Yn a worlde of systematic crueltye, be outrageouslye compassionate. Yn a worlde of pettye meanness, be defiantlye delightful.

Why ys iambique pentameter so dramatique? By cause yt ys usuallye yn tens

“Yeah, Dunkin changed their name. Instead of Dunkin’s Donuts it’s just Dunkin Donuts.” ... “Oh, wait. That wasn’t right...” -Elise Haynes

“I’ve literally been smacking shoes on walls all my life!” -Elise Haynes

Me: “I think my academic ability is mostly fueled by jellybeans at this point.” Elise Haynes: “I have eaten almost two pounds of skittles.” Yes, we’re doing very well this semester.

“So, I have a favorite cow... Well, a favorite group of cows... And a favorite singular cow.” -Katherine Walker

I have thrown away the unread New Yorkers that were in a pile on the floor and which you were probably saving for absolutely no reason Forgive me they were from 2015 so dusty and so old

Over at the New Yorker, the comma queen herself, Mary Norris, discusses the pleasures of Greek and learning a different alphabet: "As Virginia Woolf suggests in her remarks on Aeschylus, knowing Greek sometimes takes a leap of intuition." ἄγετε! newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

“It’s so weird! I can feel my whole nostril!” -Elise Haynes upon taking out her nose ring

Deciding which books to take to McKay’s at the end of a semester...

The little violets’ heads bowed on their stems, The pre-dawn gossamers, all dew and scrim And star-lace, it was more through them I felt the beating of the huge time-wound We lived inside.

William Carlos Williams + ancient Greek tragedy = pure genius.

Me: applies sunscreen poorly and gets rather sunburned at the pool Annabelle Jones: “Oh, your legs look like crab legs... you know, cause they’re only red on one side... But hey, the backs of your arms look fantastic!”

A lovely thread about the difficult joys of classical (Greek) translation...

Me: Listening to and trying to repeat my French vocab words. Failing horribly. Annabelle Jones: Oh so kindly pulls up the Friends clip where Joey’s trying to learn French: “This is how you sound right now...” I’m definitely ready for this semester.

I panicked yesterday because I thought I’d somehow failed a class I audited. Turns out, a U is the audit equivalent of a P and does not, in fact, stand for unsatisfactory like it did on elementary school report cards.

Putting that English major to good use today

Thesis officially submitted, defended, and approved by feline reviewer