sane, but I'm a big fan of only having to be there three days a week. Lots of uninterrupted time for errands and studying and cleaning. (I have turned into SUCH a clean freak, y'all. It's mostly due to my fear and loathing of roaches, yes,* but still. I think being entirely responsible for my living space has galvanized me into making sure it looks nice. I bought a vase and some pretty fake flowers today to go on my table. I AM TOTALLY MARTHA STEWART NOW.)
Speakin of nothing else, did you know Kenyon has an iTunes U site? With ancient records from the archives on it? ...Dammit, now I have "The Thrill" stuck in my head. But ah, memories.
* No dish stays unwashed for longer than an hour. The trash goes out every night without fail. I bleached my entire bathroom and much of the kitchen last week, and will probably get a supply of boric acid just in case. I had my father caulk up every tiny hole anywhere, and put out a ton of those Combat roach bait/poison thingies. NO BUGS HERE.
Speaking of libraries, I have a carrel! Alas, it is just a desk and shelf, rather than a locked room, and I'm sharing it with someone else from my program, but at least when the books for papers get to be overwhelming, I can check some of them out to the carrel and leave them there rather than humping them back to my apartment.
Speaking of dragging things back to my apartment, I got the Writing Center hours I wanted, which means that I don't have to be on campus at all on Tues/Thurs. HOORAY. Of course, I still have to get up at 6:30 on MWF for the 8 AM 101 class, so I won't really be able to sleep in on TR and stay sane, but I'm a big fan of only having to be there three days a week. Lots of uninterrupted time for errands and studying and cleaning. (I have turned into SUCH a clean freak, y'all. It's mostly due to my fear and loathing of roaches, yes,* but still. I think being entirely responsible for my living space has galvanized me into making sure it looks nice. I bought a vase and some pretty fake flowers today to go on my table. I AM TOTALLY MARTHA STEWART NOW.)
Speakin of nothing else, did you know Kenyon has an iTunes U site? With ancient records from the archives on it? ...Dammit, now I have "The Thrill" stuck in my head. But ah, memories.
* No dish stays unwashed for longer than an hour. The trash goes out every night without fail. I bleached my entire bathroom and much of the kitchen last week, and will probably get a supply of boric acid just in case. I had my father caulk up every tiny hole anywhere, and put out a ton of those Combat roach bait/poison thingies. NO BUGS HERE.
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Aug. 9th, 2008 07:21 pmExciting times in Knoxville, folks. Mostly involving novels and Spanish review books and cleaning fluids. Although I made a trip down to the branch library today and got all library carded up, yay. I like that the library is only a five-minute walk from my apartment, and that the circ desk lady is awfully nice. As are the patrons, as far as I could tell (one introduced herself to me and chatted about grad school).
Also, I played with my latest acquisition: ( Picture under cut )
Hmmm. Now, dinner, I think, and then back to OD'ing on X-Files fanfic and ghosty novels.
Also, I played with my latest acquisition: ( Picture under cut )
Hmmm. Now, dinner, I think, and then back to OD'ing on X-Files fanfic and ghosty novels.
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Jun. 12th, 2008 04:44 pmDUDE. The run of tragedy and bad news to people on my flist needs to stop, now. This is NOT ON. *hugs flist*
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Alas, tomorrow I will not be posting about BSG, because I will be out of town. Expect comments on Sunday night. Have a good weekend, y'all.
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Alas, tomorrow I will not be posting about BSG, because I will be out of town. Expect comments on Sunday night. Have a good weekend, y'all.
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