I give you: what happens when this (artistically illiterate) Literature major is asked to illustrate in ten minutes time the journey on which the two (hilarious, and neurotic, and learn-ed and) female lead characters embark, in the Romantic period novel “Sense and Sensibility,” her resources for said requested illustration including: three highlighters, one book-cover, two [...]

My original intention in traipsing down to Riverside State Park was to find a quiet, semi-cozy place to read. (I say “semi-cozy” because associating full-cozy with the notion of reading typically means, at least for me, that more sleep will be accomplished than reading.) But more specifically than just a place to dive into The [...]

The research paper that would not be written is finally done, saved on two disks, and will be printed momentarily in all of its twelve page splendor. The rest of my winter finals are complete, the rest of my papers stapled and turned in to their respective professors’ boxes. I am alive. And now comes [...]

I have been technically up since 4am this morning. I awoke that early intentionally, to register for classes, but more specifically to ensure that I was able to be placed in the class with only fifteen seats that I need to complete in order to graduate this June.
I am happy to announce that the registration [...]

We are currently reading a play in one of my literature classes in which there is a central character named Ventidius. Notice the “d,” functioning as most letter d’s do, making the d as in “deem” sound in Ventidius. My professor apparently failed to notice the letter d in Ventidius, while also failing to realize [...]

The scene is My Workplace. The day is Friday. The time is Some Time After Lunch And Before The End Of The Shift. The pervading sense of mood is Crazy. Enter four of my co-workers and myself, waiting (im)patiently for another Friday to leave us in its dust, and thus plop us down happily staring [...]

Today I found myself alone in my room studying phonetics for my “Language, Structure and Use” class. As such I found myself repeating the words “pit” and “spit” over and over to myself, with a finger in each ear, so I could actually hear the Ok, fine! present, but still so very minute difference between [...]

This quarter I am taking an upper level Restoration and 18th Century Literature class. When I registered for the class last quarter there was no hint that it would center solely on Restoration and 18th Century drama, but our professor likes to laugh, and apparently thinks the topics of infidelity and lewd behavior on stage [...]

It’s nice to belong. To feel as if those people with whom you have somewhat consistent interaction in your life actually see you sometimes. Days when you know they can hear the smile resting behind your voice; days, too, when they reveal that they can hear the rainclouds forming behind your eyes. Even the most [...]

Eastern Washington University would apparently like to think themselves mighty sneaky, although from my viewpoint them are seemingly out of practice. After much deliberation on whether or not I would have time to take sign language, a fairly useless (as I only have time for one quarter of it), but nonetheless interesting elective, I came [...]