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yesterday's quote: he was so, so... i don't want to say porn star, but...

today's highly unpleasant phrase: pain is weakness leaving the body.

how much greek do i have left to do: 2 sentences. meh.

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i love how the calendar in the hallway says "EXAMS EXAMS" over that whole week in giant capital letters that fill up the entire calendar block.

no, i don't. i'm lying. also, it's slightly chilly and my hair is still wet, and the corner of my eye itches. otoh, my stomach isn't as upset as you might expect it to be. i prefer, of course, to not even know my stomach is there. it's my ambition to have a quietly efficient stomach that digests food just as i ask of it and never gives me any trouble.

my last english paper was on charlotte bronte's villette, and i was connecting a change in tone through a series of scenes with the author's fundamentally different relationships with her two romantic interests. talk about True Love with light and playful fun tone and about Horrid Infatuation with oddly competitive and aggressive tone (and the teacher for some reason liked the word "competition" but couldn't handle the word "hostile"). okay, this makes perfect sense to me. obviously. and yes, i wrote it at 2 am, but so fucking what? it still makes sense. good tone for good things, bad tone for bad things. i'm a writer and clever. you can't fool me. i know how this works. so. why does she think those two halves of the argument don't fit together? (listen to me bitch. i still got an a-; it's just the comment that's bewildered me.)

i suspect i ought to rewrite that one, then, for my final. but the thing is that her suggestion was like, "i'm not sure, if you were going to talk about the narration, that you should have even mentioned the romance. i think it would have make more sense to go with how lucy is called upon to make a spectacle of herself..." *fumefume* so in other words, an entirely different paper. right. no.

one more spam and then i'm going to class, i swear. really!

"Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. Absence is just absence. Sorry to all those people in long distance relationships."
-Professor Sanderson, Psych 11: Intro to Psychology

spam. some day i will stop. i think.

stupid fucking boys, FLUSH the fucking URINAL!

( a smidge of japanese to brighten my day, with translation. )

post-class, pre-icecream babble

take the death quiz.and go to mewing.net. laura = great.

well, i guess it's better than liver failure or lung cancer. um, in other news, i like all of my professors.

( i'm filled with love for them. )

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school network keeps conking out. am v/ pissed.

and i'm here and where is my holls? she must have work. damn jobs. ahem. damn school maybe i'll take another nap.

and jennifer. where is jennifer. goddammit.

music

oh, my goodness, but this song is fabulous. i'm very impressed. sarah slean. sort of tori amos-ish. go download it now.

that's sarah slean in the picture, by the way. i'm experiencing pains of lust for that dress, too.

sorta-gip

i swallowed a mouthful of cold water too fast and it made my ears itch. wtf? ow. go AWAY, itchiness. bleh. it's also that kind of not-hot-or-cold temperature that i despise. apparently there are lists up in converse hall--i can find out who else will be living with me next year. also, i need to find out about storing my stuff this summer. and there are still those two papers to write. watch me bang head on things.

i just replaced my old uhura icon with this one. agonized over the caption for a long time and finally came up with that, but am not so sure i like it. background is one of the shots from hubble. i also made a hoshi icon which i was v/ glad to be able to give away to my best friend, because it was tempting me to actually USE it, which, no! hoshi! enterprise is EVIL. and yet, i keep using up the good captions ("you know i speak fluent idiot," "i won't translate that") on linguistics icons for other people. dammit.

star trek: tng and tos

i used to love star trek: the next generation when i was little. i've sort of moved on from it to tos, where there are, imo, more empty spaces left for character exploration and a much richer and more fertile ground in the kirk/spock relationship and the triad of the big three. as i say at my trek site, "the learned and the subtle, like the primitive and the popular, tend toward the center of imaginative experience." ( --northrop frye, anatomy of criticism.) which is to say that simplicity is often more evocative. frye mentions, as an example, the power of shakespeare's later plays like the tempest which draw more strongly on archetypes.

anyway, i didn't even discover the original trek and the wonder of k/s ;) until i was a senior in high school. i used to watch tng when i was a little kid. it's all tied up with childhood for me, and all of a sudden i miss it. does anyone else remember watching it all the time? i used to see it every night. i was heartbroken when it went out of syndication (and god bless tnt, even though i haven't started watching it again). now i want to make a deanna troi icon or three. i swear i have icon schizophrenia. how often can you change icons, anyway?

the west wing--

someone tell me what that was with charlie? and the dude?

[edit: oh, yeah, if i ever have to schedule a meeting with the new prime minister of russia, it will be in helsinki. no one, not even bartlett, evidently, can resist wax's siren song. my roommate probably thinks i'm nuts, as i kept randomly cracking up and saying, "finland!" all scandinavia is now irrepressibly funny to me.]