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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
1:39 pm	Sweden/Romania/Turkeys I have returned from Sweden, which was a short but welcome break from my life in Romania. I went to visit a Swede who had been here in Cluj last spring and it turned out being a great trip back into American college town-style life. For real. Sweden is the most American feeling place I've ever been to that's not America or Canada. Not in that big shopping malls, gunracks, and giant houses way. It was more intangible than that. Little things like the heavy immigrant presence, the indie kids, the queer life, the suburban style living and interest in home decoration; these all gave a strangely familiar feeling to the place. This was not unwelcome. I'm sure that a lot of people will debate me and talk about god awful America is and how I have no business comparing a small European country with a social conscience to that monstrosity...but I really felt it. The other possibility might be that because it felt soooooo different from the Europe that I have thus far experienced I was at a loss to compare it with anything else. Maybe in hindsight I would say Canada. Sweden is like Canada. I still think I like Canada better, mostly because of its unwieldy size, but Sweden was still cool. Most of time was spent hanging out at my friend's apartment with a rotating cast of Swedish hipsters. There was also a lot of shopping in ethnic groceries. I was amazed at what I could find. Loose mate!! Farinha de mandioca!! Huge loaves of Iraqi pita. This alone made the trip worth while. We also drank in a speakeasy. They still have speakeasies in Sweden!!! This one was cool because we had been a some queer rock club night and when we arrived at the speakeasy most of the people there had also been at the club. I also went to Ladyfest. I hadn't been to one of those since college. I liked the one in Sweden better, because it was bit less Western MA political and a bit more GOLD THEMED. Since returning to Romania I have been much happier, even though I've been involved in some moderate to high level drama and have been planning a Thanksgiving dinner for 70+ people...mostly Peace Corps Volunteers. I guess that's what trips to places that remind you of your college years can do for you. Current Mood: chipper Current Music: silence (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 6th, 2006
5:05 pm	Hormones on my Coat It was a normal afternoon, sitting around in the my living room having some tea after a busy morning. A friend had stopped in and we were chatting. The gossip ground to a halt. "What is your cat doing?" he asked. I look at the couch and see him settling into the coats and backpack that had been laid there earlier. "Oh I think he's just laying down." "No, no, I think he's peeing." "Oh jeez." I proceed to pick him up and sure enough, he was peeing. On my coat. And my backpack. And my scarf. The age of terror has begun. I knew that getting a male cat would lead to this type of thing eventually, I just didn't know that it would happen so soon. I didn't know that it would happen in broad daylight when I could see him. Above all, I didn't know that it would happen on my coat, an item I have to wear every day to prevent from dying on contact in the frigid Transylvanian autumn. Suffice it to say I am really unhappy with this. I am planning a glamorous long weekend jaunt to Scandinavia this weekend and I do not want to leave my items free for the soiling. I think I might just shut him up in the kitchen the whole time and make sure that the cat sitter respects this policy. I don't even think he's old enough to get fixed yet, so this is going to be a long, nasty smelling couple of months. In other news it got VERY cold in Europe over the last week, though it has warmed a bit in the last few days. We had our first snow on Thursday. It's the earliest first snow I can remember. Day of the Dead went very nicely, as did the pilgrimage to Deva, though both events were slightly hampered by the ridiculous cold. I'm leaving the country for a few days, which exites me more than you can possibly imagine. That's really about all. Current Mood: Stinky (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
