Hi! Yes and no. Finally finished up my own classes this summer. Been working on cleaning/weeding/organizing so my move goes easier. Just started re-looking for apts. Tues. I start new teacher orientation. I still am working on figuring out what I want to do with my classes.
Mal: I call you back? Wash: No, Mal. You didn't. Zoe: I take full responsibility, cap.
'Out Of Gas'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
ChiKat - Aug 11, 2007 8:18:51 am PDT #3700 of 28200
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Laga - Aug 11, 2007 8:40:09 am PDT #3701 of 28200
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
My Mom and I used to belong to a Great Books group. One summer we read Nabokov's Lolita and it was surprisingly fun. I think the book's more about America than it is about Humbert the old perv.
Kate P. - Aug 11, 2007 10:21:10 am PDT #3702 of 28200
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
does anyone even remember Darth?
Of course! I miss him. And I've missed you too, Callaluna! Glad to see you here again. :-)
Today is a tax-free holiday in Mass., so I'm going to take advantage of the fact by blowing a huge wad of cash on graphic novels. Fun!
-t - Aug 11, 2007 11:39:50 am PDT #3703 of 28200
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I read Lolita riding Greyhound back and forth between California and New Orleans 9 years ago. I really enjoyed every other Nabokov I've read, but I just didn't see the point of that one.
I've been avoiding Greg Bear for a while now because I read some far future thing that really annoyed me and I think it was by him (but it might not be, I am all the time getting author's confused for no good reason (see Jack L. Chalker and Stephen Brust. how did I get those two mixed up? I have no idea) so I will let go of my possibly completely erroneous anti-Bear agenda and read Queen of Angels just as soon as my library puts it on the hold shelf for me. I t heart the hold shelf.
Hayden - Aug 11, 2007 11:47:23 am PDT #3704 of 28200
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Oh, Lolita cracks me right up. It's not my favorite Nabokov (I mean, seriously, what could come close to Pale Fire?), but I love how funny it is.
-t - Aug 11, 2007 12:06:53 pm PDT #3705 of 28200
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Pale Fire is my gold standard.
I sometimes have trouble recognising humor in literature, I'll readily admit that. Though I did se the funny in Moby Dick, so it's not a complete blind spot.
Emily - Aug 11, 2007 12:31:51 pm PDT #3706 of 28200
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
does anyone even remember Darth?
Out of proportion to my actual interactions with him, I think -- every time I think of North Carolina, I think of Darth and Cybervixen.
Hayden - Aug 11, 2007 12:43:19 pm PDT #3707 of 28200
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I know! I met Darth & C'vixen there on one trip. They were my first Buffistas F2F.
meara - Aug 11, 2007 1:21:48 pm PDT #3708 of 28200
Its amusing that this ended up being my refuge more than his - does anyone even remember Darth? My lovely wonderful friend who lives way too far away now. :(
Yes, of course I remember him! Met him once or twice. See him still on LJ sometimes...
buffysmglover - Aug 11, 2007 2:52:32 pm PDT #3709 of 28200
Tim Cox - Buffy: Anya, that thing you created burst through solid pavement and ate her dog.
Anya (anguished): Oooh, puppy!