Pigeon Haben

Last weekend we went to David’s cousin’s Pidyon Ha Ben (an unusual Jewish baby-selling ritual…look it up on Wikipedia).  It was held in the baby’s maternal grandmother’s living room, and the baby’s grandfather had made two page print outs explaining the prayers and songs.
The loving grandfather had sought out illustrations for his hastily made pamphlet [...]

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In not more than 500 words, please describe how your interests and achievements, both academic and extracurricular, demonstrate a capacity for leadership and a commitment to improving the lives of others.

In not more than 500 words, please describe how your interests and achievements, both academic and extracurricular, demonstrate a capacity for leadership and a commitment to improving the lives of others.
These are practice ideas.  They’re on the weblog because when I write in word its all too stressful.
So.
My younger sister has spent the past four [...]

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This Weekend

This weekend is a bit of a mad rush towards greater peace.
My first applications are due Tuesday.  As always, I’m hopeful about them, but am pretty open to having my hopes dashed.  We’re moving in to the flat this weekend (yay! finally!), and while the living room has still not been painted, I’m pretty hopeful [...]

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The African King

In the British Library I sit across from an African King.  He wears a suit and a sport jacke and a hat like a giant upside down cone on his head (upside down meaning that the wide end is up).  I sit in seat 127 and we’ve never spoken.
We’ve never spoken, that is, until today.  [...]

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Vacation

When I come back to London I’m always really jet lagged.  Now, almost a week later, I’m still waking up in the middle of the night and staying awake for hours.
The effect of jet lag is no good for a weary traveler.  You basically skip a nights sleep and then can’t sleep thereafter. 
Because of the [...]

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Academic Snobbery

When I originally did college applications my family had decided that they didn’t want me to apply to schools on the East Coast, because they were too far away, and that they didn’t want me to apply to Ivy League schools, because they were too snobby.
Yet I have to say, my perpetual education, western and [...]

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Return

Its a difficult return to London, this time, presumably because I’m still jet lagged and sleepy.
Its hard because at home is a sense of total peace.  Nothing is disruptive.  This is both because I live in nature and because we’ve spent the last months eating mostly plum pies baked from the fruit in the back [...]

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Civic

Me: I thought you weren’t driving the Civic on road trips?
My Father: I think of this car as more like a living organism.  My general attitude has been when something is wrong hopefully it will heal itself.  So far it has.

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Revitilization

I know I keep promising this, but a massive weblog revitilization project is in the works.  You’ll know when it happens.  My goal is to integrate this (dying weblog) with my previous (dead weblog), in an edited, moderately spell checked version.  It will…rock?
Catch you on the flip side.

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Dissertation!

Done. PDF’d. Sent to the printers. Hopefully turned in this afternoon (knock on wood)!

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Resistance

I’m just phenominally disinterested in writing the second half of my introduction.  Damn introduction!

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Get into Fall with Autum

When I was in first grade the fifth grader running for school president was called Autum and that was her slogan.
Fall seems to be here.  I would say that I like fall the best of all the seasons, but I worry that I just think that because its similar to summer and you end up [...]

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Rain

It’s bad weather here, exactly what I need to fuel my long day in the library. British weather makes studying easy and I’m coming to not mind rain (though I could do without the six-hour days in the winter).

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Vision

I have a vision for life, and I realize it’s just pretend. I realize it’s all pretty dependent on what other things happen and how things work out, but its a nice vision and I’m going for it.
The first thing is that I finish my dissertation, and that works out, and leads to a [...]

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July

Traditionally I like July, but in England it seems to rain.  However, the rain has been really helpful, given the amount of time I’ve had to spend in the library.
On the 29th we head to Oregon (its the state between Califorina and Washington where the sunset grows), and August should rock (though be hot as [...]

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Autumn

I look forward to the fall.
I’m enjoying my dissertation, but it’s pretty stressful and I’m ready to say I’ve nearly had enough.
I’m glad I’m splitting work and school for a year, but I look way forward to getting PhD applications done and knowing where I’ll be for that, and working full time and making some [...]

