i have a paper i need to work on but i don't see it happening.

looks like we all got distracted

Yep. And I'm still distracted. Well, off to take that shower! Later!

happy getting clean time

@Cica >>> YES! Thank you

Linn, I sing that song every time I eat animal crackers.

@Nicole, yaaah, but last minute papers always come out so much better... there is a real sense of urgency.

it's a good animal cracker song... well... the only animal cracker song i know lol

lol it's actually already written and graded Woody. I'm editing it so I can present it at a conference

@Nicole: Oh great, a conference! Good luck with that. What kind of conference is it? I presented at a Tolkien Conference @ Uvm.

<<I think my haiku is done, it's not good, but it sure is about cheese.

Linn, I'm pretty sure there aren't any other animal cracker songs. The only other pop culture reference to an animal cracker that I know of is in Armageddon...

ah yes... i forgot about that movie

It's a conference of all the honors colleges from my area and it's academic type conference. I'm presenting an english paper

Nice, well good luck with your presentation then!

The Tolkien was academic too.... just you know, uber geeky academic. My Old English Professor hosts it every year.

hey that's pretty awesome, wings... congratulations... the piece must have been fabulous

Linn, wanna hear my haiku?

i sure do... lay it on me, woody ;)

thanks. yeah my teacher thinks it was, I'm still shocked.

that's sounds cool. I'm starting to learn Tolkien was actually cooler than I already think he is.

Stinky cheddar cheese

A luscious limburger sigh

Heaven in a wedge


@Nicole, yah congrats on that! Obviously if you were chosen your paper must have been really something special.

and Tolkien is pretty damn cool. After taking a few old english classes, I learn to appreciate his poetry and style a lot more, it is very much like Anglo- Saxon poetry in meter and alliteration, etc. I love it.

i like the cheesy haiku :XP

Yeah. all I had ever read before was of course the Lord of the Rings and I learned in my english class that he's actually an anglo-saxon expert. Hopefully I'll get to read some of him as i get farther into my degree.

A day didn't go by when translating Beowulf, that my professor didn't mention Tolkien in one way or another. XP


Thanks Linn! It took all of 2 minutes.... But still, I liked having an "assignment" again. (Sad, isn't it?)

i've never read anything by him... i guess i just never got into that kind of literature

i know what you mean, woody... i feel lost with out assignments too lol

It's not for everyone. Though, Linn, I think you'd like it. The Hobbit is a nice thing to start with. It would keep you on your fantasy kick.

You should see (and you will see, I guess in March) my book collection. I have one shelf that is just various literature. You know, books of a more scholarly nature. Then my other bookshelf is mostly (98%) fantasy/ folklore etc

Where are you going to school, if you don't mind me asking, Nicole?

i was intrigued about your collection before you mentioned that... are you in my brain right now, woody?

::Muffled:: Yes and it's warm and swishy! Can I stay in here? I promise I won't break anything!

yeah my prof. mentioned it when we were reading beowulf

i guess it's ok woody... as long as you don't you know... hit the spinal cord or anything... after all, it is connected to everything else