Just a little post to say that I'm not dead. It'll be a bit of time before I have time to go through friends' pages, tho.

I've been working a lot on the non-novel, and I'm past the thirty-page mark, which means it's not going to be a short story.

My last course is going well. I'm still settling on an essay topic. I read John Lyly's Gallathea ( Read more... )

So I've mostly bounced back from Tuesday's news. Things are returning to quasi-normal ( Read more... )

So I've been at the office all weekend (I'm only halfway through my work-week). Trying to input attendance for a few thousand students on ancient '486 computers is an exercise in patience -- my computer sometimes freezes for ten minutes at a time while it does all the necessary calculations ( Read more... )

I continue to be not dead, though I'm mostly only checking LJ once a week. Mostly it's just usual internet detox -- too much electronic communication has always had a bad effect on me, and I need to periodically unplug ( Read more... )

It's comforting to know the Bard of Stratford, the Great Wordsmith, the man who gave the French language its nickname for English (la langue de Shakespeare), occasionally had his off days.

Possibly Shakespeare's worst lines, from Henry IV, part I:

"...Come, let me taste my horse ( Read more... )

Reading Henry IV, part I by Shakespeare. I'm loving it. I'm surprised it's not more popular -- I think his use of language is at its height, there, and his characters are even more interesting and better developed than in most of the Shakespeare I've read ( Read more... )

I hope to live long enough to see this entire map dark blue.

Got my courses straightened out yesterday at Concordia. The last course of my degree will be "Sources of Shakespeare's Comedy" -- because I've managed to get to the end of a Master's degree in English lit without ever once covering a Shakespeare play.

The verdict on Volpone is that " ( Read more... )

Okay, Shakespeare is really creepy. I can't believe it took me so long to notice ( Read more... )