Is it really a week since I blogged last? It doesn't seem like it was that long ago. Wait. It wasn't--I know for absolute certian that I blogged on Tuesday. And today is Saturday. I don't know how that works, if it works, but I can't cudgel my poor brain into pondering it.Icarus (pictured here … Continue reading Total Denial Reigns
Category: Life in Purgatory
Happy Earth Day
My university surprised me: usually every day with a cause results in an onslaught of supporters and opposition on the campus, with everybody shouting, waving signs, and thrusting clipboards at you. There was none of that today--not even a bleak documentary scheduled to show on the big mall after sunset. I was rawther surprised, but … Continue reading Happy Earth Day
Bad Blogger
Quanto lo siento. I think I've just broken about every rule known to blogdom. I subjected you to unsolicited griping, I got off topic, and then I disappeared. (In case you were perplexed by the picture, Skalbagge is a stuffed pillbug, one of my growing collection of Ikea creatures. Its mouth unzips to hold pajamas … Continue reading Bad Blogger
We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Programme
Spring break has been over for about a week now. Over with a vengeance. In between my History of English project, the Wari (cool people--not enough research on them), and the Tiwanaku (interesting if I didn't have to cram an entire book on them), I have rediscovered Quant.There is more to this little project than … Continue reading We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Programme
Final Sale
Every semester, right around midterms, when I'm feeling least charitable towards institutions of higher learning and yearning most for a break, registration for the next semster opens. I hate that. Each time, it feels like you're selling your soul--in advance.So this Friday, registration opened once again, and I sold my soul away...for the last time. … Continue reading Final Sale
I Witness the Fall of Modern Civilization
I spend most of my afternoons in the university library, doing homework to kill time before my evening class. Most days I can get a coffee in before I head over there, but today my schedule was all mussed about, and I arrived at the library before I had gotten through the foam atop my … Continue reading I Witness the Fall of Modern Civilization
Leap Year
A History of English assignment is looming over my shoulder, but I have to get a post in tonight; this is leap year manifest.I used to love little trivia-type things like today. I suppose I still do, but as a full-time student part-time deskperson, it's just not the same.Forgive the melancholy, but I had my … Continue reading Leap Year
Little Things
The minute, the curtailed, the packable seem to be taking over my life.Lunch fits in a box.My working memory is about the same capacity as a floppy.And any knitting larger than a washcloth seems an insurmountable task of Hurculean proportions.Why? Because it's back-to-school time. Not the rejuvenated-by-summer, won't-this-be-fun, brand-new-clothes fall back to school. The back-to-the-grind, … Continue reading Little Things
Rome is Burning
If one is trying to highlight the Roman emporer Nero's insanity, the anecdote about him playing his fiddle while Rome burned is a good one. There are lots of others, but this is the one I remember. It came to mind today in particular. If ancient historians had not left ample evidence that Nero was … Continue reading Rome is Burning
Hazards of Combining Knitting and School
Size 0 double pointed needles aside, knitting is considered a relatively benign hobby. Yet to be explored, however, are the hazards of Knitting In Public, KIPping for short. In my experience, KIPping is a perilous enterprise at the best of times. KIPping at a University? Doubly so.Hazard #1Students. The ones who stare are easily ignore. … Continue reading Hazards of Combining Knitting and School
