Emera ([info]eluneth) wrote,
@ 2009-09-24 23:56:00
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Entry tags:books, knitting, school, snapshots, writing

That glovin' feeling


Yes, I has an addiction. My lovely roommate modeled for me this time, which made things 100x easier, too. Click for 'em on Etsy

This semester has been weirdly busy, in part because I've been absurdly indecisive about classes, but I think I'm settled now. (Corollary: Sorry I haven't been keeping up with the f-list; I've been doing the whole reading-but-not-commenting thing.) So many good bio classes this semester! I haven't been back to lab yet, but I have been nibbling at my poetry thesis here and there (when I finally meet my adviser next Wednesday, I might ask her about sneaking in some fiction too), so overall things are looking... okayish. Although I am already massively in sleep debt. lol.

I've been reading from Steven Strogatz's Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life, which is cool as all get out. I can see now why my roomie is so obsessed with science writing - I haven't really read anything beyond actual papers and the occasional NYT Science article. :X So reading whole chapters of stuff you're meant to actually understand without reams of background reading and side discussion is pretty refreshing. Makes me wish I were actually good at math, too. oh you rakish biological mathematicians, with your proofs and models!

Today I sat in on one of my roomie's classes (American Women Writers), for the purpose of listening to her professor lecture on Twilight. (She paused at one point and murmured, "This book makes my head hurt.") Fanfreakingtastic stuff. I promised [info]fairnymph a while ago that I would try to pull together an essay on the eroticism of vampires, and the last 10 minutes of the lecture were basically that. *clings to her notes* It was all too glorious! I wonder if she's ever taught a vampire fiction course? xenophobia! class/race tension! queerness galore! Also glorious. Also also, it totally made my day that she referred to "fantasy literature" and "vampire literature."

Also also also, at the end of the class I was writing so quickly that I spelled Edward as "Edwad," which only seems appropriate.

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[info]stuffu
2009-09-25 04:12 pm UTC (link)
UPLOAD YOUR NOTES


SCAN IN YOUR NOTES

TRANSCRIBE YOUR NOTES

I AM SO DEADLY JEALOUS. YOU. DO. NOT. EVER. WANT. TO. MEET. ME .AGAIN.

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[info]chokletghost
2009-09-25 06:25 pm UTC (link)
hahaha

i'm intrigued by everything you said. also LOVE the gloves, but they look like a lot of work! :O

.... ummm... "good bio classes" ?
*despises bio classes and loves craft classes*

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[info]eluneth
2009-09-27 05:26 pm UTC (link)
Gloves are fiddly, but not that hard once you've gotten used to them. This is something like my 8th pair of gloves this year, sooo... don't have to put that much thought into figuring them out anymore.

Poor Tiffy, burdened with bio classes. ;P I like humanities and sciences in almost equal measure, so I'm always happy bouncing between the two.

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[info]axoloti
2009-10-02 06:52 pm UTC (link)
hee hee ^___^ ya know i once tried to knit a rainbow sock with one of those circular things and you just move the yarn around the circle. it came out pretty badly with holes at the ankle part. XD your gloves are great!!

that's really great you enjoy bio =) what are you gonna do after college?

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[info]eluneth
2009-09-27 05:18 pm UTC (link)
I was thinking about it, of course. We'll see if I get motivated enough to do so. :X

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[info]greatskyriver
2009-09-28 11:29 pm UTC (link)
I second the uploading of notes! (Shall we gang up on you...?)

Flight of the Conchords! Just discovered them, they're hil-a-rious. XD

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[info]pebble_galaxy
2009-10-01 12:47 pm UTC (link)
The gloves are adorable! And what are you pursuing degrees in? Creative writing and some mysterious biology-related focus that will baffle me?

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[info]eluneth
2009-10-01 03:56 pm UTC (link)
Thanks!
Major in ecology & evolutionary biology, minor in creative writing. :)

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