Elaby is solar-powered

I'm getting pretty close to being done on my researchywork (or as done as I can get this summer). I just need to hear back from my advisor type about a question that I had.

I was going to work on revising a couple of papers for submission to two different contests (one with a cash prize and one with a gift certificate type prize and PUBLICATION OMG) but it turns out that the copies of the papers that I have on my flash drive aren't final copies ^^;; So I'll have to wait to get the final versions when I get home.

Last night, I dreamed that I died twice. The first death was a throat-slicing by some dude who ran himself into caitirin's car and said that she'd run him over, and so was determined to make her miserable. The second time was by poison pins, thrown at me by possibly the same guy in a later dream. The second one was really creepy because in the first one, my dream-consciousness switched to somebody else when my throat was cut, but in the next one, I felt myself go all numb and sick from the poison and die and become a ghost O.o

Okay, hormones, you have my attention now.

LJ tagging

hak_42 kindly brought it to my attention, through asking about some of my HP fanart, that I apparently am teh suck at LJ tagging. Because I can't find ONE PIECE of HP fanart through using my tags. And I know I've posted some. WTF. I also have been thwarted many times in the past looking for things and not finding them because I apparently haven't tagged them. In the move over from DeadJournal, which was a thousand times less complicated than caitirin's move, I managed to organize things very badly, I think.

So I've been going through my posts and tagging them better. Most of them are all right, but sometimes I miss stuff. I've also created some new tags - one for "words," and one for "utena" that's separate from my "anime" tag, which I usually file Utena stuff under.

Also, reading some of my posts about Brit Lit class when I was a sophomore = MORTIFYING.

Sophomore Year elaby: *rants about how stupid Gawain is and totally misinterprets everything* *goes on to talk about how Poe is so much more talented than Shelley*

MA elaby: *pulls shirt up over head in embarassment*

Yeezus, how could I have said that the alliteration in Gawain was ANNOYING? It's hysterical! And after reading Malory for four weeks, OMFG give me alliteration ANY DAY. I also didn't even APPROACH understanding of Gawain's character or the narrator's attitude toward purity and being a normal human. *hides under desk*

And while Shelley may drive me BANANAS sometimes, and while I might like Poe's lyrical style better and enjoy reading his poetry more, there is no denying that Shelley kicks Poe's ass in terms of being a... a... a wordsmith, I guess. Poe's stuff is beautiful and musical, and I can read it without my head threatening to explode, but it doesn't approach the level of care and attention that Shelley's does. You could probably write twenty pages on how Shelley's use of grammar mirrors his subject matter and never even have to break out the BS. His stuff is masterfully constructed in every aspect, not just in how it sounds.

That doesn't mean I have to like his poetry. But not to respect it would be just dumb.

Er, I think I got a little off track... what I was I talking about? Oh, yes, tags. I got up to 2004 and stopped there for now.