there's no possible way to describe what you feel when you're talking to your meal
Happy Twelfth Night, all! :D
Unfortunately, I do not own a film version of Shakespeare's play with which I may commemorate the occasion, so I shall listen to the Globe CD instead. Mmmmmm, Globey goodness.
Today has been filled with minor yet annoying inconveniences, viz., my car door being frozen shut (I opened it with a de-icer and a lot of hot water), leaving my credit card at the university bookstore (I have it back now), and, although I finally managed to pick up my accumulated mail at the post office, there was absolutely nothing interesting in it. Fortunately, I am in a good mood anyway, because I have a copy of Players of Shakespeare 6 en route, which consists entirely of essays by actors who were in the RSC's recent productions of the entire history cycle (in fact, Sam West is one of the contributors, talking about Richard II... *drool*). This has to be pretty high up there on the list of "Books That Appear To Have Been Designed With Me, Specifically, In Mind." ;) (I've actually met one of the contributors, too, which is neat.)
Sadly, most of my course texts don't appear to be in yet -- I have a book of poetry by Henryson, Dunbar, and Douglas, and a 15th-century Scottish poem called The Wallace, which I've seen on the TEAMS website but not read myself. And not much was in for the "Milton and people influenced by Milton" course yet, except for Frankenstein and I already have that. I'm set for the Shakespeare class because we're just using the Riverside...
I really am looking forward to classes, though. I think it will actually help in my studying, because I didn't take classes last semester and I suspect that that contributed to my general sense of intellectual stagnation and consequent getting accomplishment of very little -- if I'm in class and thus am in a pattern of reading and thinking about texts, it will probably be easier to motivate myself for the additional studying. At least, I hope that's the case. I may in fact be deluding myself, and am actually doomed to go entirely nuts from the workload. But at least it won't be from grading huge stacks of essays...
Unfortunately, I do not own a film version of Shakespeare's play with which I may commemorate the occasion, so I shall listen to the Globe CD instead. Mmmmmm, Globey goodness.
Today has been filled with minor yet annoying inconveniences, viz., my car door being frozen shut (I opened it with a de-icer and a lot of hot water), leaving my credit card at the university bookstore (I have it back now), and, although I finally managed to pick up my accumulated mail at the post office, there was absolutely nothing interesting in it. Fortunately, I am in a good mood anyway, because I have a copy of Players of Shakespeare 6 en route, which consists entirely of essays by actors who were in the RSC's recent productions of the entire history cycle (in fact, Sam West is one of the contributors, talking about Richard II... *drool*). This has to be pretty high up there on the list of "Books That Appear To Have Been Designed With Me, Specifically, In Mind." ;) (I've actually met one of the contributors, too, which is neat.)
Sadly, most of my course texts don't appear to be in yet -- I have a book of poetry by Henryson, Dunbar, and Douglas, and a 15th-century Scottish poem called The Wallace, which I've seen on the TEAMS website but not read myself. And not much was in for the "Milton and people influenced by Milton" course yet, except for Frankenstein and I already have that. I'm set for the Shakespeare class because we're just using the Riverside...
I really am looking forward to classes, though. I think it will actually help in my studying, because I didn't take classes last semester and I suspect that that contributed to my general sense of intellectual stagnation and consequent getting accomplishment of very little -- if I'm in class and thus am in a pattern of reading and thinking about texts, it will probably be easier to motivate myself for the additional studying. At least, I hope that's the case. I may in fact be deluding myself, and am actually doomed to go entirely nuts from the workload. But at least it won't be from grading huge stacks of essays...