Coconuts xD

An explanation about why I find this so funny will be forthcoming as soon as I take some time to upload all the photos I've been taking...

Final Grades Are In!!!

*looks smug*

Undergraduate Course work Fall 2006

	Subject	Course	Section	Course Title		Final Grade
	ENGL	239H	01	Hnrs:Westrn Literary Traditn 2		A
	ENGL	402	01	Middle Eng Lang and Literature		A
	ENGL	415	01	Sem:Joyce and Woolf		A
	FREN	101	0	Elementary French 1		A
	HIST	106	02	Contours of US History		A
	MATH	155H	01	Hnrs:Applied Calculus 1		B

Back Home

Well, I'm back home and settling in pretty well, considering that my mind and body were completely exhausted by the final exams, papers, and projects that have filled the last week of the semester.

I love my nice new mattress though :D

It turns out that my dad's coming home for Christmas after all, so on Tuesday night we'll pick him up at the airport... I was actually feeling kind of down that he wasn't going to be able to make it out here, so I am surprised and glad that he will be after all :)

Not much more in the way of news; I brought a lovely digital camera back with me from the Snapper (Nikon D70, baby!) so I will try to put some photos up. I've been catching up on my reading, and am already roughly halfway through The Poisonwood Bible. Cheers!

'Cause I am Teh Awesome

This is what my desk looked like while I was writing the paper that goes with my ballad...

My Awesome Ballad

The Ballad of Mount Badon

"Dark days are falling on Britain!"
Her people cried aloud.
The Saxon scourge spread o'er the land,
A darkly growing cloud.

The Saxons marched on Badon Hill,
And threatened the fortress there.
King Arthur swore to punish them,
And warned them to beware.

He gathered his host of noble men,
Brave knights so strong and true;
They readied horses, took up swords
And cheered as pennants flew.

The knights rode out with God's blessing
Their ladies waved farewell.
They trusted in Arthur their lord
To fight the Saxon rebel.

In the shadow of Mount Badon
The British army camped.
The horses caught their riders' moods,
And impatiently they stamped.

Arthur stood and gave a speech:
"The Saxons broke my peace,
And God shall surely aid our cause.
Their power will decrease.

Victorious we will be this day,
We have a greater troop.
The Saxons will before us fall
Upon them we will swoop."

He raised Excalibur up high;
The battle cries began.
The ranks of Saxons waited there
Across the valley's span.

The pagans were a fearsome sight
All clad in gilded mail;
The spears were glinting in the sun;
They thought they could not fail.

King Arthur and his bold knights charged,
Their noble horses reared.
The Dragon banner proudly waved.
The King's great host was feared.

The two great armies shortly met,
With a violent clash of swords.
Of all the knights who fought that day,
None were ever cowards.

The Britons won at Mount Badon,
In glory they were shod.
The tale of Arthur's victory
Will echo in our blood.

And though this happened long ago,
The legend still lives on;
Of knights who fought and won the day
For glory and Mount Badon.