a highway of diamonds with nobody on it

Hey people in the computer. Sorry for the unexpected hiatus--I bumped into exams and then grad school interviews and then an undergrad conference, and anyway I was on spring break and I didn't take my computer, so. But I'm back at school now, just got in. Term doesn't start for a few days, and the Boy won't get in till Monday, so I'm here by myself being quiet. Downloading Supernatural right now, because I missed it on Thursday, and I think I have some Netflixed Buffy in my mailbox that I will maybe go for later.

I presented at the St. Francis University Conference of English Language and Literature in Joliet, IL this morning, gave my paper on Desdemona and linguistic romance and non-visual utopia that I made last fall. I think I forget, sometimes, that I'm not supposed to know how to do everything all at once. In my head, everyone else there were going to be grad students or just as good as, and I was going to look like a fool. But it was just undergrads, and I should know by know that my work is close to the top of the undergraduate continuum. In terms of my age and a peers, I really do know what I'm doing. And I can give a hell of a performance when I want to--I'm theater-trained, and I can real aloud like a crazy thing, power springing from the calves and the hips up through the rib cage in to breath.

I'm terribly tired, been running around a bit. Sleep in my own bed tonight, watch my show, read some Paradise Lost. Be silent for a while, just listen to the quiet things. Maybe write.

And catch up with fandom yay!