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Oregon

I find that, in London, a lot of people don’t know where Oregon is (which, interestingly, I generally find right before I find that they thing Americans are insular and don’t know much about other countries).  I also find that, in London, many people are not all that curteous, which is to say many conversations [...]

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Engagement

So, though it’s girly, I’ve been asked by several people, so here, well rehearsed, is an engagement story (it’s fine, I hear, from David, that there are many on the internet, so one more is not so bad).
On the 18th of June (precisely a 2.33 years after we started dating) we went for a hike [...]

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The Mystery of the Burial Mound

In a field next to our hotel there were standing stones, a bit like stone henge. These, I am assured, are real and were set up by celtic kings long long ago.
There was also a celtic burial mound, which had a cave face held up by two rocks. This cave faced away from [...]

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Welsh Hotel

In Wales we staid in a hotel that was adjacent to caves which are said to be one of the major natural wonders in the United Kingdom (we didn’t see them, as we’d intended to go to them on our last day in the morning before we drove back to London, only to find that [...]

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Road Sign in Wales (English Version)

Road sign in Wales (without the Welsh):
Roman Ruins, 3 miles.
Big Hole, 3.5 miles.

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Wales

K. David and I are off to Wales this weekend (as of tonight, which means a four day weekend!), which couldn’t come too soon. It’s been a long and hard fought week. I’ve written the better part of a chapter. My boss has been mad as a hornet (initially at my [...]

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Spelling!

My spelling is bad! And I catch a huge amount of flack for it! But surely you know what I’m trying to say, darn it all.

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The Future

The future is bright and the work it takes is interesting.  My current paper rocks.  Yes, rocks.  In a 16th century lit theory kind of way.

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Latimer

Stephanie Latimer comes today (check her weblog for reports of her visit, perhaps) and so the sun, which we’ve had for a solid two months now, has gone. Maybe Kew or Picasso this weekend, though, both of which would be good. Ah, Pomona people. They warm my heart.

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Drama

They’re filming a BBC1 Drama across the road from where I live (the film crew saw me bight it the other day when I was running). It’s in an old, dirty looking Victorian house. It’s a costume drama and it’s got a clever title: It’s called Desperate Romantics, because it’s about people [...]

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Sunrise, Sunset

It’s the day before Pesach, a day when you’ve got to get all the bread out of your house, and you’ve got to cook for the sedar that night, and a day, apperantly, when you have to get up and see sunrise.
So.  I got up this morning and put on my running duds to go [...]

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Google

I finally seem to be back on Google!  Yay!
I hope to re-vamp the weblog soon (as you know, it needs it) and up the quality of the posting.  Particularly because we’re now on Google again, and this could just be a bit embarrassing.  I also seem to turn up in quite a bit of literature [...]

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Undergrads

Yesterday I saw a tall Scottish researcher (whose been in the library every day since I started my programme here in September) yell at an undergraduate who took his seat.
Yesterday I saw an undergraduate swear at a very famous literary critic who wouldn’t let her talk to her friend about the facebook gossip.
Today I couldn’t [...]

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Add 81083

Additional 81083. WILLIAM SCOTT, M. P.: ‘THE MODELL OF POESYE’, an essay in criticism, and a partial translation into English verse of Du Bartas’s La Sepmaine; circa 1598-1600. Imperfect. Fair copies in a scribal italic with occasional corrections, partly autograph, the prefaces signed ‘Will: Scott’. The author (circa 1579-circa but after [...]

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[Minor] Success!

I get to speak at the King’s College London Postgraduate Conference. How prestigious is that? Not very at all. However, it is good to present at conferences, in any case, and I’ll be presenting the paper that appeals most to the Oxford Professor that will be my my supervisor there, if I [...]

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Undergrads

The British Library apparently fills up in the spring with undergraduates. This means if you don’t get into the ‘brary by 10:00 you will have a hard time finding a locker, and a harder time not getting annoyed at everyone. It’s hard to find seats (though easier in Rare Books and Manuscripts), and [...]

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Protests

The Protests were really anticlimactic, though I hear they did close Liverpool Street Station. They’re still supposed to Protest tomorrow, but unless they get serious about it, I don’t think it matters all that much.