3:04 pm	Return to the Liv-journal-ing on the Day of the Dead I know that I promised to write more the last time that I wrote a random post sometime in September and then disappeared for another few months. I know that people have probably lost interest in my Transylvanian hijinks as much as I have. I know that the pun in my title was just dreadful and should get me shot.....BUT.....I still had to to do it. All these months without exhibiting myself to the world have made me feel dreadfully unexposed, and, to reference Susan Powter for the second time in the history of this blog, I had to stop the insanity!!!! So here's a brief runthrough of the major life events in the last several months: I HAVE: Fallen desparately into unrequited love. Ceased to be my party animal self. Learned to make my own pita bread. Dressed as the former first lady, Prima Tovarăşa Elena Ceauşescu. Lost contact with some good friends. Been nervous about the future a lot. Gone hiking to my secret castle. Fallen in love with a Japanese restaurant. Started to run an English language film club. Gotten involved in radio again. Acquired an enormous yet sweet-tempered cat. Learned to make spanakopita. Shaved off my goatee. Bought a plane ticket to Sweden. Been caught in a ridiculous lie. Fixed a washing machine all by myself. Attempted to upload all of my old burned CDs onto my computer. Thrown a ridiculous sendoff for a good friend. I HAVE NOT: Made any real new friends. Had sex with anyone. Gone out to any gay events with any frequency. Stopped being a ridiculous hypochondriac. Made any concrete plans for next year when I am finished with this job. Kept up on the housework. Left the city of Cluj (well the immediate 15k radius). Advanced my knowledge of Hungarian or Romanian at all. Told the unrequited love that he is my unrequited love. Quit smoking. Lost weight. Really put myself into my work....seeing as it will be over in less than a year. Kept up with the news like I used to. Written anything particularly interesting. Died. Been to the hospital (thinking positively now). Eaten Indian food. Talked to the vast majority of my friends from home. There's the basic rundown. Life has been moving in other directions lately. As mentioned above, I've been getting into radio again. I also have bitten the bullet and decided to take my GREs as soon as possible so that I can apply to some grad school programs in the spring. I also have looked at jobs in other glamorous foreign locations, though I'm sure that I will NEVER learn how to distill my own plum based spirits or smoke my own side of pork fat as well as I have here. I promise to keep this in better working order for my Samhain resolution. (I don't really make Samhain resolutions...that's MUCH too Wicca for me). Asta e........... Current Mood: determined Current Music: F-in' Grace Jones.....I'm not that glum yet. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 8th, 2006
7:31 pm	Return to the Internets Lord it's been awhile. Rather than recapping everyone on what has gone on in the last few months (TIFF, America, parents, boredom), we may as well just start from today. I don't know how long I'll be keeping up with LJ but I'll definitely move on to something more glamorous for blogging if I do stop. So here goes: Today was a rough day. The Commodore Ceausescu kept me up all night playing with his little feather boa in bed. That is so much less exotic than it sounds. The night gained further crappy night points when he found a cardboard box in the corner of the room that was decidedly not his litter box and decided to pee in it. I tried my best to just wake up for the day at that point but I was so tired that I fell back asleep, heating the water for far too long and scalding myself in the shower. After this I began to eat my breakfast, which when my back was turned the Commodore managed to step in and sully. My plans were slipping out of my hands and I began to feel a breakdown coming on. The chest pains arrived and I started to freak out, almost considered going to the doctor but the last times such a thing has happened I have been told that it was mostly nerve and anxiety related and encouraged to take Zoloft..the scariest of today's brain numbing drugs. This just makes me feel like a silly hypochondriac....but in my opinion better safe than sorry. Instead I decided to flee the house and leave The Commodore to fend for himself. He gave me a good bye lunge and claw and I took that as a good sign that I was making a good decision. I traveled by bus to block suburubia, where, as I am currently house sitting for a friend, I had access to a computer with internet. I bought the fixings for a tuna salad sandwich, spent several hours online reading book reviews, then watched both 40 Year Old Virgin AND Mean Girls and took a nap. Which kinda means I wasted a day but also kinda means that I averted a panic/heart attack and was able to decide to start writing in this old thing again. So that is that. I feel moderately rejuvenated and ready to return to my home. Hopefully the kitten will forgive me for fleeing his presence for a day. Once the school year starts this will happen more and more though. Comment and welcome me back etc. Hope to record more exciting and or good news as the month progresses. Current Mood: still kinda hypochondriac Current Music: none (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 11th, 2006
