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9 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 3 replies · +10 points

Just imagine the lyrics to "What I Did for Love" from "A Chorus Line" here, OK? The sweetness and the sorrow, that is today. I love you all.

9 years ago @ The Toast - A note on The Toast · 0 replies · +12 points

A thing of beauty and a joy forever. Thank you, Madam Secretary.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Things Lucy Maud Montg... · 3 replies · +23 points

it me.

See also: Meg Murray's obsessive need for Calvin, which I suspect deeply messed up the way I thought about boys.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Things Lucy Maud Montg... · 0 replies · +39 points

Yup.

I taught myself to knit but I can't sew a straight seam, butcher a hog or generally survive without humanity for more than, oh, ten minutes.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +10 points

Angels in America! I wrote my undergrad thesis on that piece, it has a special place in my heart.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Paintings Of The Tortu... · 1 reply · +12 points

I suspect it's a common experience around here :) If the 80 in your username is your birth year we were probably there around the same time.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Paintings Of The Tortu... · 3 replies · +23 points

I'm in the burbs and I clearly remember being taken on a field trip to the art museum and standing in front of that picture for a long time while they told us about it. It *is* really massive (think: wall sized) and amazing and I still love it. good job field trip planners.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread! · 0 replies · +19 points

I was in voice performance, not theater, but I am really glad I got an English major and then went and got an education degree instead of a music degree like I was thinking about. My friends with voice degrees are mostly doing church gigs and waitressing or nannying. The guys (and it's all guys) who got conducting degrees are doing slightly better.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread! · 0 replies · +9 points

Things I've enjoyed teaching:
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Half-Hanged Mary (poem)
The Odyssey (I know, pretty traditional but one of my favorites)
Woman at Point Zero
Essays of Virgina Woolf

Things I'd like to teach:
Americanah
Land of Love and Drowning
a pile of longreads about things like feminism, the AIDS crisis, race in America, which would fit nicely into the current trend for nonfiction in English class
I feel like there are more, they'll come to me
Ooh! The Penelopiad

9 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread! · 1 reply · +7 points

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy shaped my sense of humor.
The Doomsday Book makes me cry every time.
The entire Little House series is my comfort reading. Nostalgia, Ma Ingalls Thinks You're a Wuss, and the meals, wow
The Time Quartet - all my copies are wrinkled from being read in the bathtub as a teen

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