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daryl

daryl has written 820 posts for a modest odyssey

The Better Homes Book Sale

Hi, I’m having a book sale for personal friends and such, and this is the post to make everything more convenient. This is definitely of no concern to people who randomly stumble onto the site, but it contains no personal information anyway, so this seems like the most convenient way of doing this. So, here [...]

All change.

Wow, been away for a long time. I see the cobwebs are appearing already. Things have… been okay. I’m alive. Fortunately or unfortunately, I haven’t gotten into any trouble. I exist. Somewhere, some place, some time. That’s about as good as it gets for me, I’m afraid. This semester in school hasn’t gone all that [...]

the tyrant sea

the sea

queen

Brand new year, again.

Some quick updates for a new year. School’s starting next week. I’m attempting to do Asian International Cinema, some Renaissance literature, science fiction, and a multimedia subject. I do have a back-up plan in case I don’t get any one of those, and that’s a post-structuralist psychoanalysis subject. I have been working on a few [...]

X’mas.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

from the basement

Boredom

Yesterday, I finished up a few assorted tasks. Then I watched a few things I was supposed to watch. With all that done, it suddenly hit me. It’s a feeling I haven’t known for a while. Boredom. I still have chores (packing my music library, for instance). I still have things I need to do [...]

German Literature Month: Impressions of Klausen

Last week, I wrote impressions of a book I’d recently read for an event organised by other bloggers. I published it on my other blog, but here it is reproduced for the people who only visit this site. No, it’s not a sterling piece of criticism; more of a casual impressions piece, really. Hope you [...]