Just got an $80 textbook for $25 and change, including shipping. For my second class, I already owned the book (got it for $5 from a graduating DMDer), and the third doesn’t have a textbook. Still waiting to hear about the fourth class, and I doubt my independent study will have a book.

Spring semester = WIN.

If your performance in a golf game was sub-par, would that mean you did really badly, or really well?

This thought has been brought to you by the Priscilla Has a Lot of Work to Do For This Week But Is Having Difficulty Bringing Herself to Buckle Down and Do It Foundation.

You know how Serenity doesn’t come out on DVD for another 2+ weeks?

Yeah, they’re real. Suggested caption: “My precioussss…”

Full story with my big Shindig report post!

Wow. Check out FictionAlley’s amazing new search engine! (I only wish there were equivalent engines for the fandoms I actually read from!)

And tangentially related, here’s a lovely essay from Barb on Lost, and how to make a character sympathetic. Wordy McWord.

Hmph. Am irritated, as I just realized that I don’t have anything to submit for this semester’s undergraduate juried art show. Last year, I entered Destruction, Desire, and Death, and was chosen as one of 5 students (out of 300+ submissions) to win the Juror’s Award. But the rules say that submitted art work must have been done for a class, and I don’t have anything from the past year that qualifies. I suppose I could spruce up some of the lighting and texturing for “Little Old Lady Land” and submit a few stills? Bah. Why couldn’t I have taken a real Fine Arts course this semester? And here I was all excited about the prospect of submitting some of my recent photography…