the TBR tag

Well met, fellow wayfarers! It's been a bit. I'm immersed in semester six of college -- in which I have traveled to two classics conferences (and presented a paper at one), started rereading Piranesi, begun planning my senior thesis, started running semi-consistently, written a couple of poems, taken two one-credit seminars, drunk mulled wine around…

flotsam & jetsam 1/24

Hello hello! I am headed back to school this weekend (in a snowstorm and negative temperatures) for what is quite possibly the most fun and crazy semester to date: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Logic three-credit classes + four one credit seminars + a shooting class + two one-week seminars + a Latin reading group +…

2023 books & music :)

It's December 20 and I've read 95 books this year and I was going to wait to do this tag until I hit 100, but I like writing about books so I'm going to do it now. I hope I will make it to 100 by midnight on December 31; I'm currently reading Wise Blood…

canonical

I used to scorn the idea of needing to read certain books simply because they were "good" or enduring or otherwise had made it onto someone's list of classics. Then I went to college and realized I was being silly and decided I should probably read them. Sometime since then, "should" has turned into "really…

I should be writing my papers right now

I am always seized with a sudden desire to blog when I have a lot of homework. Funny how that works, eh? And then I want to spend several hours having a crisis about why I want to share about my life, and what the purpose of doing so is, and if I am oversharing…

written on a cold night, 10.8.23

When I step with bare feet on the tile floor of my attic bathroom, cold is the name I give the feeling, the name I have been taught for it. Hot steam from my shower shudders in the autumn air. My hair will freeze on the walk to the library after this, through the October…

on identity.

I read Joan Didion's On Keeping a Notebook a few weeks ago. Yesterday I started keeping a notebook (I will probably write about this more sometime, since I have many thoughts) -- I don't think I will be using it much like she did, but it reminded me of hers, and how she wanted to…

real time, real tears: sophomore summer

"Did you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your denomination?" Well, folks. It's been a year since I wrote about my freshman year. What's changed? I'm twenty now. I've presented a paper at an academic conference. I've survived my fourth finals week without dying. I've been to Seattle. I'm still me. I wrote…

books that have shaped me

I read a lot, and I have a lot of favorite books, and another list of books that I think are "objectively" (whatever that means) the best, and several other lists of books I consider to be good on various scales and for various reasons. But this is a list I've never made before, and…

what is a woman fit for?

Women have minds and souls as well as just hearts, and they've got ambition and talent as well as just beauty. And I'm sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for. I'm so sick of it! But – I'm so lonely. Jo March, Greta Gerwig's Little Women (2019) marriage. All…