Long time, no see

Well, the past two weeks have been quite a rollercoaster ride.  I'll be brief (or at least try to) and spare you the details: a total of four midterm exams (two going extremely well, one so-so, and one utter failure because I couldn't complete it in time DX), two symposia (one on student writers, in which I participated in a poetry reading and a meeting about how to create a stronger writing community on campus; the other on food, in which at Whole Foods president Walter Robb's lecture I won an autographed copy of Hope's Edge by Francis Moore and Anna Lappé in a raffle), lots of interesting and not-so-interesting lectures (including a poetry reading by Galway Kinnell), a hike up a nearby mountain, starting weekly Korean classes again, trying to get involved in a student effort to make student class evaluations public, brunch at our first-year seminar's professor's house (where I put my foot in my mouth yet again, as I am wont to do around some of the people I know).  Oh yes, and managing to potentially piss off one of the few remaining people from high school I talk to on a regular basis.  D:

Phew.  What a lot to condense into a single paragraph.  I'm just glad I don't have a lot of homework this weekend, and that my schedule this week isn't ridiculously packed like last week.  Hopefully things won't be too stressful until around Thanksgiving break -- after that, there's only one week left before finals, and that's when all the work of the semester tends to pile up.  Anyway, take care and have a good weekend!

[poem] Hell Is Neon

This is the poem I read as part of the student writing symposium on the 16th, which I mentioned in my last post. I would normally have this on my deviantART page I have for this kind of thing (as opposed to the one I use for fandom should I ever write fanfiction), but I don't feel like updating it, and I haven't written anything new in a while, and I like the idea of sharing them here instead. I wrote this sometime in July, and what you see is as it was, save a few minor edits I made before the reading. I know that poetry, especially that written by LiveJournal users, isn't all too popular here and now (to put it nicely), hence the "poetry oh noetry" tag and the cut. Hope you enjoy it! (Oh, and feel free to leave any criticism you want -- any opportunity to improve is always good.)

( Hell Is Neon )