Greetings from the fair and balmy north, friends! Baylor is being well-represented here at RMMLA, and yet still the Digest comes winging to you, hopefully bringing a crisp, pleasant breeze with it. Perhaps try sitting in the path of an AC vent as you read this. 19th CRS: TODAY, 3:30-4:30 PM “Looking at Blake,” Dr.…
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A cool breeze has drifted through Waco, bringing down a few power lines along the way, and admit it, all your thoughts are now delicately spiced with cinnamon and you think this might be the week you can justify restocking on hot chocolate. Then you remember you’re in Texas, and today’s high was still 86, and…
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Today’s Digest is brought to you by Pop Sonnets. No, not really. I just thought it should be your lives and had no graceful way to shoehorn it in to an actual announcement. Monday, Sept 29: Beall-Russell Lecture: Amy Tan “An Afternoon with Amy Tan” 3:30 PM, 510 Cashion Building Sounds cozy, doesn’t it? Like you…
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Today’s Digest will rapidly start to feel like an exercise in hyperlinks. Click them. Click them all. Â Fall Party, Saturday, 9/20 Turn up at 601 Dyer Ave around 7 PM Obtain entry using the secret password (“I brought food/drink!”) Fancy dress. This is American fancy dress (dress up fancy) rather than British fancy dress…
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Buckle up, EGSA, and let’s do this thing. (What thing?) (Back off! It’s just something people say!) Â Armstrong Browning Library Open House, TODAY 3:30-4:45 PM Hosted by the ABL and the 19th CRS Manuscripts, tours, finger foods (hopefully not food made of fingers) Â Graduate Student Reception, Moody Library, TODAY 4:00-5:30 PM, Moody 104…
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Salvete! (10 of you just shuddered in a terrible flash of deja vu.) Good job breaking ice and eating ice cream last week, everyone. Let’s announce some things. 19th CRS, TODAY Today, 3:30 PM, Armstrong Browning Library Lecture Hall Heidi Seward and Daniel Benyousky will be delivering papers. If you like Jane Austen, Aristole, John Keats, W.…
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Dear friends, You have all successfully survived the first week of school. Congratulations! Now brace yourselves for announcements. Please let me know if you aren’t receiving the Digests. That’s like a trick question, isn’t it? Raise your hand if you’re not here! But really. I have triple-checked my list and hope to heaven everyone is…
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Soon–SOON, I promise–we’ll get to a proper end-of-week format. Bear with us through the start-of-semester turbulence. Until then, blame other EGSA officers for the substance of this email. Better yet, blame someone who’s never even heard of EGSA. Ice Cream Social This Saturday! 6 PM! At the Marshalls’ former domicile! As Prufrock once asked, do…
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