4:38 pm	Slacking Well hello all. Lord its been awhile. Spring has arrived in Transylvania, and life has become a bit more interesting and fun. At least we can go on hikes when things get ugly. I've been reading a lot and teaching a lot and preparing, unsuccessfully, to give final exams. I have three big exams to administer next Thursday and lord knows I'm not ready yet. I was planning on doing it today, but last night was a big play and then afterwards I got drunk with Elfin Csaba and Emoke the Hot. This week are the Harag Gyorgy Emleknapok (Harag Gyorgy Memorial Days), which is a huge Hungarian theater festival here. Seeing as about 40 % of my friends are involved in Hungarian theater in some way, I've been busy. The play itself was great. It was called Pantagruel's Cousin and it was done without any text. Lots of precision pantomiming and such. Highly entertaining but not necessarily very deep. The house was FULL though. I was outside the theater waiting to get in an it amazed me that so many people that I know were there. I felt like a Transylvanian theater scene allstar. The last few weeks have been really wonderful with the spring and all. Cluj is full of lilac trees and everywhere you walk it smells like lilacs. Spring weather here feels like early summer weather back home, and that has been excellent too. Lots of people are clearly in the mood for fun AND the terase are open again. Terase are terrace bars and the city is full of them. THere is NOTHING more fun than hanging out a terasa all day and shooting the shit. You can get tan with minimal work. It's amazing. Teaching has been fun lately as well. The big final exam is upon us and I'm afraid that the students won't be prepared enough, so this weekend I'm kinda dedicated to getting all of the materials finalized so I can do some coaching on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. That was originally today's plan, but the sleeping in combined with the random conversing with the ex-bf who is in Brazil meant that most of today was shot in that sense. Ex seems to be doing well. I really miss Brazil a lot. I'm planning my trip home for July, which is cool but kinda stressful, because I'm doing a lot of anticipating now and that kinda takes my mind away from the world around me, which is none to good, because I have a lot to do currently. I promise to update more. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
7:08 pm	Vacation Week So my vacation week continues. I saw my brother off on Monday night after a day poking around the UniversT sporting and depression complex. His girlfriend took some gnarly pictures. The week has been OK. Nothing really interesting but better than usual. I now have a computer and that makes my life mcuh much easier. I went to see Csárdáskiralynõ at the Hungarian Opera on Tuesday. This is apparently the most popular Hungarian operetta, and let me tell you. SO ENTERTAINING!!!! I'm really such a fag soemtimes. I found myself completely reeling with entertainment from this ridiculous operetta about the "Queen of Csardas" and her attempts at hiding her torrid dancehall performing past. It was so great. I also got the chance to hang out with Elfin Csaba at the Opera house bar which is one of my favorite things to do. All in all it was a really good time. So yeah....week two of vacation has entailed minimal leaving Cluj, but at the same time...its been a blast. So much so that I'm really not looking forward to work on Monday. (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 16th, 2006
8:51 pm	Kellemes Husveti Unnepeket It is Easter. My brother and his girlfriend have been in Romania for almost a week now. I've had a wonderful time despite the fact that, as my landlord joked, "The government decided to sell our spring." Today we went to hours of Unitarian church and then made our own Easter dinner featuring: Chakhokbili (chicken stew), mustard greens, mamaliga, salata de vinete, green salad, and a big rice pie. Tastiness. I haven't been updating much at all this month. That may be because my life actually feels like its busy and that I am being productive and above all, that I am happy again. Things are not going so well with the boy, but that doesn't seem to matter. I will try to update with more regularity. Until then Happy Easter (both Orthodox and Western). Current Mood: resurrected (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
10:01 pm	Note the change in map. create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands I can now add Slovakia and Austria to my map of places I've been to. Woohoo!!! I spent the last week or so in the presence of my favorite former roommate to have a doctorate. We rocked the Budapest last weekend, rolled the Cluj for the beginning of last week, and then sightsaw the shit out of Bratislava and Vienna over the most recent weekend. This is why there is an absence of update. Overrall highlights. * Eating in my favorite Turkish dives in Budapest: Star Kebap and Sahara. * Budapest Applied Arts Museum. * Actually conversing in Hungarian finally. * Bar-hopping in Cluj two nights in a row. * Flirting with hot Spaniard at the Gellert bath. * Receiving my very own copy of America the Book. * Enchiladas