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Posted by Arpy , Jul 20 2012 · 53 views

Happy birthday BZP! Maybe it's just force of habit, but I'd like to think there's something else about this site that's kept pulling me back all these years. I'll let you know if I figure out what that is.

And on a considerably more serious note, my heart goes out to the victims and families involved in the CO theater shooting. It saddens me to think that we live in a world where senseless, horrible things like this can happen.

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Life In The Fast Lane

Posted by Arpy , May 06 2012 · 23 views

surely make you lose your mind

Oh wow you guys, I have had an incredibly eventful week+end. Excellent way to close out the semester, if I do say so.

I've been on this massive energy high ever since staying up till 3 a.m. to finish what amounts to a Brontë/Thursday Next fanfic for a class's final, which was then followed by staying up till 3 the next night as a result of seeing The Avengers, which was fantastic and perfect and my favorite superhero movie yet, then I tore through my etymology final with much gusto, polished my final draft of that Marxist AD paper, and snuck up to the roof of a campus building with actual turrets and parapets and whatnot.

Then just yesterday, I had a lunch date with a lovely and classy person, took a highly restful nap, started a thrilling book on language by Steven Pinker (yes, I like linguistics; don't judge), went to a lake and swam across the entire thing because I could, later discovered the lake was closed for some reason (if I die of e. coli or something, I have no one but myself to blame), knew the delight of squishing about in endless mud, took "ironic" non-hipster photos with fences and nature paths and such, engaged in gladiatorial Nerf combat, discussed some stimulating topics of discourse with fellow seekers, and went on one last early-morning donut run, which I am now feeling the effects of in the form of a sugar-induced headache etc.

Now it's just an Old English final and a few more days between myself and the end of the semester, which means I will also be moving into the house I hope to occupy until the end of the year and graduation. Crikey!

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We're An Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune!

Posted by Arpy , Apr 30 2012 · 27 views

Hello, fine people! It's been a while since I've rambled to this little corner of the internet, eh? This semester has been...interesting, to say the least. Here are some of the parts of it that have actually been quite pleasant and informative. I:

Got to go home for spring break, which was especially nice given that we determined that I’m staying at college over the summer except of course for my trip to Puerto Rico.
Met with some librarians over said break and got some great pointers and advice.
Also tore through several novels, including The Marriage Plot and Slaughterhouse-Five. Lots of thoughts and emotional resonance involved.
Wrote a fairly ludicrous essay in which “Tell Me How I’m Supposed to Breathe with No Eyre” formed part of the title.
Realized that free license to write a paper on anything I want is intoxicating. Hello, Marxist reading of Arrested Development!
Received an anthology of Poetry for Cats and shortly gratified that thing for parodies which I have always had. “She Walks in Booties” and “Meowl” were some notables.
Continued geeking out about Old English in a variety of ways, including bandying about tropes from our translation of Apollonius of Tyre and accidentally spelling modern English words with their older equivalents.
Started having dreams in Spanish, albeit still with some L2 learner mistakes (which some part of me recognized as mistakes and berated my subconscious for making).
Found out that ALA Midwinter will be practically next door to where I hope to be in January. Oh yes.
Somehow placed second in my first-ever eating contest, and never you mind that there were only four people in it.

Presented on factors in linguistic variation to a full room of faculty and students and whatnot. It went smashingly and you missed it. I totally should have been a ling major. :c