New Books!!!! w00t:
The Complete Poems of Christopher Marlowe
The Complete Poems of Jonathon Swift
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Life With Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Long Valley by John Steinbeck
The Complete Works of Hans Christian Anderson
Chasing Dogma by Kevin Smith...
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The Complete Poems of Christopher Marlowe
The Complete Poems of Jonathon Swift
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Life With Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Long Valley by John Steinbeck
The Complete Works of Hans Christian Anderson
Chasing Dogma by Kevin Smith...
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evanx:
Heh, I own one of those, can you guess wich? 
salome:
I love The Unbearable Lightness of Being! It got me through a bad breakup, actually. Tell me what you think of it when you finish it.
I have a paper to write. It's only two pages, so I'm not freaking out, but I just really don't feel like writing it. I have to choose from one of Shakespeare's sonnets that we read, something from the first book of the Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser or from the Defense of Poesy or the first 10 sonnets of Astrophil and Stella by Philip...
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crispy:
Yup, largest crowd ever for a college b-ball game in PA. I should've been there, dammit!
TWO DAYS 'TIL PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORT TO CLEARWATER!!!
TWO DAYS 'TIL PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORT TO CLEARWATER!!!
crispy:
Woohoo!! I got an email from the Phillies earlier offering a "six-pack". I got two tickets each to six games of my choosing, including THE HOME OPENER against the Cards, and the Saturday night game against the BoSox. The other four are a combo of FLA, ATL, and NYM.
I can't wait!!
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I can't wait!!
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I'm so stressed and frustrated and annoyed. My car is on its last legs. It is not reliable enough for me to work this weekend. So, I had to find people to cover my shifts and I'm going to be fucking broke from not working. And I have to spend a ton of money on a new car. I wanted to save the money I...
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emtdan:
sorry to hear that dood..I hate dealing with car salesmen
willdabeast:
i'm free anytime sunday. just give me a call when you head out. 
Suppose I should update....it has been a week after all....
I finished reading Oliver Twist. I liked it. Granted there were some cheesy coincidences in it; some improbable occurances that can only be chalked up to Dickens pondering the role of fate in our lives....but on the whole, I thought it was damn good. Now I just have to wait a couple weeks until...
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I finished reading Oliver Twist. I liked it. Granted there were some cheesy coincidences in it; some improbable occurances that can only be chalked up to Dickens pondering the role of fate in our lives....but on the whole, I thought it was damn good. Now I just have to wait a couple weeks until...
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salome:
My thesis was, unfortunately, an academic one rather than practical experience in translations, which is what the bulk of the degree program was. I researched esoteric questions of dubious practicality regarding semantic change in Russian economic terms borrowed from English. 
Even if Lit doesn't lead to anything more "fulfilling" or lucrative than philosophy, at least you're doing something you enjoy. People make career changes all the time now, we are no longer a slave to that 50s ideal of working for the same company all your life, so you should just study what makes you happy. You probably won't get a job based directly on your degree anyway. Good luck!
Even if Lit doesn't lead to anything more "fulfilling" or lucrative than philosophy, at least you're doing something you enjoy. People make career changes all the time now, we are no longer a slave to that 50s ideal of working for the same company all your life, so you should just study what makes you happy. You probably won't get a job based directly on your degree anyway. Good luck!
2toke:
Hey! SO, I saw on an old Boards thread that you are a Kevin Smith fan. Not to seem like a schmo, but I just started a View Askew group...so, stop and check it out! Please? 
I had a great Christmas....hope y'all did too.
I got lots of cool stuff inculding bowling shoes, so I'll have to start bowling more frequently now.
It was so nice having a few days off in a row and not having to go to school on those days. We drove up to Saginaw Sunday afternoon and just got back into town last night. It was,...
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I got lots of cool stuff inculding bowling shoes, so I'll have to start bowling more frequently now.
It was so nice having a few days off in a row and not having to go to school on those days. We drove up to Saginaw Sunday afternoon and just got back into town last night. It was,...
