Friday marked 99 days until graduation!

In which I recover (mostly) from a weeklong sickness, finish the term by the skin of my teeth, go to Boston, and return for Spring Break.

It is the end of Ninth Week!  The pressure is on, and I am... pretty sleepy, actually.  Let's see what we can do about that.

Done with comps!! Done with comps!! Done with comps!!

Comps is done!  Holy cow!  It's GREAT to not have to think about it anymore (even though I obviously am) and not I have all this free time to devote to other things.  So here's a countdown that's been rolling through my head the past few days...MORE

Already? Really?

... So everyone is buried in reading, writing, presentation-making, studying, and silly Youtube videos.  Myself included - I have a 15-20 page research paper draft due tomorrow.  I will post probably tomorrow or Wednesday.  Sorry guys.

However, you should know that my writing playlist is consisting of the Magic Flute - that's right, the German opera composed by Mozart.  This music is being shared on iTunes by a linguistics prof, Mike Flynn.  Thank you Mike Flynn!

This post is about a game which we are playing in my Classics class.   If you are in my Classics class, no fair reading this.  That's cheating.  If not, read on!

Liz invited me home over spring break.

My final draft of comps is due Friday, so I've not really been doing much this past week.  Well actually that's a lie, I've done a lot, but I should have been doing comps (for those of you who don't know what comps is, it's a major specific project that is basically our senior thesis).  So instead...MORE

One of my friends recently remarked (from personal experience)-  “At Carleton whenever conversations get awkward, you can always bring up the weather!”...

As you know, I am in a CAMS class studying French and German cinema.  I am here to tell you about the best of the best of these movies.  Full disclosure: many are VERY graphic or unsettling - none are a really safe for kids, and most have violence in varying forms, mostly graphic and onscreen.  Many are unrelenting.  There's also a lot of offensive language, but that's probably less of a problem for most people.

That said, many of them are LANDMARK films in the French and German post-war cinematic landscape.

If you're looking for lighter viewing, try Amelie, Paris Je T'aime, and French Twist.  These are all French, because I tend to watch more French movies in general.