"i wish i could have the ability to write down the feelings i have now that i'm still little, because when i grow up i will know how to write, but i will have forgotten what being little feels like" - Sylvia Plath

Hola... I'm Samantha, and if you're reading this you should already know me and are mildly interested in catching up with the new events in my life. That's basically what this blog is for... to relate the ups and downs of my quest for total enlightenment through a PhD in musicology (said sarcastically). I'm a huge anglophile (I have a degree from the University of Oxford, UK), lover of literature, art, music, chocolate, English tea, coffee, and exercise. I love academia and learning new things about all periods, but especially the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. I'm a recovering Evangelical and am now challenging myself to work out my own brand of Libertarian Christianity. My blog will be expressions of my walk through life, but also occasionally academic, political and philosophical discussions.

just a girl with beauty-spectacles perched on her nose. come and see what i see.

It feels like running with your eyes closed if you forget what you're supposed to be.