Bit of Ivory

Sorry I didn’t post on Saturday like I said I would; it ended up being a busy day. Of course, that means I now get to type the Update O’DOOM. the blind date that wasn’t. . . much of a date, that is Well, his name was Joel, and he might have been 25, but […]

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At about 11:00 today, the power went out in my office building. We waited around for an hour or so, until we got word that a substation had blown, and power wouldn’t be restored until 3:00. So I’ll have an even longer weekend than I was expecting, even with Memorial Day. Despite the lost work […]

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Got my letter from the English Composition department. I will not be teaching English 115 in the fall. GAH. They said that they just had too many qualified applicants. Yeah. Still makes me feel like I suck. And now I will have graduated with my masters degree with no teaching experience whatsoever, which is not […]

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The Snape and Sirius threads at SQ are driving me BATTY. It’s not that either of them are particulary bad today– no worse than usual, at least– but they’re both extremely popular at the moment. The Snape thread is the fastest moving thread at SQ, did you know that? Seems almost counter-intuitive, considering that SQ […]

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My worst fears about my graduate studies have been realized, seemingly. I was scared that my tiredness and lack of energy would have an effect on my ability to perform up to my full potential. When I took this internship, I was afraid that all my creative energy would be sapped in my work, leaving […]

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Missed school and work yesterday, and work today. I don’t know exactly what it is, a kind of coldy- flu-y thing. It started with a sore throat and a humongous headache and progressed to a stuffy nose, waves of nausea and a fever. So am hanging out at my parents’ house. It SUX, really, since […]

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That’s what this week has felt like. Just keep swimming, it’ll all be over eventually. What I really need is a nice vacation, but it ain’t happening. BYU, for some reason I will never fully fathom, does not have spring break. The only holidays we get in winter semester are for Martin Luther King day […]

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In one of my classes the prof decided that rather than have a semester paper we’d do 4 smaller “Oxford style” tutorial papers; thus my verse forms in LotR and Love and Marriage in LotR papers. They’ve been fun and relatively painless; no research is actually required, which I’m not used to doing these days. […]

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So, am writing a paper about the courtly love tradition and its influence (or lack thereof) on The Lord of the Rings. Have stolen my sister’s copy of The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (which is fascinating, must get my own copy) for such a project. Tolkien obviously looked down on the rituals of courtly love– […]

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I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy to have a long weekend. Siriusly, folks, it’s a good thing this semester only lasts until mid-April, because it’s an absolute beast. I thought I was tired before. Hah. Being able to sleep in on a Monday, even if it’s only one day, will be paradise. And […]

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