Hey lovely people,

I've not updated in forever. I keep trying to and have about 20 half-finished entries saved to my computer as proof. But, I don't know, it just never happens. What is everyone's experiences with using tumblr as a blogging platform instead of just a reblogging-pretty-pictures-of-boats-and-jackalopes platform? I might start making personal posts over there.

So, in case you haven't already, add me: http://sugar-quill.tumblr.com

As for now, I'll turn this into a photo post. :)

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Gah! I am the absolute worst. I know there are a ton of new people who've friended me in the past couple of months and I've not updated at all. :/ I've been really quite busy. Papers papers test reading papers, etc. I have two more papers to write this weekend. One on Frankenstein and the other on… I don't know. I'm thinking "the Nun's Priest's Tale" because how often do I get to write about roosters? I also started Tess of the D'Urbervilles on Monday and I'm currently at Phase the Fifth. I've never read it and all I knew going into it was that it is a tragedy. One of my professors admitted to having never read it, only having watched the movie, because of how depressing it is. So I'm on edge right now, reading it. I'm a bit ashamed to admit that the only thing I've read by Hardy is a few of his poems. I have, however, and this probably ought to produce more shame, seen the movie version of Jude the Obscure. The one with Kate Winslet. And gracious me, I can't imagine Tess being as bad as that.

I only have 3 more days of classes. Then one day of finals. Then I'm done for the semester!

I'm gonna stop this entry now but hopefully I'll get back to updating more! :)


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My hermit crab has taken to burrowing under his food dish. I find it adorable.

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This is completely random: As some of you may have noticed, I have a beautiful Tonner Severus Snape doll. Some of you may even remember when I got him for Christmas two years ago. I did, after all, post about a thousand pictures. I never realized he was limited edition. After I told my mom I wanted him, she searched high and low and I'm thankful she did because they are now near impossible to find! And, get this, the only one I've found on ebay sold for a little under $600. While the only one I can find actually for sale is listed on amazon for a little under $1300. Who knew? I'm pretty sure my mom only paid $180 for him.

This is entirely unrelated to anything you guys care about. But I was kind of amazed. I feel rather guilty now because whenever somebody would comment on him in my bedroom posts I would be like "You should ABSOLUTELY BUY ONE! They're totally reasonably priced!" Lol, oops.


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I have a bunch of reading to do tonight: a chapter for History of English Language (this doesn't sound like much, but that class is really super hard), the first 10 chapters of Frankenstein (I'm so thankful I've already read this book), and the General Prologue for The Canterbury Tales (which I've also read before, but in Modern English. Now I need to reread it in Middle English.)

Middle English sounds so beautiful. Not so much when I speak (butcher) it. But it's so lovely when other people do it! I sometimes record myself practicing, to better my pronunciations:


(Oh! I should've put makeup on before I made this!)

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour,
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne.

(etc. etc.)

My new bunny! He's about 6 years old and a rescue. The girl who gave him to me found him on the side of the road a few years back. In the middle of winter, no less. Who would just abandon a domestic rabbit? She no longer had time (or space) to properly care for him, so she offered him to my boyfriend who gave him to me. :) Once I get some $$$ I'm going to get him a bigger cage, the one he came with seems so small! I did get him a little runner to go near his cage so that he would have more space. I also got him a whole bunch of toys today. Though I still need to get a leash for his little harness.

He's super adorable. He actually plays with toys! He throws his little chew toys around and pulls on the dangly things and rips up the paper I gave him. I've never had a small animal who actually played. Hogwarts (my hedgehog) just runs on his wheel all night and completely ignores the cute little balls I gave him. :(


I know I have some bunny owners on my list! Can you guys give me any tips? I got him so unexpectedly that I wasn't able to do as extensive of research as I usually do before I get an animal.


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This will just be a photo post, most likely. I had typed out this really long and detailed entry that I kept meaning to post. But now it's terribly out of date, so I will try to do make another one soon.

As for now: My Chaucer class starts in 25 minutes. I have a paper due tonight at midnight hat I kept telling myself I would get done weeks earlier, but instead finished last night around 7 o'clock. I wrote about the Alcyone and Ceyx part of "Book of the Duchess." It's not great. But at least it's done.

I got a bunny! His name is technically Stewart, but I've found that everybody who comes in contact with him calls him something different. I'll take pictures tonight. He's precious. :) I also dyed my hair dark brown, as you will see.

Now here are some pictures of my love and I.

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When I first got into photography, one of the first photographers I really started to follow was this girl on Deviantart who did these wonderful self-portraits. Then about a year later, she gave up on the self-portraits and started posting a lot of food photography. I remember that I was really sad because I liked the portraits so much and I just had no interest in pictures of food.

Now I post next to no portraits and I take pictures of all of my meals. Funny how things like that happen.


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