Just For Fancy Musings of a self-proclaimed Fancy-Pants.

Four-hundred five and forty spring times past,
When sweet the rushy Avon swell’d its banks
And crimson tulips round the hillsides massed,
Was born The Bard, to whom we still owe thanks
For words so true and beautifully wrought
That though the calendar long years between
Has interposed, those words infuse our thought
And speech to-day with perfume no less keen
Than [...]

So I just applied to grad school — like, five minutes ago. Man, I wish there had been online application forms* when I applied to college the first time 20 years ago. Now all that needs doing is to get my recommendation letters (props to Anne, Chris & Kerry!) and transcripts in the mail. [...]

How is it that I’ve never heard of Neil Gaiman until this last several months??

I’ve watched movie Stardust twice this past week (it’s been running on one of the movie channels), and I love it. While I was watching it last night, I just kept smiling, and the thought occurred to me that I was enjoying it as much as I have ever enjoyed watching such old favorites [...]

It was about 9:30pm last night, and I was sitting there watching Dancing with the Stars and eating garlic-roasted pistachios (totally worth the salmonella risk) when I remembered that my taxes weren’t done yet — or, for that matter, even begun, really — and that I only had one day left.
After contemplating the idea of [...]

I’m feeling extremely pro right now. I’ve got a lot on my plate, so much that it’s getting to that point when none of it is remotely appealing — no matter how important or trivial, difficult or easily accomplished, titillating or dull. I just don’t wanna. Any of it. Meh.

Yes, I know I’ve done it again — it’s been two months (give or take) since I wrote anything here, and it’s not like I didn’t think of something new to post almost every day, sometimes more than once a day, but with one thing and another I either A) genuinely did not have the [...]