The More I Read, The Less I Understand

Yesterday's conversation with the haberdasher'd one turned to a (I think yiddish) phrase which I can no longer remember, and if I could remember it I wouldn't be able to spell it. The gist of it was that you need enough meat on your ass to be able to sit down and get your work done.

That said:

Ways I have procrastinated on my thesis since giving up a certain stupid social website for lent:
1) Messing with the 'logs (look! tags! SWEET!)
2) Reading/Translating Frederico Garcia Lorca.
3) Messing around on Pandora.com
4) Making mix CDs (Dmitri reports that he does this, too.)
5) Perfecting my bibliography.

Seriously. Working on the bibliography to avoid writing the paper is a new depth of procrastination, even for me.

Five Things I Have Tried To Like Because My Friends Do

...and still just don't.

1. dinosaur comics (Although today's does remind me of Mr. Thompson: "A new lunar year, and guess who's still not married?")

2. White Russians

3. The Flaming Lips (Actually, the song of theirs playing on Pandora as I write this is not so annoying, but still... eh. I prefer Broken Social Scene, for reasons unclear even to me.)

4. Great Expectations (Quod Mother: "If you start to like Dickens because of that boy, I will be forever in his debt.")

5. The cookies Andrew brings to Calvert House.

Five Things I Have Discovered Because of My Friends:

1. xkcd

2. Iphigenie en Tauride, the first opera I honestly enjoyed.

3. Dar Williams (okay, so this isn't a recent discovery)

4. Amaretto sour (yummy).

5. The culinary possibilities of mushrooms.



Conclusion: Eh, whatever, I do my own thing. Although I really should try to like Dickens...

Five Abstract Nouns I Use in My BA

1. Transformation
2. Liberation
3. Sanctification
4. Locality
5. The Divine.

The last one is a habit I particularly need to break.

Things I Can Do If Grad Schools Don't Want Me:

1) Go to Wales, join a radical political group (trials are expensive and extradition is messy)
2) Join the Poor Claires and/or found an order on the Amalfi Coast
3) Get a crappy job, move to New York, hang out with Anne's friends until I find a nice Catholic Morgan Stanley Corporate Lawyer of my own
4) Move home and work in a plant nursery, taking language classes on the side
5) Take out more loans, go to Culinary School, become a baker

Unattainable Men I Have Had Crushes On

Almanzo Wilder (1991-1993) (Dead, Portrayed in the "Little House" Books)

Fox Mulder (1997-1999) (Fictional Character, Slightly Insane)

Aragorn, Son of Arathorn (Fictional Character) (?-present)

That Waiter At The Cafe on West Portal (2003-present)

Peter Abelard (2005) (Dead and Castrated)

Alice's Top Five Most-Often-Used Punctuation Marks

5. period ( . )

4. comma ( , )

3. ellipsis ( ... )

2. em-dash (--)

1. parenthesis ( () )