And she's off to Paris

Well, I had to say goodbye to one of my closest friends here in Toronto today. Holly flew off to Paris for her year long adventure in the city of lights with her boy friend Chris.

After some touch and go at the airport over whether or not she would get on the plane, it boarded and she is now somewhere in the friendly skies flying away from her adopted family here in Toronto.

I am going to miss my lovely girl from Wales!

Course I am flying to Paris in June of next year to spend 2 weeks with her... oh yeah, you know that countdown has begun!

I love you Holls and I miss ya - already and it has not even been a day.

Pages and pages and pages and pages....

I am feeling like crap today. I am in week whatever the fuck it is of comps reading and this bitch is tired. I love reading (I mean would I be doing this if I didn't?), but I am just fucking tired of reading.

I waged war with Northrop Frye this week, finally conquered him today and have moved onto the Stone Diaries - which I love - but every time I finish a book I am all too aware of the next batch I have to do. For next week, I have a couple Early Modern Plays lined up, a whack of Whitman poems to read AND a Rushdie novel. Not to mention the fact that I finally want to finish Wuthering Heights and start on Moll Flanders.

The apartment is an explosion of books and papers... there has to be a better way to do this.

I am not sleeping enough, because I read in the evenings and end up staying up late either reading or working or actually finding time for myself to just relax, but then I get up early to start the day over again. Its an unending cycle...

I think reading Frye really put me over the edge with this whole comps thing, I saw no value in that exercise at all... it was not a helpful text, all it did was irritate me to no end. Also, I got a paper back today - the big HISTORY OF AFFECT one - and I was not happy. The comments were supportive, but they did not reflect the grade. Something that is very strange to me... if you liked it, then why not have the actual grade say so. Also, I am now having second thoughts about presenting it at a conference in Texas in September...

I'd like to stop now and relax... I think that I am taking Saturday off, yes I have declared it. Saturday = off... no if ands or buts... if I read it will be a novel on a Starbucks patio in the sun. Wanna join me?

Also, can someone please make sure I start going to bed early? Please?

My life is consumed by paper...

Secret of the FAIL!

I rarely will post stuff from other blogs here, but this one I HAD TO! I mean come on.

Taken from failblog.

Taking Fandom to a whole new level....

You too can be a wolf of the sea

This is just for Linsdey... who is totally obsessed with this song.

Hi hi hey!

"This is the room our children would play in."

Tonight I finally got around to watching the season finale of Grey's Anatomy... and I have to say that I was impressed. For the first time since the end of season 3, I finally can say that I am enjoying the show again. I was not very happy with the way they treated certain characters throughout this shortened season, I was happy to see that they are actually letting the group evolve and grow in particular ways.

I am happy that Christina is finally opening up to her interns. I am happy that Meredith and Derek are finally going to move ahead as a real couple and actually be a couple, without the scary damaged shit that she keeps playing on. And I am glad that they are going to let Izzie have a bigger story line than the whole "I am running around the hospital acting like an idiot" routine.

I'm not really sure what this post is about other than to say that I watched it and I enjoyed it...

oh... and of course the lesbian kiss at the end... FINALLY a real gay character that won't die or be sidelined.

good stuff Grey's... good stuff.