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Oh yeah...guess I did.

Lair.

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Originally Posted by browneyedbailey

Lair.

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Bailey, do you think that's getting a little too familiar with your Granny??
Let's be careful.

I read lines 1-227 of macbeth today in half an hour, despite finding shakespeare insufferable

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Originally Posted by browneyedbailey

My Birthay is in 16 more days today!!! I'll be 13.

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Originally Posted by Granny5

Oh My Gosh!!! You should have told me!!!
(just kidding :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: )

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Originally Posted by browneyedbailey

you knew.

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Originally Posted by Granny5

Oh yeah...guess I did.

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Originally Posted by browneyedbailey

Lair.

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I was just kidding Granny, my dearest Granny...

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Originally Posted by kratsayra

Yay, congrats! :D (sorry for the belated message, I'll have to visit this thread more often)

I have finally received word that my written exam was fine, and now my oral exam is scheduled for this coming Thursday. So I will hold off on the celebration until that is over with.

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Thanks, Krats. I'll have my fingers crossed for you on Thursday. I'm sure it will go beautifully. :)

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Originally Posted by kratsayra

Yay, congrats! :D (sorry for the belated message, I'll have to visit this thread more often)

I have finally received word that my written exam was fine, and now my oral exam is scheduled for this coming Thursday. So I will hold off on the celebration until that is over with.

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Originally Posted by Lioness_Heart

I applied to Wadham, but have an interview at St Anne's. I'm swinging between excited and nervous at the moment!

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Good luck to both of you. :thumbs_up

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Originally Posted by Jihad Joe

I read lines 1-227 of macbeth today in half an hour, despite finding shakespeare insufferable

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congrats, Joe. why don't you like Shakespeare?

kratsy, congrats on your written exams and good look for the orals!


bailey is another member of the Granny clan?

I finally finished by PhD exam!! I passed my oral exam this morning. :D yayayay, I'm so glad it's over now! :)

Way to go, Krats! :banana: :banana: :banana: I know for me it took about a day or more for it to really sink in that it was indeed over, and that I didn't have to read 12 or more hours a day anymore. A slow unwinding of a joyful realization and then, wow, the freedom!!! Go celebrate and enjoy the fact that you are now at liberty to sleep late, watch movies and television, go out with your friends at a moment's notice and engage in impromptu displays of song and dance. :D

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Originally Posted by kratsayra

I finally finished by PhD exam!! I passed my oral exam this morning. :D yayayay, I'm so glad it's over now! :)

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congrats kratsy!!!! how did it go? did you get a good mark?

WOW! that is wonderful. Good luck

thanks :)

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Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love

Way to go, Krats! :banana: :banana: :banana: I know for me it took about a day or more for it to really sink in that it was indeed over, and that I didn't have to read 12 or more hours a day anymore. A slow unwinding of a joyful realization and then, wow, the freedom!!! Go celebrate and enjoy the fact that you are now at liberty to sleep late, watch movies and television, go out with your friends at a moment's notice and engage in impromptu displays of song and dance. :D

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Yeah. It really hasn't sunk in yet. I'm all about going shopping. I can't wait. I'm going to go frolick in Manhattan. And I'm also going to play my Nintento DS, which is my guilty pleasure.

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Originally Posted by SleepyWitch

congrats kratsy!!!! how did it go? did you get a good mark?

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The oral exam was not as bad as I thought. The options for marks are just fail, pass, or high pass. I did get a "high pass" but the "pass" part is really the important thing. ;)

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Originally Posted by kratsayra

I finally finished by PhD exam!! I passed my oral exam this morning. :D yayayay, I'm so glad it's over now! :)

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Hooray!!!

http://www.partyshop.nl/images/congr...en-16500-l.jpg


http://www.whiskas.ie/NR/rdonlyres/3...enCarePack.jpg

haha. thanks.

you know, when I was a little kid, I had this collection of cat figurines. I almost feel like I should start one again, only virtual this time. ;)

Wow thats great, kratsarya! Congrats! :D Hats off and goblets up to ya!! :D

Congrats, Krats.

:banana: I wrote four pages (including a table) about statistics stuff for my thesis today. :banana: you may all bow and grovel before me! :D
tomorrow, you can all laugh at me when the prof tells me I did it the wrong way round and need to do it again :)

anyone seen Lioness? I wonder how her interview went.

Congrats, Kratsayra and Sleepy. :thumbs_up :thumbs_up :thumbs_up

Sleepy, I keep my fingers crossed for you! Tell us how it went.

24 pages out of the 60 page project...i am so tired of the labout market and everything that entails, foreign workers GO HOME! ARGH!
But, at least now it looks like i'll finish on time :)

Member of 3 honor societies, an English Honors program and will be reviewed for Phi Beta Kappa soon!!! A senior in college this year with published poetry and a publishable Emerson paper and a 60+ page political theory paper based on memory from Proust's Swans Way; plus currently working on my English honors thesis. Wicked...rock on me...;)

Straight 'A's this semester! *phew*
One of which was the Melville seminar, in which I was one of about...two undergraduates.

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Originally Posted by Chava

24 pages out of the 60 page project...i am so tired of the labout market and everything that entails, foreign workers GO HOME! ARGH!
But, at least now it looks like i'll finish on time :)

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what project is that? hey our page count is almost the same, I've written 26 out of 60 :) we're meant for each other :D

Congratulations Witch, Chava, Jamesian, miljohns5, and kratsayra! :)

Umm what have I got to boast about? Well, my mid-year school exams are finally over, and none went too badly.