with CORN TORTILLAS and BLACK BEANS(brought by Dr. V herself.) * Seeing Visegrad and Esztergom from the train window on the way to Bratislava. Realizing that not all of Hungary is flat. * Contrary to the prior hating, Bratislava being awesome. * Staying at the VUZ (Welding Research Institute) in Bratislava...www.vuz.sk, home of the "Swedish table," the most welder appropriate breakfast buffet ever seen (goulash, potato salad, greek salad, wieners, jelly roll slices were featured among many others...) * The Slovak National Museum's music exhibits. (Alpenhorns!!!!!!!!!!!!!) * 80s pop a plenty on the bus rides. * Seeing lots of attractive artsy young man sunning themselves at the Museumsquartier in Vienna. * Eating a krapfen in Vienna. * The market in Vienna. * Vienna. Overrall it was an intensely busy but intensely awesome week on the road. It was nice to see a friend from home, and to see more of the world. I will be hosting my brother and his girlfriend in about a week, so I'm preparing for that as well. Spring is here though, as the the young artsy men a-sunning announced, and I couldn't be happier. Current Mood: gleeful. Current Music: Laura Branigan- Self Control. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, March 20th, 2006
11:25 pm	Stuffed Tomato Owls. I know this is risking turning my LJ into a recipe blog but...... In the textbook that I use for my Intermediate class they had to read a recipe today. The recipe was for Stuffed Tomato Owls. They were tomato halves stuffed with tuna and mayonnaise with little tomato triantles and olive slices on top arranged to look like an owl's face. Is this a British thing? If so.....awesome. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
3:13 pm	Ready for Vacation I'm heading to Budapest on Thursday and am ever so pleased about this. Dr. Vija, my favorite former roommate is meeting me and we are launching an Eastern European adventure from there. Other stops are Bratislava, Prague (for her), other parts of Hungary, and of Cluj itself. In other news I went hiking at Turda Gorge yesterday, which was awesome. BF borrowed a Dacia truck with major gear shifting problems and we basically 4-wheeled from Turda through the countryside to get to the gorge. The gorge was beautiful, even though it was kind of a grey day. The weekend before yesterday was spent in mega-party mode.Friday night got to the point where I arm wrestled girls at a bar opening and then longed back in an armchair and serenaded everyone with bossa nova standards. All of this partying also has meant that I went to bed at 7:30 on Thursday, 5:45 on Friday, and 3:00 on Saturday. This has hopelessly thrown off my sleep schedule and I have been overtired and full of insomnia since then. Last night I couldn't fall asleep until 4:30, even though I had spent the day hiking and was super tired overrall. So yeah....maybe if I can get back into proper sleep world I will be ready for my trip on Thursday. If not, there's always the bus. Current Mood: tired Current Music: Blowing Me Up with Her Love by J.C. Chasez (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 16th, 2006
3:51 pm	Farsang Photos Killer Originally uploaded by leggab. So if you thought that I made up all that Farsang business, here are the pictures. www.flickr.com/photos/leggab. Sorry that they are so blurry. My carea is all messed up. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
7:20 pm	A recipe A recipe as dictated by my BI-A Class Stuffed Lamb Part 1 1. Get a young lamb. 2. Kill it. 3. Pour yourself a glass of PLUM palinka. Drink this. 4. Cut the leg off the lamb. 5. Cut a big hole in the leg. Not into pieces. Just a big hole. Part 2 1. Hard boil ten eggs. 2. Get some salad, flour, one or two potatoes that are small, onion, pepper, oil, and a cup of wine...red wine. 3. Mix this together. Use this thing (gesture for meat grinder). 4. Put this all in the hole. Do this (gesture for sewing). Part 3 1. Put this in a big pot. Bake it for 1 hour. No, more than 1 hour. Some hours. 2. Salt it with parsley. 3. Oh my God we forgot the salt. Add salt to it too. 4. Pour yourself a glass of PLUM palinka. Drink this. This is apparently an Easter specialty. Any recipe where instructions include home butchering of the animal and drinking hard liquor are alright by me. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 13th, 2006
8:52 pm	Sült Török Oh wow....before I forget. Second best student quote of the year (from the same one who said, "I have Japanese family," and slanted her eyes.) We're looking at a menu from the U.S. and I'm having them say what's on it. The student sees "Roast Turkey" and says, "Sült Török," which would mean, "Roast Turk." Wow. We laughed about that for awhile. To all of my Turkish friends,I'm truly sorry. In the words of Will Ferrell's Alex Trebek, "What did I say about the ethnic slurs?!" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
