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Career as Verbs
Been working on sketching out an idea for a project in the office. Since a lot of my work deals with communicating the ideals of the college to potential students, we often run into the question, “How do we talk about majors?” The whole concept of a major leaves me divided. The “meh” side of…
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Exit Brain, chasing the Squirrel
this is my brain on spring: distracted. inefficient. creative. divergent. unruly. night-owly. *bangs head on desk* Enter the season of “why did I drive to work today just to be this ineffective, when I know I would work better from 6pm-midnight?” It’s going to be a long month of May. lol The Danes apparently know…
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Some of you will be offended…
… but this is an excellent post and you should read it: Joffre The Giant: O Christian, Watch Your Tongue. The issue? Sin is IN ME. My speech raises a rebellious hand against the Almighty when I refuse to love, when I profane God’s name, when lie or cheat or gossip. Not just because I use certain…
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A Hamlet for the looney bin
I love Hamlet. Really, it’s an addiction. I’ll take Hamlet in nearly any form. I prefer good Hamlet, but I’ll even put up with a mediocre Hamlet just to hear those lines come out of the mouths of people up on their feet acting them out. I like film Hamlets, live Hamlets outside in…
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Link: Why Shakespeare always says something new – Telegraph
What Shakespeare always demands, though, is our sympathy, because, to put it simply, he writes about people like us. Offhand, I can think of only one character he wrote – Iago in Othello – that slips through the safety-net of his concern. Shakespeare might not agree with Lear’s sweeping and anarchic assertion that “none does…
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