Leila

It doesn't have to be positive or typical or cliche. In fact, I would love recommendations of unusual or unconventional love poetry, and a mix of the optimistic and cynical would be great as well.

BQ: How about your favorite love song? (Again, I'm including angry breakup songs and better-off-without-you songs in this category.)

I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to answer my own question, but my favorite pieces of love-ish poetry include Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, Dorothy Parker's "Prophetic Soul", and A.E. Housman's "The New Mistress". (The last one may be a bit of a stretch.) I think my favorite love song might be Ingrid Michaelson's "The Way I Am," even though it is almost nauseatingly sweet. :P

Thanks for your input! :D

(Double-posted in Books and Authors.)

It doesn't have to be positive or typical or cliche. In fact, I would love recommendations of unusual or unconventional love poetry, and a mix of the optimistic and cynical would be great as well.

BQ: How about your favorite love song? (Again, I'm including angry breakup songs and better-off-without-you songs in this category.)

I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to answer my own question, but my favorite pieces of love-ish poetry include Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, Dorothy Parker's "Prophetic Soul", and A.E. Housman's "The New Mistress". (The last one may be a bit of a stretch.) I think my favorite love song might be Ingrid Michaelson's "The Way I Am," even though it is almost nauseatingly sweet. :P

Thanks for your input! :D

This likely sounds a little silly, but I'm trying to motivate myself towards an actual interest. I'm generally fond of learning, and I love all subjects left-brained. Give me a course in history or English or a foreign language, and I'll gladly spend hours on the topic. General chemistry, however, has become the bane of my existence, and I can't help but feel like it would be more pleasant if I could see the connection between electron spin and the actual, functioning, visible world. Can anyone recommend a book, website, or publication that's oriented around applied chemistry and still intriguing to a scientific layman? If not, do you have any suggestions as to how to connect chemistry to the rest of the subjects that fit in the web of things-I-understand? :P

This likely sounds a little silly, but I'm trying to motivate myself towards an actual interest. I'm generally fond of learning, and I love all subjects left-brained. Give me a course in history or English or a foreign language, and I'll gladly spend hours on the topic. General chemistry, however, has become the bane of my existence, and I can't help but feel like it would be more pleasant if I could see the connection between electron spin and the actual, functioning, visible world. Can anyone recommend a book, website, or publication that's oriented around applied chemistry and still intriguing to a scientific layman? If not, do you have any suggestions as to how to connect chemistry to the rest of the subjects that fit in the web of things-I-understand? :P

I'm trying to cite a new edition of Charles Dickens' Hard Times. The novel was published in 1853, but Oxford World's Classics (the publisher I'm using) didn't print it until 1989, and their most recent reissue was 2008. The most recent MLA guidelines say I should cite most novels like this:

Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher,

Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.

or new editions like this:

Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary

Students. 3rd ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2004. Print.

I suspect I should use the second format, but which year do I use, 2008 or 1853?

Thanks so much. :)

I'm trying to organize a May Day event for my college campus. I'm using a 12-foot-long carpet tube anchored in a 5-gallon bucket of cement for my pole. Does anyone have any advice as to what kind of ribbons to use (satin? grosgrain? something else?) and how to attach them to the pole? I was thinking of either staple-gunning them on, or cutting holes in the top of the pole and threading the ribbons through, so that each ribbon is being pulled by two people (one on each end) rather than one. If anyone has experience with this sort of thing, or better ideas, I would love to hear them. :)

Heyla,

I'm trying to make a torc (metal Celtic necklace-type-thing), and I was wondering whether anyone had any pertinent advice. I'm planning on twisting or braiding several strands of ten-guage wire together, but I have no idea how to make or where to find the heads for the ends. Thoughts?

Thanks,

-Leila :)