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just posting a picture

"My Weekend"

I have recently embarked on a 47-day vacation filled with sunshine, lemurs and absolutely no skilling! On Monday, my friend and I made pizza on preposterous bread and watched the movie Dream Flip Flops with Mr. Darcy . . . err, I mean Colin Firth. Tuesday, we played cowboy-hat ball and took a walk to get some frozen "rosebud" at Golden Spoon. The next day, I went to the great state of Boston, where Caitlin and I googled to the beach and read speculation about whether or not Huck Finn was a horcrux. Finally, today my family and I celebrated my sisters' πth birthday with cake and ice cream and shamrocks. All in all, it's been a mad-libbed-out few days!

words, please

I have written a Mad Lib summing up my first few days of vacation. Before I publish it, I need volunteers to give me the following kinds of words:

number
plural noun
gerund
adjective
plural noun
celebrity
noun
noun
city
verb, past tense
literary character
ordinal number
plural noun
adjective

If I get more than one response, I reserve the right to choose the answers I like best. :)

Orlando Bloom on Extras

It's almost time for the next installment of Pirates, so I felt like it would be an ideal time to post this video. "See the attractiveness!"

A.B.D.!

After writing the last post, I spent several weeks burrowed in a bedroom fortified by piles and piles of 18th-century books and books on the 18th century, both my own and the library's. My first exam was a written exam covering my primary list ("eighteenth-century literature"), during which I was able to use whatever books or notes I wanted. I don't want to bore you with many more details of that exam, but I do want to share a picture I took of the luggage I brought with me that day to carry my books and notes:
















The Trader Joe's bag just held snacks, but the rest were full of books and a few binders. Fortunately, my friend drove me to the exam. :)

Anyway, two exams (one more written one and one oral one) later, I was A.B.D.! Now, presumably, I can resume normal blogging. For example, I could, if this was a normal blog entry, write about how today I saw a man on a unicycle riding down a set of stairs. Awesome.

the joys of rereading

I had forgotten that the action in The Castle of Otranto begins with a giant helmet falling from the sky and crushing Manfred's son. That's one scenario that I don't think the Final Destination people have tried yet.

mystery solved!

Spin Art. It's an "American Tradition" (the website says so).

news for a Wednesday morning

This morning, my exam dates finally got confirmed! Woot.

I know this announcement is belated, but my cousin had a beautiful baby girl last week.

And finally . . . I just overheard my roommate's boyfriend's mom describe my couch as "butt ugly." (Specifically, "the butt-ugliest.") That is remarkably accurate.

I would try to describe the couch to you, but I can't remember the term for the 80's t-shirt art process in which one would place dabs of puffy paint on a t-shirt in a kind of vague design and then spin the shirt around very fast in a special t-shirt spinning machine. (Anyone?...) Because my couch looks like it has been through that kind of process, and then put through another, very special secondary process involving years of wear and dust and food stains. I've never really seen a couch like it.

Then again, I purchased it from another grad student for only $20, and it's super comfy, so I don't care.