fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo:

[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “’…the dichotomy presented by this visceral juxtaposition…’” Bottom text: “EVERY PAPER, A+”]

Every paper in my Brit. Lit. class.

He was explaining “The habitual ‘be’”, in case you were wondering. Because she’s not just trippin’ once, but is found to be trippin’ on a regular basis. Were it just a once-in-a-while thing, one might say “[She] trippin’.” Actually, learning the grammar rules, and watching my white/nerdy middle-aged professor explain them without sounding like a huge racist, was pretty rad.

Contemporary Linguistics: Expected D, got a B.

Major British Writers II: Expected C, got an A.

Let’s see if we can continue this trend today with Cultural Anthropology.

1.) I’m using my cell phone as a wi-fi hotspot in my Contemporary Linguistics classroom. This is the first time I’ve had Internet in here all semester. It’s really handy!

2.) I was really worried that I had failed the mid-term for Contemporary Linguistics. I, uh, actually got a B. I’ll take it.

3.) I’m going to research the syntactic processes behind predictive text (this falls under computational linguistics) for my research project in this class.

meaghano:

comingandcrying:

Your copy of Coming & Crying will be hardcover, 168 pages, containing 24 stories by 24 people, sent directly from a box in Melissa’s apartment and carried in a series of bins by Meaghan and Melissa to the general post office in Manhattan, where a woman named Estelle Lee will release it — that’s the word — to you. It will come in a white envelope.

$28 ($24 + $4 shipping/handling/Estelle, which will ship in 2-3 weeks)

hey look! you can click that button!

I just requested this for the library at Webster University! I hope it works out.

Classes start again today for me. I only have one class today, and that’s Major British Writers II with Caitlin.

I’m just saying that my schedule could be worse.

In a bid to make the most of that interest, George is launching, in September, what seems to be the world’s first master’s degree in vampire literature. “In the months I’ve been planning the conference I’ve fielded a huge number of inquiries from people all over the world who are interested in studying vampires, zombies and the undead at a higher level,” she says. “I had the idea of offering the master’s as a direct follow-up from the conference. I thought it was crucial to have a way of extending this burst of awareness.” The best papers from the conference will be collected in a book, which will become a textbook for the MA students.

George expects the course to become an annual staple that will outlast the current TV craze for all things vamp, because “vampires themselves change so much, and reflect contemporary society”. She says today’s vampires are glamorous and sexy, and have an emotional side.

(via The Guardian)

Oh boy.

Finished my paper for Contemporary Drama at like 6:30 a.m. on Thursday. Slept until 10:30, went to class and took my Contemporary Drama mid-term.

Got home at 3:30 p.m., ate a meal at 4:00, slept from roughly 5:30 to 8:30.

Woke up, spent a little sanity time. Now I’m working on a paper for Film Appreciation.

I’m shooting for 8 hours of sleep tonight. Wish me luck!

EDIT: 2:31 a.m. on Friday. Paper complete! 8+ hours of sleep, here I come.

4:10am at Old Town Donut Shop

Mid-terms. Am I doing it right?

Did you ever wonder what the beginning of Beowulf sounds like in Old English?

Well, you don’t have to wonder anymore, because I had to record myself reading it for my Historical Linguistics class. I, uh, think I’m pronouncing things right.

I’m watching Little Women and taking notes on the director commentary so I can write this 800-word paper about said commentary for my Film Appreciation class.

It’s not like this is a difficult assignment, or really that it’s that time-consuming. Basically, I should stop procrastinating. But we all know that I won’t.

That said, if I were in Warrensburg right now, I’d probably be taking a sanity break and someone would be enjoying brownies with me. So here I am in St. Louis. A different kind of sane, but probably more productive.

EDIT: The 4:13am update.

I finished the movie. 900 Words later, it’s time to sleep. I think I can still get seven hours if I fall asleep now.

(via a-eliz)

Historical Lingustics. Woo!

On Mondays and Wednesdays, I have a four-hour break between classes. All I want to do is fall asleep in the library, but I feel pretty awkward sleeping in public. The third and fourth floors are less populated, but I don’t get a wi-fi signal up there, so I would have to pack up my things and change floors when I want to study/sleep.

Summary: I’m so tired.

pedrosanchez:

can’t handle myself. marlon brando’s wardrobe in on the waterfront, and the way he carries himself in that movie, and how he interacts with eva marie saint….nope, can’t handle it. i mean, if some guy came up to me the way he came up to her, and talked the way he did, i’d be sold, enough is enough! i’m yours.

I watched this movie in Film Appreciation on Friday!