Barring any unforeseen changes (many a slip twixt cup and lip, and all that) Spring looks like:
From Genji to Godzilla
Sufism and Islamic Mysticism
Existentialism
Courtesans in Cross-Cultural Perspective
…and writing my Senior Honors Thesis: “Dr. John Dee, Sir Edward Kelley, and the Authorship of the ‘Angelic Conversations’”
Meanwhile, my quest to define my field of interest for graduate work, [...]
Categories: edjukashun
It doesn’t help that a) we have lots of CDs and I mean LOTS of ‘em and b) there’s a major trade-off between being able to store a lot in a small space versus being able to use them efficiently. Sure, if you only want to store something then you can get more creative on design because you’re mostly storing the item(s) in the most efficient way and the only external design element is how neatly you camouflage it… but if you want to also use the item? Cripes. Plus, how to store something with an eye towards accessible, efficient use without turning the item into this massive eye-pain of “wow, you’ve got a lot of X.”
Categories: organization
Tagged: media, renovation, storage
Just found out my proposed schedule for Spring is out the window, and I need to scramble to line up something completely different by the 28th. It seems I need to take 15 hours, including the thesis. All of them must be upper division. One must be a Philosophy class for my minor, and another [...]
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Because MY PLUMBAGO PLANT IS GONE.
GONE.
As in, NOT THERE ANYMORE.
THE ENTIRE THING.
I kept that plant alive all summer when everything else had died, and I kept staving it back up when Balto seemed to think it was fun to dig around the roots — remulched, put down heavier rocks around the base, etc. And the [...]
Categories: horde of hyenas
Tagged: yard
The floor had been about 90% done except for the last four feet stretch to the wall where the CDs were shelved, because we have too many goddamn CDs and moving them is always a hassle at least and a nightmare at worst. But if I was starting to get antsy about the incompleteness — [...]
Categories: sledgehammer renovation
Tagged: design, electrical, flooring, storage
The Spring class schedule is up, though of course none of the departments have updated their course description pages with the Spring offerings, so some of them are still a mystery. Anyway, what I need to fulfill my requirements are the second half of my senior thesis, an upper-level Philosophy class, and two free electives. [...]
Categories: edjukashun