angevin2: also, this is win http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2011/08/25/essay_considers_mindsets_of_previous_generations_of_new_college_students
lareinenoire: YES
angevin2: (also, a med/ren one would probably be hilarious ( Read more... )

Shakespeare's birthday is this week, and my Shakespeare students have been good all semester.

( So I made them a cake. )

I am watching (some of) the Fiona Shaw Richard II right now, in order to figure out which bits of it I want to show for tomorrow's class on Act II. I hadn't seen it in years (mostly because my tape was on loan for ages). Either it is much better than I remember, or I'm just not watching the bits that annoyed me most the first time. Probably it is ( Read more... )

is that you might end up having two different snow days. Which is what happened to me yesterday and today. This is awesome.

Of course, it still has to be weighted against the fact that they have two different spring breaks, which is terrible.

via medievalstudies: Impending digital version of The Forme of Cury. Yay!

Also, today I learned that if your class is tanking out, showing them videos in which people wear giant plastic phalloi livens things up a lot.

As performed by Beaker.

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Man, I hate the last evening before a new semester.

By a felicitous occurrence of scheduling, my next Wednesday night comp class falls on International Talk Like a Pirate DayI think we are going to have to take part in the piratical festivities. Also, next week we are going to be discussing "A Modest Proposal," which is not a bad text to be talking about on this date. Arrrrrrrrr, we be eatin' some ( Read more... )

Because I feel like it, random Good Things:

I've been doing a bit of woodshedding for the Lord Nelson Mass (the first rehearsal where we're actually doing anything is tomorrow) and it is so cool. Granted, singing in the alto section in a mixed chorus entails sitting on Fs and Gs for a long time, but hey, who am I to think I'm the whole of the ( Read more... )

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