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merry:
Yes, I really would, actually. Would you like to come here and sell purses for a couple of weeks?
willdabeast:
sunday after next would work better for me. i'm going out of town this coming sunday.
I've been slacking on that whole updating thing....I'm a bad, bad person, eh.
I finished reading Pride and Prejudice.....good stuff! I liked it a lot. I also read Heart of Darkness and, despite constant Apocalypse Now clips in my head while reading, I enjoyed that too. Now I am on Oliver Twist and I am about a 100 pages in.....apparently I don't hate Dickens. I...
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I finished reading Pride and Prejudice.....good stuff! I liked it a lot. I also read Heart of Darkness and, despite constant Apocalypse Now clips in my head while reading, I enjoyed that too. Now I am on Oliver Twist and I am about a 100 pages in.....apparently I don't hate Dickens. I...
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subrosa:
Happy Holidays from San Francisco!
free2b:
Gosh, where have you been?? You're slow dude
Book one of my between semester reading is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I expected it to be boring and annoying, but damn am I loving it. A friend of mine and I are going to go see the movie next week.
After reading my essay on Hemingway for my Modern Lit class, my teacher took it upon himself to send me a chapter...
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After reading my essay on Hemingway for my Modern Lit class, my teacher took it upon himself to send me a chapter...
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subrosa:
Very much so.
The semester is officially over!!!1 Woot.
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reese:
wow - sounds like 05 treated you well...you are the second person to tell me a happy ending SG love story today!!
makes me wonder all the more why I ever left the site!!
so- yes chicago...moved here for work...and so far so good...it was nice to have a change.
PLEASE let me know when you guys make it here...we'd love to hang
Again- so happy for you on the love thang...
What will happen with grad school?? Will she go with you??
makes me wonder all the more why I ever left the site!!
so- yes chicago...moved here for work...and so far so good...it was nice to have a change.
PLEASE let me know when you guys make it here...we'd love to hang
Again- so happy for you on the love thang...
What will happen with grad school?? Will she go with you??
free2b:
Congrats!!! Feels good doesn't it?? I'm almost there!!!YIPPIE
We went to see Aeon Flux tonight.....it was like a really, really, really bad remake of Logan's Run.....
malice:
Also, a really, really really bad remake of the TV series...I was disappointed 
io:
Of course! The group is for anyone with an appreciation for ballet!
Yesterday I watched A Gentleman's Agreement.....good stuff.
Today I am watching How Green Was My Valley (better known as the film that beat out Citizen Kane for best picture!)....it's decent. John Ford is really good (that's my understatement of the day).
Sunday I am excited because I get to see Woody Allen's Annie Hall at the museum and then go over to the Little Theater...
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Today I am watching How Green Was My Valley (better known as the film that beat out Citizen Kane for best picture!)....it's decent. John Ford is really good (that's my understatement of the day).
Sunday I am excited because I get to see Woody Allen's Annie Hall at the museum and then go over to the Little Theater...
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emtdan:
oh yeah..couldnt afford to move right now even if i wanted to..lol
Hopefully i will just be goin back to my old job, which i had left for better pay and hours, but no biggie..
Hopefully i will just be goin back to my old job, which i had left for better pay and hours, but no biggie..
ilovemikehunt:
my life... in the toilet bowl.
Yesterday I went and got a library card. I haven't had a library card in over ten years. For as much as I read that may sound surprising. But, you know what, I don't really like libraries.....they make you give the books back! I like to own my books, dammit. However, I had heard they have a great selection of movies at the library. I...
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crispy:
Ooof ... the Pats took one on the chin tonight.
I should get a library card.
I should get a library card.
raydanger:
I'm always at the downtown library checking out books that I never read and end up paying late fees.
Lance Hunt wears glasses,
Captain Amazing doesn't wear glasses.
Captain Amazing doesn't wear glasses.
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free2b:
How'd "The Wanting Seed" go over???
syh:
Henry Cabot Henhaus III, poultry playboy, has glasses, a smoking jacket, and no hat.
Super Chicken has a mask, cape, and a feathered hat like a Musketeer.
Super Chicken has a mask, cape, and a feathered hat like a Musketeer.