Bit of Ivory

You buy yet another edition of a set of books you already own several editons of.
Yes, my friends, I just ordered the Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen.
My reasons are very good, though. First, it includes some works which I don’t have yet– her Juvenalia, Sanditon, and The Watsons. Second, whenever you write scholarly criticism on Austen [...]

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So, we decided at the last minute to go see this movie tonight. By the time we got to the theater, the only available seats were on the front row.
This was not a bad thing. Not a bad thing at all. Oh, how I loved those Orlando closeups. And there were lots of them. Lots.
*coughs*
Anyway. [...]

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So. Who all’s going to Lumos?
The registration price will go up after Halloween, so I’m trying to get things coordinated. I’m totally there, but I’d like to figure out rooming arrangements before I make any hotel reservations.
Jen and I also want to take in the Utah Shakespearean Festival right before. Cedar City is about 2 [...]

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Went with my sisters and their friend to see Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit tonight.
Dude. So. Funny.
I haven’t laughed that hard in the theatre since we saw Finding Nemo in Orlando and I was almost on the floor at the whale-speak part. I’m still giggling over a few parts. I want to [...]

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Well, almost. I asked Dr. Mason to sign it tonight, and he said he’d look over it and pass it on to the other two signatures I still need– and that I didn’t have to worry about losing my funding, ’cause they’ll consider it in. I may have to make a few small proofreading-type changes, [...]

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I officially have one signature out of six on my prospectus, and have made the necessary changes he recommended. The second is promised, I just need to get it tomorrow. I still have to pitch the idea to the prof I want to be my second reader–he’s got office hours tomorrow, so I can ambush [...]

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Dude. Good movie.
Umm. Wanna go see it again. And maybe I’ll understand Mal better the next time around. Took me awhile to figure out what in the heck he was saying.
And. . . DVDs are in my future. Yeah.

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When did it turn into fall? This is bad. Not that I don’t like fall– I do. I just have too much I was supposed to do this summer. Now I’m scrambling at the last minute.
I know, I know. What else is new?
I’d like it better, though, if it was a nice fall. Sweater-weather, you [...]

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