I think it’s long enough past the actual university school year that I can post something like this. Now, I’ve been marking essays for just three years, but I’ve been writing them for a lot longer, and, thing is, it wasn’t until I started marking papers that I really understood why the ones I’d written [...]

Because why would I ever get tired of rambling on about my opinions instead of doing actual work?

Here’s the thing about me and characters from plays: I don’t care about them. Not really. Now, I love plays, and believe me, when I watch one, if there’s a character who’s particularly cool or hateful or attractive, I’m certainly rooting for them or interested in them or hoping they’ll succeed/fail/die/live. But they don’t follow [...]

Happy Mothers’ Day! If I were more on the ball, today’s blog entry would be about my mom and my grandmothers and what wonderful women they are(/were). But I’m not, so it’s not. Instead, I decided to list some of my favourite games. Now, the trouble with most games is you need stuff to play [...]

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds – William Shakespeare So about two years after my cousin Katie recommended it to me, I finally picked up a copy of Audrey Niffenegger’s novel The Time Traveler’s Wife. It’s an excellent and gripping [...]