Accomplishments

I feel good. I've finished adding the samples to my portfolio, needing only to put in the labels and some revised documents and letters of recommendation; I've finally watched X-Men in its entirety; and, well, I just feel good about my life.

Why are English books made so badly?

From Slate

Bargain-Basement Literature
Why are English books made so badly?
By Christopher Caldwell
Posted Friday, March 7, 2003, at 11:24 AM PT

Over the past few weeks, my wife and I have been turning our attic into a library. I've been arranging all our beautiful books by subject and alphabetizing them. The books gleam. The new-built shelves gleam. The hardwood floors gleam. And as we move in the ratty carpets and comfy chairs, the room where I'm writing this is turning into a place I've always dreamed of.

With one exception: The books from England—and only the books from England—are falling to pieces. The unread American books in our collection, along with those from Germany and France and Italy and Mexico, still look brand-new. But even a 4-year-old English hardback has warped covers, a binding that snaps like a saltine when you open it, and pages so brittle and brown that the act of pulling it from the shelf leaves a little confetti pile of paper chips on the floor. It's not just that these English books are junky (aesthetically); it's that they're often unreadable (logistically). They're dying.

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[HONOURS] Atwood's Surfacing

Here's the last piece of my Honours thesis! Now all that there is to do is the tinkering. :-)

D. Atwood’s Surfacing

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