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Jun. 9th, 2008 12:13 pmRandom quotes of awesome nature:
Justice is a woman with a sword.
In this town we call home, everyone hail to the pumpkin song.
This picture makes me grin everytime I see it: http://downwiththeinternet.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/with-liberty-and-justice-for-all/
Graz was great, though I did not go into a great deal of detail. Mostly, we got there, took a walking tour of the downtown area lead by an elderly woman who was just a little too into saying "unser Steiermark" (our Styria.) There was a prevalence of Dirndls, or, for those of you not hip to the traditional Austrian garb, those outfits the von Trapp family wore as formal wear. They are also about five times as expensive as they need to be, but that's the price of culture, I suppose. There was festival atmosphere from the start of the football tournament, which is of course in Austria and Switzerland this year- like I care.
So, there was no a lot of stuff being done in Graz except wandering around and enjoying some truly awesome food in on-and-off rain.
While in Graz, I was kind of inspired by the dirndls. They are one of those fashions that actually pretty much look good on all women. Fitted bodice, puffed sleeves and full skirt- it's a forgiving look for those putting on weight around the middle, which god knows the Austrians certainly are.
At this very moment, I am sitting in the faculty library for Hinduism and Tibetology, which is nice and quiet and full of books in alphabets I cannot even begin to read. I have a final paper to write for Hinduism that's due on Wednesday, which is probably actually about half done because I had to give a report on it before hand, but since I actually have to write something, I'm slipping into my Wellesley mode of over-researching a topic just so that can slip factoids in that make me sound cooler than I am.
I am attempting to get out of this habit, but honestly, it's making me happy, so I am not going to complain that much. This is one final that I actually want to pass so that I can finish up my major next semester.
Reading: I just go through the 14-part online novel Interviewing Leather, in which a pop culture journalist spends a week in the mind of a B-list supervillainess and finds himself oddly changed by it. '"People who visit into the supers’ world end up becoming permanent residents.” Or they end up dead, but I didn’t figure that needed to be mentioned.' It's... "intriguing" sounds like faint praise, because this was legitimately an interesting and a fun read, but there are indeed aspects of the whole thing that I will be mulling over in my head the next time I read a superhero comic.
I love and enjoy deeply exploring all the metatextual insight that people are publishing these days with regards to superheroes and comics. There's a mind set here that I can either just sit back and bask in, or really investigate, and I think that it's a sign of a really promising genre that I can do either without stressing one aspect over the other.
Justice is a woman with a sword.
In this town we call home, everyone hail to the pumpkin song.
This picture makes me grin everytime I see it: http://downwiththeinternet.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/with-liberty-and-justice-for-all/
Graz was great, though I did not go into a great deal of detail. Mostly, we got there, took a walking tour of the downtown area lead by an elderly woman who was just a little too into saying "unser Steiermark" (our Styria.) There was a prevalence of Dirndls, or, for those of you not hip to the traditional Austrian garb, those outfits the von Trapp family wore as formal wear. They are also about five times as expensive as they need to be, but that's the price of culture, I suppose. There was festival atmosphere from the start of the football tournament, which is of course in Austria and Switzerland this year- like I care.
So, there was no a lot of stuff being done in Graz except wandering around and enjoying some truly awesome food in on-and-off rain.
While in Graz, I was kind of inspired by the dirndls. They are one of those fashions that actually pretty much look good on all women. Fitted bodice, puffed sleeves and full skirt- it's a forgiving look for those putting on weight around the middle, which god knows the Austrians certainly are.
At this very moment, I am sitting in the faculty library for Hinduism and Tibetology, which is nice and quiet and full of books in alphabets I cannot even begin to read. I have a final paper to write for Hinduism that's due on Wednesday, which is probably actually about half done because I had to give a report on it before hand, but since I actually have to write something, I'm slipping into my Wellesley mode of over-researching a topic just so that can slip factoids in that make me sound cooler than I am.
I am attempting to get out of this habit, but honestly, it's making me happy, so I am not going to complain that much. This is one final that I actually want to pass so that I can finish up my major next semester.
Reading: I just go through the 14-part online novel Interviewing Leather, in which a pop culture journalist spends a week in the mind of a B-list supervillainess and finds himself oddly changed by it. '"People who visit into the supers’ world end up becoming permanent residents.” Or they end up dead, but I didn’t figure that needed to be mentioned.' It's... "intriguing" sounds like faint praise, because this was legitimately an interesting and a fun read, but there are indeed aspects of the whole thing that I will be mulling over in my head the next time I read a superhero comic.
I love and enjoy deeply exploring all the metatextual insight that people are publishing these days with regards to superheroes and comics. There's a mind set here that I can either just sit back and bask in, or really investigate, and I think that it's a sign of a really promising genre that I can do either without stressing one aspect over the other.