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April 1st

In an interesting move, London is in turmoil over the G20. In a move very different from what we’re used to in the states, the protesters have “promised violence”. It’s not that there’s fear of violence or whatever, but rather there is “promised violence” with the stated goal of “burning bankers”. It’s [...]

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Easter

This year all the Easter Eggs come in entirely recyclable wrap. The boxes are not plastic but rather paper, and they foil can be recycled as cans. How do I know? Because all the Easter egg boxes have a long explaination on their side about how recyclable they are.
Why is it [...]

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Re-Vamp

I want to reorgainze the weblog.  It’s going to be a process.  I’m not sure how to do it yet.
Do you see the tabs at the top?  Do you see how I added “Oregon”?  I want to add a bunch of tabs that allow me to classify different posts under different chapter headings.  I know, [...]

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List of Things to Do.

The big things to do by September are:
My two little papers and my thesis (including critical survey).
My Carew paper and my Hamlet paper.
My PhD applications.
My plan for next year.

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Schedule

That’s right, I can’t have a weblog without a schedule.
So. Today I’ve finished writing my damn Hamlet paper for my darned Hamlet class. I’ll edit it tomorrow.
By April 12th (about two weeks) I’ve got to finish both the Hamlet paper to a really good standard, and the paper on Gabriel Harvey.
This will give [...]

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Rights

Advertising is cheap, these days, because no one can afford it. Because of this a lot of public interests and charities are buying advertising space.
The London Police Department recently started running an ad on bus shelters saying “Anything you say can be held against you”. It’s just a big sign saying that. [...]

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Lost

Currently I can’t find:
My British Library Card
My ATM Card
My Pearl Necklace
My Crystal Necklace
If you see any of them, please give them to me. I look forward to the days of a single residence. I know where everything is at home, though I haven’t been there for months.

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Apartment

David and his father bought an apartment! It’s a beautiful little apartment and it looks out over a view of trees and London. And we’ll have a pull out couch, my loyal readers! Come visit us post-August.

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Accomm E-mail

Toby, in the accommodation office, told me that the e-mail we all use to send our questions about accommodation to (accomm@kcl.ac.uk) doesn’t work. An hour (literally) after he said that, we got an e-mail from it. I told him so, and he asked me to forward the e-mail we got to him. [...]

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Tired

I’m so so so so so so tired. And I just want to go home now. If I went home, I’d go to the tulip gardens this weekend with my mother and I’d see the daffodils, there are so many new kinds these days, and we’d think about what to plant next year, [...]

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Ant

There is one mystical boy in my office. He knows how to transfer calls. None of us know how to transfer calls but him. I’ve had jobs before that required me to transfer calls and they were always the worst, because knowing how to transfer calls is an unknowable, impossible skill. [...]

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Fair Trade Caffeine

There is a machine in the library that gives you sort of half a cup of fair trade chocolate coffee for 60 pence. It’s worth it. It’s good and it’s the only caffeine you’ll get in the library.

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19th

Why did I get so many views on February 19th?
The Opera (in case this is why I got so many views) wasn’t very good at all. Remember when Andrew and Bennett and Edan had a film club? This was an opera for that film club. This was an opera for [...]

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Reading

Someday I’ll not have another job and I’ll be able to spend the whole day, 9:30-8:00, just in the British Library. Maybe the British Library will even stop being lazy and open earlier.

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Pancake Day

In Britain it’s Pancake Day. I know, what the hell is Pancake Day. Weirder still, they actually mean Crepe Day.

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Adults

Well, one of my first friends to be happily married is also one of my first friends to be happily pregnant, and the whole scenario seems way adult to me.
However, she’s not got her BA yet (because she comes from the world of fundamentalism, where it’s just as good to be happily married and pregnant [...]

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For Stephanie

This is an interview with Aaron Kunin, who made my senior undergraduate year in literature.  Stephanie will appreciate it.  Other people may well, too.  He’s great.

1. What is the first poem you ever loved? Why?
The problem with admitting that you love a poem is that it leaves you open to all kinds of [...]

