An Excerpt From a Book I Am Reading

Fleas
Adam
'ad em

A masterpiece isn't it? In a single rhyming couplet of four syllables something is suggested about the ancient and intimate relations between humans and animals, about the great antiquity of small, neglected beings, about the shabby reality of our existence, divine origins not withstanding, and the corruption of this world, inherent even in the Garden of Eden. And there's more: in that rhyme sounds like "Adam, Adam" is there not a lament? Or is it an accusation? Either way, it could be that the fleas in question are us.

Yann Martel: Hilariously pretentious! =DDD

An Update on The Events of Last Night

I am now the proud auntie of a adorable tiny redfaced baby boy named Umar. \o/

An Entry About A (Not) Busy Life!

Hi peeps! As you may know, I recently finished the very last of my uni assignments! For this year! I mean I have exams now but that's okay because a week is plenty of time to study. \o/

So with all this amazing free time I have been spending time READING. Also watching TV. With the TV I have been keeping things vampire flavoured (The Vampire Diaries and Angel! Guys, did you know there is something strangely awesome about watching Angel go all darkside I just don't care on Wolfram and Hart? Because there is! I'm not saying it's okay to let your vampire girlfriend eat a room of evil lawyers but y'know...)

On the literary front I've been reading Yann Martel's What is Stephen Harper Reading? Which is also awesome because it's basically an entire book of book recommendations! Which means I can just read one or two without getting totally caught up and losing more time then I intend to. Also Yann Martel is a very ~deep~ person and is as such completely hilarious. Sometimes he will forget to describe the book he is recommending entirely in favour of giving his opinions on ugly book covers, cliches, and politics (this would be the letter for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicles of a Death Foretold. I have no idea what happens in the book but I now know how Martel feels about dogmatism!)

Another thing I have been up to lately is repeatedly visiting the yorku website to ponder which summer course I want to take. Maybe I should get my required second year poli sci course out of the way? But what if it's as brain-numbing as this year's course was? I am afraid if it is I will lose faith in my major ENTIRELY. I'm already shaky after my current prof's insistence on following a book by a guy who implied the Holocaust was the world's first ever genocide. :/ I'm just saying dude, I was allowed to critique my readings in high school and none of them were that egregiously wrong about the world.

I'll be off to bed now; I'm trying to renormalize my sleep patterns. One of the side effects of spending an entire week frantically writing final assignments is you get used to not going to bed until 3-4 AM and when you're done you keep doing that and forget how to get up before noon.