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During the entire semester (and in many previous semesters), I have assured my literature students that they would learn two things in my class, whether they liked it or not.  To wit:

1. What a digression is.
2. I am a geek.

And at the end of this semester, overtired, overworked, down-trodden, and down-hearted, I was making up my World Literature exam, and ( Read more... )

I just spent an hour restoring an e-mail account that I mistakenly and hastily deleted ( Read more... )

As my hede-techer sayd, "Gode newes for once!" The Daun of Artes and Scientias hath suffred my course in Literature of Olde Englische ond Middel Englische ( Read more... )

It's one thing to get up in the morning, and, in the first bleary, blurry moments of waking, wonder, "What classes am I teaching today?"  Usually, when this happens, I remember in a moment what day of the week it is, and consequently, what classes I'm teaching.

It's one thing to get up in the morning, and, as I'm eating breakfast or walking in from ( Read more... )

Well, I received Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at about 3:45 p.m. on Saturday. I read the first 550 pages that night, and finished the book by 10:30 Sunday morning.

My head is still spinning.

It's 1:40 CDT, and my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows still hasn't arrived on the UPS truck from Amazon.com ( Read more... )

It all started innocently enough. Jim the Boyfriend (also an English instructor) and I were discussing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan. And I said that it was like a fast-paced Disney theme ride: Look, a pleasure dome! Oooh, caves of ice! Wow, a woman wailing for her demon lover! How did we get to that damsel with a dulcimer? Who's ( Read more... )