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Renaissance Self-Fashioning

This will be a key book, I believe, in many papers, I’m afraid.

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A Night Less Ordinary

London, to bail out the theater industry, is buying a huge amount of shows tickets and giving them for free to 16-26 year olds, first come, first serve. I got a lot of fancy tickets yesterday through this program, but they’re going quite quickly, so if you think you might be coming to visit, [...]

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Vladimir Jurowski in Vita Nova

That’s right, I got 4 pound opera tickets that were by one get one free, so essentially 2 pound opera tickets, and we’re going to the opera tomorrow. Who’s going? Me and David (we’ll have been dating for two years), Julia who is very nice, Sam Lees (called Slees, who is also very [...]

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Aliens

As I was running in the heath today I passed three women:
Women 1: No, that was the ionic stratusphere.
Woman 2: No, I’m telling you, it was too low for that.
Woman 1: What could it have been, then. It was a rough landing.
Woman 3: I didn’t think it was so bad, and I [...]

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Stats

Also, the announcement that I was reinvigorating the weblog has not increased my readership at all, which must mean that those loyal readers I have reviewed old material with the same loyalty that they read new material.

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Moleskin

Moleskin notebooks are expensive. I can’t aford to keep notes in them, though I love them and I keep my calender in one (because that’s a calender, it’s important and it’ll last the whole year and a half). When you buy a Moleskin, it comes with an insert called “The story of a [...]

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Badger People

Me:  What else is up there?
My Mother:  Well, we’re switching from Dish to Direct TV because I want high definition and this way we can get away from those disgusting badger people.
Me:  Badger people?
My Mother:  Yes.

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Ice Driving

In London, if they can see snow, they don’t use their breaks. This means that when it’s slushy (but it’s above freezing and there’s no ice) many people run off the road because they’re afraid to break so instead they just take their chances and plow onto the sidewalk. It’s unnearving.

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Rugged

Today’s run was rugged and slushy and though I set forth to discover new territory, it is probably not territory I’ll seek out again, any time soon.

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Warning

On an apparently not-brick (it looks like bricks, but it must not be) building near my dorm:
Warning: Anti-Climb Paint.
Glad to be warned.

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Mr. Johnson

Sent to me by the lovely Ms. Latimer:
“Mr Johnson said: “I think we’ve done pretty well in what are absolutely extraordinary circumstances.
“There’s no doubt about it, this is the right kind of snow, it’s just the wrong kind of quantities.
“My message to the heavens is: ‘You’ve put on a fantastic display of snow power but [...]

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Mad

Apparently Europe is mad at the American stimulus plan, because it’s America-centric. Apparently the plan says that if you take government money to keep your business from bancruptcy, then you must buy American raw materials. Europe doesn’t think that’s fair because they want to sell us steal.
I’d say, what makes it not a [...]

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Guarded Response

In response to my previous complaint regarding the avant gaurde, I was sitting in Starbucks today, listening to one boy say “Well if none of us matter then of course neither does Nietche”, and another girl say “well, if you ever read Checkov, you’ll find it’s just about how the world is rubbish and live [...]

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Rooms Closed

Once there was a sign at the Rare Books Reading Room saying “Room Full; No further readers will be allowed into rare books, as all desks are taken”. Disappointed, I headed towards Humanities Reading Room 1 (a room for people whose books aren’t that special, anyway, filled with undergraduates and others who aren’t as [...]

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The point

The point of the last post is:
1. Unlike at Pomona, the people in my program rank themselves in the world literally by which works they’ve edited (i.e. the girl who thinks she’s super-smart thinks she’s smart because she re-edited an edition of Henry V, not because she’s watched a lot of Fallini and Antoni Oni [...]

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The Changing of the Avant Guarde

I guess in London there arn’t hipsters in the way there are in California. Here, anyone who is wearing a cordory jacket seems really to be wearing it because it is cold, and no one is willing to put patches on the elbows. Similarly, scarves are warn for warmth and glasses are functional, [...]

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Library Quest 2.1

February has started with quite a bit of snow in London, for which they were not prepared.
The day started with a tenous journey down the hill in my down very Londoned sage and baige cowboy boots, which involved a certain amount of slipping as the powdery four inches turned entirely to ice. [...]

