In five blessed weeks, I will be done with college. In those five weeks, I have an important project to work on. My advisor and I are working together to polish Book 3 in the Clouds Aflame series as my capstone project–the bachelor’s degree version of a thesis. In preparation, my advisor gave me a …
I’ll bet you never thought you’d be getting a Part 2 to my popcorn story. To recap, a simple decision to eat popcorn while watching a YouTube video led to me accidentally breaking my knitting needles and ordering a new set, along with an electric kettle, on Amazon. (Check out my blog history for the …
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone! Personally, I had a great day. Probably the best day I’ve had in months. After the crippling loneliness and boredom of living in the dorms, I came home for Spring Break exactly a week ago, only to immediately come down with some sort of 24-hour flu that morphed into my …
Hey guys! I had a great time at Saturday’s meeting of the Medievalists and Early Modernists of North Texas and Oklahoma. Here’s the paper I presented, edited for length. (The full paper is about twice as long, but all the important parts are here.) One of the most important literary elements is the character known …
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I ate popcorn while watching a YouTube movie theory, and now I’m about to become the proud owner of carbon knitting needles and an electric kettle. Let me explain. Since I don’t own a TV at my dorm, I watch quite a bit of YouTube. I have a favorite channel. It’s a guy who calls …