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There’s a really cool website where you can track all the countries you visited.  Here is what mine looks like:
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visited 32 states (14.2%)
I feel like I have traveled to so many places but it turns out that I’ve only been to 32 countries.  The North America part of this map looks impressive (though I’ve only [...]

I’m really surprised by the various comments about Wuthering Heights.  Seems like most of you hated it which makes me feel better.  I finally finished the novel and it didn’t change my opinion.  Apparently Heathcliff went bonkers and good riddance to him.  Now I’ve got Pride And Prejudice waiting in the wings.
In other news I [...]

I’m probably the only librarian and undergrad English major who never read any classic British novels.  For all my schooling I ran away from those books like they were the plague.  No Dickens, Austin, Brontë sisters.  Now that I’m older I feel like I should at least know what the students in my school are complaining about.  To remedy [...]

People, we have progress.  I have just spent my first official three nights in the new apartment.  Just the fact that I can come home in the evening, unlock my own door, and walk into an empty apartment, has done wonders for my mental health.  Obviously there’s still a lot of work to do (half [...]

I apologize in advance for the ramblings that you are about to read.  My mind is twisted in a hundred different directions and my life is still in such a weird in-between phase that I can never fully relax.  Given that I’m on vacation (and I know most of you will hate me for even [...]