my malay is very limited :P. but similarly with french and japanese, one probably knows more than one realises. anyway, books! i came back with TEN books this afternoon. i wanted to get everything i needed before the weekend, so after doing some reference reading at the Bodleian (the best collection of libraries in the world, i think!), i proceeded to hunt down some 3 for 2 book deals at Blackwell's (i needed the Oxford World Classics editions of some books because apparently, Penguin is looked down upon in scholarly works...), and then went to the english faculty library to gather mostly Conrad stuff for the essay. i'm rather tired from just trudging around in the rain carrying what must be 1/10th of my body weight in paper and bindings. you will probably say, eat more sheila, and yes i will, i do eat more when i'm abroad. (probably because of the cold and all that energy that's zapped from studying.) i was VERY skinny over the summer but i've put back the weight i lost. just that it doesn't go where i want it to. i've always wanted to ask my cells what purpose does more fat on the face and butt serve. it just doesn't make biological sense! those places don't need more insulation or cushioning!
Friday, November 12, 2010
booku booku
if people want to read a funny book, by the way, try John Cheever's Bullet Park, about American suburban life. it is the funniest thing i've read in a long time.
i've also settled my options for next term. pulled out of the Henry James class last minute to do late modernist poetry!! very excited. i have been doing novels all term and the thought of doing another term of James novels makes me feel faint. (my dissertation's going to be on him anyway.) i have really really missed poetry... and guess what? Geoffrey Hill is giving his inaugural lecture as Professor of Poetry at the end of this month. i can't believe i'm going to hear one of the greatest living poets speak.
i realize this entry sounds very erratically written. i will try to blog more coherently next time haha.
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lol this entry is kind of all over the place. but its all good. i think bloggers do it all the time. :P
anyway, its meant to be 'buku-buku' but reading out what you wrote makes perfect sense anyway. haha.
and you have a point with the fat going on the wrong place thing. but as girls a lot of time fat doesn't have a very good sense of direction and goes to the most pointless and unflattering places. Be glad that it's not piling up in your abdominal area though (it increases risk of cardiovascular disease!) i think im at high risk. >< OH well.
i think this comment is long enough!
-lauraney
by the way deleted comment was mine. clicked 'publish' twice again. >< I do that way too often...
haha yes thanks for pointing out my mistake! it doesn't feel the same though, buku buku haha. but that is just me clinging to my own language.
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