8:34 pm	Spring on the way, friends on the way, yay..... Yesterday was the first really springy springy day in awhile (of course it snowed at night but most of that has melted by now.) Me and the BF went for a walk in the woods just out of the city. While I am well aware of the fact that Cluj is surrounded by hills and woods (you can even see them from the square at the very center of town,) I never really was sure about accessing these. This is why its good to have local boyfriends who know these things. We took a tram (what Americans refer to as a trolley....here a trolley means an electric bus) to the end of Manastur, possibly the dreariest of block neighborhoods and then just started walking. Eventually you get to this area full of meadows and hills and trees and more meadows etc. and you really do feel like you're out of the city. I was extremely happy. These little snowdrops were sprouting up wherever the snow had melted and it smelt all damp and spring-like. I returned to the city covered in mud and super duper happy. Otherwise the weekend was pretty normal. A lot of PC people who I had not met were in town to visit the Cluj PC so I met them and we went to the Turda Salt Mine on Saturday....which once again, awesome!!! I never knew I'd be the kind of person who feels like all of his woes are alleviated by spending some time in a 400 meter hole in the ground that echoes a lot. Other American found a place in France and is leaving. This makes me a little bit sad. We haven't seen each other as often as we used to but he's still one of my best friends here AND he's the other overweight gay American in Cluj. Now I'll be the only one. Teaching has gone well....though its a bit sparse on the ground. The Hungarian National Holiday (HNH)is on Wednesday, so we will not have class or anything. I don't know if I'm really happy to have so much class cancelled or a little bit peeved. All of this does mean more time for Project Spring Cleaning to continue. Today a I did Subproject Mop the Kitchen and tonight its Subproject Bleach the Tablecoth. Current Mood: Spunky (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 9th, 2006
3:36 pm	Belga and Apolodor. I'm so in love with Hungarian rap right now. And by Hungarian rap I mean Belga. I burned a Belga CD from my friend on Monday and I've listened to it all week. The best is that there is a 3 part rap epic about Fehér Ló Fia....the son of the white horse...its a Hungarian fairy tale. It would be like making an awesome rap epic about the Brave Little Tailor...which is kinda my new goal now. From the same friend I got a CD of Ada Milea who is a Romanian singer who made a musical version of a children's book called Apolodor. Apolodor is a about a little penguin named Apolodor who lives at the circus in Bucharest and sings in the choir. However, he is very very sad because he misses his family back in Labrador. He sings, "Mi-e dor, mi-e dor, de fratii mei in Labrador" (I miss, I miss, my brothers in Labrador.) It's really very good. I also made pizza with my students last night. Great fun was had by all. That is all. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
10:14 am	Lord It's Been Awhile I'm updating with much less regularity than I had in the past. This could mean that I actually have a life. The weekend was interesting. I kinda solidified things with the Semi-Boyfriend, so we may have to call him the Boyfriend now. I also went to Farsang in Torocko, which was ridiculous, though not as ridiculous as I had hoped. The big bus full of Unitarians arrived just in time for the start of the procession. This procession featured men in folk costume with shoe polish moustaches cracking horsewhips, which was far sexier than it should have been. The men were followed by a procession of pairs of boys dressed in more folk costume, one as a woman, one as a man. Don't get me started. This was followed by a donkey cart with a small coffin on it. This was apparently the "Pie Man." The Pie Man was followed by drag mourners who wept loudly and had logs chained to their ankles. The whole procession was surrounded by boys dressed as devils that would chase you and smear black paint on your face and a boy in a white sheet that said "Killer" on the back who did the same, also boys in clown suits were doing the same but with red paint. So I guess it could have been described as surreal. Unfortunately, other than the procession there was wasn't much else to do. We drank hard liquor out of soda bottles, ate chicken legs, mici, and huge wedges of cake, and listened to "Harmos kiralylany (Dream Queen)," everybody's favorite Hungarian soft rock ballad, blared over a PA system. The funeral procession then returned to the center of the village where a man dressed like a minister with sunglasses read a joke eulogy for about 45 minutes. During this eulogy I was treated to Pityu (the inexplicable boy who lives in the dorm with my students though I'm not sure if he's even studying at all) drunkenly complaining. A taste: "This it's