I posted more than 456 times! Woo hoo....
*craze sees the 8,000+ posts of pensive and sulks*
:)

Congratulations, Kratsayra (feels like your dreaming, right?), Sleepy, Chava, miljohnj5, Jamesian (straight A's -- WOOT!), and smiles going to crazefest456! :)

I've been awake for 42 of the last 48 hour to finish this project. It's due in just 6 hours, and it's finally beginning to look about right.
In about 3 hours i have to be at work ready for an 11 hour shift. Good God, I hope i make it, and i hope i will sleep well tonight, ready for the next shift, and the shift after that. Then it will be christmas. Maybe i will fall asleep before Santa arrives...

Congratulations to everyone on their accomplishments! But I wanted to highlight Jamesian:

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Originally Posted by Jamesian

Straight 'A's this semester! *phew*
One of which was the Melville seminar, in which I was one of about...two undergraduates.

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Well, done! :thumbs_up I would have loved to have taken a Melville seminar in college. I assume now you're an expert on Moby Dick.

Paco
Chin Chan


edit: arg, this was supposed to go in the name Baki's puppy thread. dunno how it ended up here :(

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Originally Posted by Virgil

Congratulations to everyone on their accomplishments! But I wanted to highlight Jamesian:


Well, done! :thumbs_up I would have loved to have taken a Melville seminar in college. I assume now you're an expert on Moby Dick.

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I know it pretty well, having written a somewhat lengthy paper on it (by undergrad standards - at a little under 16 pages, my longest to date for school); but really just well enough to know I have to read it again. It's an odd book...
One thing I can say definitively, however, is that I do not, under any circumstances, recommend Melville's novel Pierre.

4 & 13,

i defy thee.

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Originally Posted by Jamesian

I know it pretty well, having written a somewhat lengthy paper on it (by undergrad standards - at a little under 16 pages, my longest to date for school); but really just well enough to know I have to read it again. It's an odd book...
One thing I can say definitively, however, is that I do not, under any circumstances, recommend Melville's novel Pierre.

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Hahaha, I've never read it, but I've heard that before. Only other full length novel I've read is Typee, which was quite enjoyable. I guess Benito Cereno is almost a full length novel, and while it had literary merit I'm not sure it was that enjoyable. I love Melville's shorter works.

I got an A grade GCSE two years early and am also doing an A/S level in maths two years early...
I dont have much to brag about accept that, shame on me...

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Originally Posted by Virgil

Hahaha, I've never read it, but I've heard that before. Only other full length novel I've read is Typee, which was quite enjoyable. I guess Benito Cereno is almost a full length novel, and while it had literary merit I'm not sure it was that enjoyable. I love Melville's shorter works.

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That's how I felt going into this course...and still is. We did BC and Bartleby (which I already knew from a previous course, and are what inclined me to enroll in the first place), plus Billy Budd, which is very good too. Typee was lots of fun, indeed, and I kind of want to read his other travel book Omoo now. Not for a while, though. White-Jacket is also good, though it's not exactly fictional (in a sense, neither is Typee); more of a rail against American naval usages - flogging and so forth - but it has some of my favorite passages. I guess altogether the class material amounted to about half of HM's output (no Confidence-Man, no Mardi or Redburn, no "Paradise of Bachelors", etc.), but it does have me thoroughly interested in his works now, so I'll probably be returning to him in the future (in works other than Moby-Dick, I mean).

i've been on vacation a bit more than a week and i haven't gained weight!!!

My granddaughter, browneyedbailey, has had the poem she wrote about her great grandfather selected to be published in a book containing poems by young poets. The poems were chosen and offered for selection by teachers from across the country. Here is her poem that they selected:

Out where the cotton grows

Down in the fields where the cotton grows.
Where the irrigational system flows.
Where the tallest stalks of corn grows.
In a little town no bigger than my own.
Out in the East where the cotton grows.
Blooms no bigger than the palm of my hand.
In the Delta of little ol' Arkansas.
Where the the cotton grows .
Two hundred pounds by hands a day.
Out in the sun his seven kids to play.
Great grand daddy Smithee picking away.
Where the cotton grows.

:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

I continue to recieve compliments about an appearance I made some time ago when I sang for the first time in front of an audience:a debutante.At least something to make my day sound good!

P.S.Granny5,congratulations about your grandaughter!She really has it!

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Originally Posted by Granny5

My granddaughter, browneyedbailey, has had the poem she wrote about her great grandfather selected to be published in a book containing poems by young poets. The poems were chosen and offered for selection by teachers from across the country. Here is her poem that they selected:

Out where the cotton grows

Down in the fields where the cotton grows.
Where the irrigational system flows.
Where the tallest stalks of corn grows.
In a little town no bigger than my own.
Out in the East where the cotton grows.
Blooms no bigger than the palm of my hand.
In the Delta of little ol' Arkansas.
Where the the cotton grows .
Two hundred pounds by hands a day.
Out in the sun his seven kids to play.
Great grand daddy Smithee picking away.
Where the cotton grows.

:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

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Hooray for Bailey!!!!! :banana: I love the poem. It deserves it.

Congrats to you too Remarkable. What kind of songs did you sing?

Congrats bailey!!!

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Originally Posted by Granny5

My granddaughter, browneyedbailey, has had the poem she wrote about her great grandfather selected to be published in a book containing poems by young poets. The poems were chosen and offered for selection by teachers from across the country. Here is her poem that they selected:

Out where the cotton grows

Down in the fields where the cotton grows.
Where the irrigational system flows.
Where the tallest stalks of corn grows.
In a little town no bigger than my own.
Out in the East where the cotton grows.
Blooms no bigger than the palm of my hand.
In the Delta of little ol' Arkansas.
Where the the cotton grows .
Two hundred pounds by hands a day.
Out in the sun his seven kids to play.
Great grand daddy Smithee picking away.
Where the cotton grows.

:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

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browneyedbailey is your granddaughter? I didn't know that. So how many of your fam members are on the forum? That's a great poem by the way. Congrats.