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By Popular Demand

Well, I’m embarrased how neglected I’ve let the weblog become, and I’m thankful to my followers who demand further webloging, and London’s quite frusterating at the moment, so weblog go!

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Research Assistant

Today I got to hold second-round interviews for my assistant at work. That’s quite exciting.
And today I found that Professor Runions thanks me in her book “Queering Non-Humans” for working as a research assistant. Thank you professor Runions. She also thanks Professor Kunin, so I’m thanked in the same book as Kunin.

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Back

I have a story of an epic run to tell, but I’ve got to pack and get back to London.

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Caffine

My Mother: Oh! What’s this? Oh, it’s a present from your secretary. That’s nice. It’s coffee.
My Father: It’s decaf.
My Mother: What?
My Father: I think she must hate me. I don’t know what I did.

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2300

Right now I’ve got 2300 views, which is pretty good.  It was helped by a huge spike in views the day I announced he return of the weblog in a hard-core way.
In about a day (on Saturday) I head back to England again, which means a return to procrastination, which means the weblog should be [...]

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Attention Span

My father and I sit in a room, both trying to do our work. I say “Look, it’s the 15-pound club” and point to the little dog and the big cat, who are sleeping together.
My Father: I bet Oscar’s not 15 pounds, and I bet Fatso is more than 15 pounds.
Me: I [...]

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New Age

My father had the new age channel on while he was doing the dishes because it sooths the dogs into a trance.
My Father: This is called “Alone” by Moby. Before that was “Swimming with Stones”.
Me: Give me the clicker. The new age is driving me crazy.
My Father: It seems like [...]

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Big City Mayors

Reports the Wall Street Journal about the customary meeting between the Mayor of London (Boris Johnson) and the Mayor of New York (Michael Bloomberg), shortly after Johnson took office:
“Days after his election, New York Mayor Miachel Bloom berg stopped by, and there was a little mix-up over the customary gifts. Mr. Bloomberg gave the [...]

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The Revival of the Weblog

All I can say is that I acknowledge that I’ve been massively remiss in the weblog, something that is dissappointing for us all. I was just about to get motiviated, too, but then I realized WordPress had changed their format, and that shot my productivity in the foot. However, having aquired real cowboy [...]

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For New Years

Before January 1 I’m going to finish all my school work. This way I’ll have ten days at home without work. Yep. Yee-haw.

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Son of God

My Sister: Well, grandfather, you don’t believe in God, do you?
My Grandfather: I don’t believe, with my human brain, I can understand or sense all the forces at work in our wide and infinite universe. I am sure that there are thousands of forces at work which I don’t know anything about.
My Sister: So [...]

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Yes and No

My Father: I think something tried to attack this computer and put a virus on. Something said “download new software” and I thought “no” so I clicked “No”, but now it keeps coming up, but I clicked “No”.
Me: Those things are tricky. Sometimes even clicking in the box at all is [...]

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French

Me:  Well, Oscar doesn’t really have a chin, does he?
My Mother: Well, he’s a papillon, so he’s French, which is how they are.

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Snow

It’s snowy in Oregon, which is pretty rare.  Oscar thinks it’s food.

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St. Paul

The British Library librarian walked over and handed me a book and said “sorry”. I said “no prob” and he walked off.
I looked at the book and it was not one that I’d ordered. In fact, it wasn’t even a book that I’m allowed to see. It was an unbound 1581 [...]

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Second Earl of Oxford

Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
Were I a king
Were I a king I could command content ;
Were I obscure, unknown should be my cares;
And were I dead, no thoughts should me torment,
Nor words, nor wrongs, nor loves, nor hopes, nor fears.
A doubtful choice, of three things one to crave,
A kingdom, or a cottage, or [...]

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White Hair

These curious locks, so aptly twined,
Whose every hair a soul doth bind,
Will change their auburn hue and grow
White and cold as winter’s snow.
While I’ve been in London I’ve developed a white streak in my hair.  Boo.

