About

Right now I’m an M.A. student in the English Department at the University of Toronto. I am hoping to focus on Romantic and Victorian literature, but who knows, right? It turns out that the best of the best of any time period is, you know, generally quite good.

Before I entered my M.A. I took a year off and worked at a small marketing firm in Ottawa, where I mostly did web writing and search engine optimization. It was pretty neat, but sitting at home all day researching literary criticism, deconstructing novels, and writing essays is pretty darn fun. Although if my 14-year-old self found me saying that, he would probably have some kind of mental breakdown.

In my undergrad I wrote for and eventually edited Volume 42 of Golden Words Newspaper. It’s a comedy paper. We basically sat around on office from noon on Sunday to 5 am Monday, writing, socializing, and trying to put together 12-24 pages of content. We exchanged advertising space for pizza and Pakistani cuisine, which we then used to bait new writers and layout/graphics staff.

I’m starting this blog because, aside from haikus, there’s some stuff I sometimes feel like saying, and Twitter’s 140 characters just doesn’t cut it.