nothing!! It's theater!!! I like the life real!!! We have beautiful mountain, nice people, tradition, and it's nothing!!! It is like communism. We are thinking like communism. We are all communisms!!!!" "We are all communisms." is my quote of the month by the way. After the lenghty "communism" eulogy, the devils, "Killer," and clowns proceeded to hack the coffin to bits with hoes. Then there was some more cracking of horsewhips and off we went to the Culture House for some rousing folk dancing performances by ten year olds. This is Transylvania. The rest of the weekend was pretty normal: dinner with expats, boozing at Music Pub, kissing the BF, watching Twin Peaks with JI. Work this week promises to be weird as well. Yesterday I was informed that I was going to be on the Review Board for a scholarship to send ministers to a seminary in the U.S. (responsible for determining English language proficiency). It was odd. I was sitting at the big conference table with abunch of middle aged chruch officials in suits, smokers' coughing away and basically determining whether or not people who are older and more experienced than me get to leave the country or not. Sometimes this job's mix of high responsibility and low monitoring seems so weird to me. In addition to the "We are all communisms" quote there are some other good ones from weekend. In conclusion. 1. Elfin Csaba "You look like Angelica Huston. Are you a lesbian?" Mandy from Ploiesti "Well I've dipped into that." 2. Jewish Istvan "I think for the spring I will get an SS leather coat and hat set." 3. Mandy from Ploiesti "Are you familiar with the expression Meat Curtains?" 4. Students in class this morning (in a restaurant role play) "I'm sorry, we only have crocodile and frog meat." "Fine, I'll have the frog....with potatoes." 5. Student at Farsang "It's raining men." Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: It's Raining Men (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
2:58 pm	Martisor and the Pie Man Yesterday was Marţişor, the most confusing of Romanian holidays to me. To celebrate the arrival of the month of March, men are supposed to give women tacky little charm necklaces on twisted red and white thread to pin onto themselves. I believe its a fertility custom or simply reminder that spring is on the way, which is good, as its been snowing for the last four days. The nice thing with the marţişoare (what you call the little necklaces) is that it kinda gives people a chance to have some art of their own. A lot of the local artists make marţişoare and sell them, and these can be pretty cool. I bought a few from my friend Bianca and distributed them to various Romanian women who I know. Apparently we have to reprise the whole thing on March 8, which is International Womens Day. Hungarians dont really do Marţişor, so I will have to make a big deal of it on the 8th. In other holiday related news, it is now Farsang season. Farsang is Carnival, and my students and I are going to Torocko (where oxen pull cars out of the frozen stream) on Saturday. I asked them what we do to celebrate Farsang. The answer I got was amazing. After some deep discussing, they agreed that they build a "Pie Man," and bury him in a coffin. You can't imagine how excited I was about the prospect of seeing a giant man-sized/shaped pie in a coffin surrounded by people in folk costume. It kinda made my whole time in Romania just thinking about it. I then realized that they did not mean "Pie," they meant "straw." The word for straw in Romanian sounds like pie, and because they were didn't know the word in English, they just translated it from Hungarian into Romanian. I was SOOOOOOO disappointed. I'll still be going mind you, but it just won't be the same. Quote of the last few days from the semi-boyfriend. "It's hard being Hungarian because you have to hate so many people." Current Mood: moderately disappointed Current Music: When the Pie Man comes to Town (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 26th, 2006
6:31 am	Devil Fruits You Are 54% Evil You are evil, but you haven't yet mastered the dark side. Fear not though - you are on your way to world domination. How Evil Are You? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 25th, 2006
2:37 pm	Romania Quote of the Week. From Peace Corps Liz's friend Rares. "Here we eat three meals a day and the second one should be fried." Poetry, man. Current Mood: greasy Current Music: sizzling oil. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
3:08 pm	A man, a plan, a canal: Transylvania. A sampler of things written on my blackboard after teaching my Advanced Seminar class yesterday: Sheridan Le Fanu, Frankenstein (1819), Goth, the Brontes, Germinal, Emily Gerard (1888), Djarum, missile, missal, wreak havoc, mayhem. I feel like such a teacher all of a sudden with the random writing of one word/title on the board. 10 points if you can guess what book we're doing. (3 Comments |Comment on this)