Category: Life in Purgatory
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Total Denial Reigns
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Anti-Quotidian 