Epiphanize This
Mar. 30th, 2006 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityofoneI am currently writing the world's worst essay on James Joyce's Dubliners (except for any essay ever written by my 12th grade English teacher, who claimed that the creepy old dude in "An Encounter" wasn't whacking off, when clearly...he's whacking off*), but an important question has arisen that must be answered:
[Poll #700967]
ETA: Dude, why're y'all voting for The Puddlejumpers for Shortest Band in the World? I'm sure Shep appreciates the publicity, but don't you think they're disqualified on the strength of Ronon alone?
Also, in other random Irish literature news, suitemate Jean just told me that John McGahern just died. That is so weird: I just finished reading his Amongst Women, and we're discussing it in class on Monday (with hot Scottish tutor Peter Mackay, no less!). All this, I know, has absolutely zero cosmic significance, but...I still feel it as odd, as quite sad.
*She also claimed that the line in "The Convergence of the Twain" about "that august event" referred to the month, "because the Titanic sank in August." When I pointed out that no, the Titanic sank in April, she got really huffy and was weird with me for the rest of the year.
[Poll #700967]
ETA: Dude, why're y'all voting for The Puddlejumpers for Shortest Band in the World? I'm sure Shep appreciates the publicity, but don't you think they're disqualified on the strength of Ronon alone?
Also, in other random Irish literature news, suitemate Jean just told me that John McGahern just died. That is so weird: I just finished reading his Amongst Women, and we're discussing it in class on Monday (with hot Scottish tutor Peter Mackay, no less!). All this, I know, has absolutely zero cosmic significance, but...I still feel it as odd, as quite sad.
*She also claimed that the line in "The Convergence of the Twain" about "that august event" referred to the month, "because the Titanic sank in August." When I pointed out that no, the Titanic sank in April, she got really huffy and was weird with me for the rest of the year.
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Date: 2006-03-30 04:13 pm (UTC)*waves pom poms* You can do it! You'll get through all of them and there will be chocolate and David Hewlett and sparkly things and, and boy sex! It will have a beginning and a middle and also, an end. I have faith, Trin, I do!
Those cookies must be awesome. Because not only is there tasty deliciousness, it's like a metaphor. Crunchy and a little tough on the outside, warm and gooey on the inside. John and Rodney - their love is so like cookies!
(Yes, I know I should never, ever use metaphors in my writing. *hangs head*)
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Date: 2006-03-30 04:25 pm (UTC)2,035! I just have to sum up now! Quick, let me arrive at a hurried and forced conclusion!
NO COOKIE METAPHORS! But it's not you, it's Joss Whedon. He has killed cookie metaphors for all time. Bad Joss.
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Date: 2006-03-30 04:32 pm (UTC)Oh, god. I remember the days when 2,000 words was all I had to write. *small tear* Stupid bloody dissertations and their stupid unnecessary length. D'you think if I just edited mine down to "So, there was this castle. It was old. And stuff," that it would be acceptable? Because I am this close to making like Grant and going to live in a storage closet.
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Date: 2006-03-30 04:38 pm (UTC)I thought you were done with the dis! Are you just trying to edit it down? I can help you with that...
Pour moi: One essay draft down, two to go!
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Date: 2006-03-30 04:48 pm (UTC)Oh, I have a draft. But it's the roughest thing in the history of rough, so, you know. Even though I have it written, it still haunts me. Like a zombie. (Speaking of which, next week we should! With the thing. Yes.)
I applaud your drafts! That is most excellent. You might even be finished by Sunday, at this rate. (If you are, might I suggest tea? Tea would be good. I have had no tea today, a fact which I am going to remedy RIGHT NOW)
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Date: 2006-03-30 04:54 pm (UTC)ZOMBIES! Yes, we must! Maybe we should try to finish it the way
If I am finished by Sunday, which *crosses fingers* I hope to be, we should definitely have tea, and I could look over your dissertation, and if you were feeling masochistic, you could look over my papers? And then we could be awesome productive people who were ALSO tea-infused? And additionally, there could be some David Hewlett.
Get thee to a teapot, go! 'Cause all work and no tea makes Siria a dull girl.
*nods*
*goes to make tea herself*
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Date: 2006-03-30 07:49 pm (UTC)Tea and mutual paper reading through would be good things, I think. There is nothing like being a tea-infused awesome person to make your self-worth levels go through the roof. Additional David Hewlett would be just additionally awesome.
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Date: 2006-03-30 09:00 pm (UTC)