May 2012
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The Game is On
To celebrate handing in my final essays (yay!), I just sat down in “Room of Requirement” (fourth floor lounge in the library) and watched the first episode of Sherlock.
Uh oh … If you have been paying attention to previous posts, you’ll understand why for me, this could lead down a bad road indeed. Then again, I suppose now that it’s summer I’m due for...
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April 2012
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november came early.: "Thirteen Ways of Looking at... →
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Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
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I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.
III
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.
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A man and a woman
Are…
This poem caused so much strife in my seventh grade Language Arts class. We debated and argued about...
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Who Said Finals Can't Be Fun?
When study (“dead”) days and finals period hit, I thought the fun for my semester would be over. I knew it would be final papers from then on out until the end of the academic year. But then I had a Rice Players retreat which was so much fun packed into less than 24 hours and even though I have returned to Rice and have had some of the hardest papers to write, I have still found beauty and...
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The Internet Doesn't Have to Be Emo →
I liked this positive view on how Twitter and other social media platforms can actually boost the self-confidence of their users, sometimes. I’ve heard people calling Facebook or Twitter places to be “emo,” to vent emotion in a public space in order to get sympathy from everyone else out there in your network. It’s usually cryptic or cited through depressing song lyrics,...
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Alice in Oxford
lewis-carroll:
This photograph is so precious (yet so small).
Carroll and Alice Liddell taking a stroll, probably in Oxford.
I wish he was wearing his top hat. Alice’s garments are so cute.
I saw a lot of Alice and Wonderland in Oxford because I walked past Christchurch and Alice’s Shop every day. I love seeing a picture of them actually walking down a street in Oxford. It reminds...
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“… for every mile the feet go
the heart goes nine.”
– E. E. Cummings (via aslovelyasatree)
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Nothing Left to Do
Hopefully. This is what I am trying to tell my brain: You have nothing left to do but finish finals and your junior year. Just two more papers. Finish the one you’ve started tonight, write the last full paper tomorrow, and then spend the beginning of next week editing all three final papers.
My apartment is now empty. My parents drove in this morning to clean out my room. And then my...
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What Books Were Supposed to Look Like →
According to people in the past, this is what the future of books was supposed to look like. The funny part: some of it is true …
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Dear people who question why girls go to the...
english-geek:
middle-east-beast:
Hermione went alone and got attacked by a troll
So there was no-one to run and get help.
Always go to the bathroom in pairs.
This is the best answer I think I have ever heard to this question.
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It's Charlotte Bronte's Birthday!!!!
I really should not be taking a break from my Modern Drama papers to post this, but it’s only the first day of dead days. So I’m fine, right?
The Bronte sisters have factored importantly in my life this year. The new Jane Eyre film came out last May. And as cited in earlier posts, my first essay for my first tutorial at Oxford was a comparison between Jane Eyreand Anne’s...
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Celebrating the Last Day of Classes
I celebrated the last day of classes this morning by watching the beginning of Breakfast at Tiffany’s before I came to school. It helped me get motivated to drag myself to my 9 am one last time.
This is another one of those movies I want to quote all the time. It’s one of my all-time favorites.
But, besides that I’m not doing much particularly special this last day of...
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Letter from Philip K Dick to the producer of... →
This letter makes me really excited to watch Blade Runner in my Origins of the Postmodern class on Thursday. If the author loved it …
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“Imperfection of beauty, madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely...”
– Marilyn Monroe
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J.K. Rowling Penning a Harry Potter Encyclopedia →
And now my renewed obsession is once again more socially acceptable! More importantly, it will be rewarded with a new book from the Harry Potter universe!!!!!
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“The illusion of free will is itself an illusion.”
– Sam Harris from Free Will, page 64.
What? How am I going to use this in my American Literature paper?
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Jerry Brito: Top ten myths about introverts →
jerrybrito:
Myth #1 – Introverts don’t like to talk. This is not true. Introverts just don’t talk unless they have something to say. They hate small talk. Get an introvert talking about something they are interested in, and they won’t shut up for days.
Myth #2 – Introverts are shy. Shyness has nothing to…
I love this article. I’ve been thinking a lot about the challenges of being...
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Owl Days Nostalgia
I’m sitting in the Sewall courtyard right now answering emails and writing a little. But I’m thinking I’ll have to move soon.
Why? Because today is Owl Days, the start of a two day period where prospective students (a.k.a. “prospies”) invade our campus to get a taste of what it is like to be a student. All the student groups host fun events at night. Right now...
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“Bill reminded himself to read the pavement signs before he crossed the street....”
– Don DeLillo, Mao II, page 120.
And he’s talking about London. SO true.
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“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
I am sorry to say I have not read Eugenides or Middlesex yet, but a friend sent me this quote in response to a recent facebook post:
Computer science project: should have brought more Easter candy to school to power through this.
I didn’t mean for it to read as...
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"The End is Beer"
Last semester I spent a lot of time trying to capture Oxford traditions, but now I want to report on some important Rice traditions that took over my life two weeks ago.
The pinnacle of the social year at Rice starts with Willy Week. Each college votes upon a theme for this week and elects three or four people to serve as coordinators to plan a bunch of social activities every night and day...
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“Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself.”
– Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling.
I re-watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban this weekend. There is still so much there. And then I thought back on this quote. Such good advice, Dumbledore.
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You know that day when you're in the Flow?
I’ve had a really productive day today. It didn’t particularly start out that way. The sky remained gray and rainy throughout my drive to school and my first class, in spite of the weather report that read “Sunny and 85” loud and clear. I helped a friend run an errand, which took longer than I expected and seemed to detract from my productivity. And right now I’m...