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I’m Working at the Moment

At the moment what I’m doing is looking at this manuscript (i.e. handwritten text) from 1621, which seems to be more or less a pornography written by some annonymous guy about Dr. John Donne and his wife.  It’s ackward.  However, what I’m claiming (in response to a prompt; I did not chose Barthes myself) is [...]

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Carew’s Elegy on Dr. Donne

AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF DR. DONNE,
DEAN OF PAUL’S.
CAN we not force from widow’d poetry,
Now thou art dead, great Donne, one elegy,
To crown thy hearse ?   Why yet did we not trust,
Though with unkneaded dough-baked prose, thy dust,
Such as the unscissor’d lecturer, from the flower
Of fading rhetoric, short-lived as his hour,
Dry as the [...]

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S.Latimer

It looks like, if all goes as intended, Ms. Latimer will be joining me in London come spring, which will mean we can get a little apartment and live like real people.  Anyone else care to join?  We’d totally take all roommates.

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Milk

In the graduate student housing kitchen, people let their milk spoil.  Really frequently and unilaterally, people let their milk spoil.  Like most, I’m pretty put off by spoiled milk, and I’ve found that every night that I stay at the dorm, I dream about spoiled milk, the endemic has become so severe.  Why let milk [...]

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UK Rain

Add on the subway:
Why put up with UK rain when you could go to Ukrain!

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Running

The weather is great for running and running is great!  Unfortunately, there are a few sketchy types in London who make it less cool, but it’s still absolutely excellent.

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Theft

Mr Farhad Hakimzadeh, a former British Library Reader, is due to appear at Wood Green Court today (Friday 21 November). Hakimzadeh has pleaded guilty to ten counts of theft from the Library, and asked for further charges to be taken into account. He has also admitted theft from the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Sentencing in [...]

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Dorms

The good thing about dorms is also the bad thing.  The thing is, as soon as you walk out of your door, you see two or three friendly, smiling faces who’d like to chat and make small talk.  This is very nice and is always pleasant to see, but it is bizzarly different than a [...]

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John Donne Jr.

The weirdest thing John Donne’s son has said, so far, is “And, although in some parts of the World the Sun may see the Men eating their god, and in six hours journy farther, he may see the gods eating the Men, although he may have behld as many Religions, as he produced Insects, yet [...]

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Conclusions

CONCLUSION: Donne wants personal salvation and immortality, but he sees death as necessary to achieve ultimate internal life. Associated with this, he has no desire to gain immortality through living memory by publishing his work, in fact, he has encountered so many problems with the uncontrolled attention achieved by publishing, that he would rather limit [...]

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Hamley’s

My Father: What’s this store you’re working in?
Me: Hamley’s. On Regent Street. It’s famous. It’s the biggest toy store in Europe.
My Father: Yah? Well, there’s a famous saddle-maker out in Stanton, on the boarder with Idaho, who is the biggest saddlemaker in Oregon, which is also called Hamley’s.

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News

Me: What’s up?
My Father: On the way to Coos Bay I saw a bob cat.  The cayotes sounded closer than usual yesterday.  It sounds like they’re in LaVerne’s yard.  Lee has an infection.  Obama won the election.

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Lines

You haven’t lived until you’ve seen the line that coils around the courtyard in front of the British Library right before it opens at 9:30 in the morning.  Who ever saw such lines for a library?

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Strike

In Britain they warn you when they’re going to strike.  You’d think that this would make the strikes kind of ineffective, but instead what happens is everyone goes about life as usual, as though they don’t expect a strike, and then are really inconveineced when the strike occurs.  It’s bizzar.  For example:
British Library: Industrial Action [...]

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Free Tea

Today is a day of free tea.  I came into town at a normal working time, which meant I got to King’s Cross about an hour and a half before the British Library opened at 9:30.  Getting off the OVERGROUND TRAIN (yay for overground trains!) I was handed two free tea bags and free water [...]

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JLE

On the Jewish Learning Exchange’s calender events men can go to are blue and events women can go to are red, and events everyone can go to (there’s only three of these) are green.  Interestingly enough, that’s probably how you’d seperate them for Kosher, too, and foods with milk would be blue, foods with meat [...]

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