[NON BLOG] Another Daily Update
May. 26th, 2004 01:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI had my Milton class again this afternoon, and followed it up with drinks with the fellow student I'll be presenting with this Thursday. The class is going well, I think, and I enjoyed the camaraderie at the Grad Club. It's funny that it's only now, in my final year of university, that I'm beginning to enjoy the university experience. But then, as Shakespear's Sister sang,
Then followed a yard sale--a student in the PhD program was selling off some of her stuff, household utensils, books, and the like. I bought some cutlery, some pots and pans, a set of camping dishes, a nice set of wooden salad dishes and scoops, a clock-radio, and a nice unvarnished wood IKEA bookshelf. (Now, if I can get a screwdriver. Or whatever I need to put it together.) Oh, I also bought books: James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, George Orwell's Coming Up for Air, Jeanette Winterson's GUT Symmetries, John Knowles' A Separate Peace, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, Albert Camus' The Outsider, and Carolyne Larrington's translation of the Poetic Edda. Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin came as a final gift. That was fun.
I've found two things of note on the Internet, incidentally. First, via The Glory of Carniola is a link to The Years of Entanglement: Yugoslavia 1981-1990, a photo essay by Dushan Drakulich documenting the final decade of Yugoslavia's existence in images. It's a nice collection, if depressing. Second,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alexpgp has an excellent account of the launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying an Intelsat satellite into Earth orbit from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakstan, with pictures. This posting is the culmination of a series of fascinating posts he's made regarding his participation in the Russian commercial space program. Go, read.
la la la life is a strange thing
just when you think you learned how to use it
it's gone
Then followed a yard sale--a student in the PhD program was selling off some of her stuff, household utensils, books, and the like. I bought some cutlery, some pots and pans, a set of camping dishes, a nice set of wooden salad dishes and scoops, a clock-radio, and a nice unvarnished wood IKEA bookshelf. (Now, if I can get a screwdriver. Or whatever I need to put it together.) Oh, I also bought books: James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, George Orwell's Coming Up for Air, Jeanette Winterson's GUT Symmetries, John Knowles' A Separate Peace, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, Albert Camus' The Outsider, and Carolyne Larrington's translation of the Poetic Edda. Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin came as a final gift. That was fun.
I've found two things of note on the Internet, incidentally. First, via The Glory of Carniola is a link to The Years of Entanglement: Yugoslavia 1981-1990, a photo essay by Dushan Drakulich documenting the final decade of Yugoslavia's existence in images. It's a nice collection, if depressing. Second,
alexpgp has an excellent account of the launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying an Intelsat satellite into Earth orbit from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakstan, with pictures. This posting is the culmination of a series of fascinating posts he's made regarding his participation in the Russian commercial space program. Go, read.
