between the drinks and subtle things
lilium inter spinas - the lily among the thorns
I want to watch A Knight's Tale again. Chaucer, man. So clever and Cereus-looking; Paul Bettany is just beautiful. He's only ... oh snap, he's sixteen years older than me. Well. Moving on >.>
I'm pretty much working my butt off every single day. I worked at the conference, read cards, had an amazing time - and got invited to apply to U of Alabama (Tuscaloosa)'s Shakespeare PhD program ... by the director of said program. Apparently I impressed her. I'm fairly positive that I don't want to throw myself into another academic program just now, but it's flattering to get the offer, and I'm not opposed to going back for my PhD in a couple of years. And I do love Shakespeare an awful lot ^^;
My students are taking their midterm exam and turning in the final draft of an essay Friday. I'm finishing up the last book from Dr Loomis's recs and revising the preface to my thesis, which I plan to have finished by tomorrow night. I've also completely redone the third/final section of the thesis itself. That section is going through its fourth revision tomorrow. I plan to send preface, section, and two (possibly three) extraneous poems to my advisor tomorrow night, which will then give me the weekend to grade my students' work and catch up on homework.
Friday night Patricia Briggs is doing a booksigning here in town. Becky and I are going; I'm taking, uh, all of her books that I own, I think about ten. Dunno if she'll sign them all, but I refuse to get there and her be like "Oh, would you like some more signatures?" and me say "WELL OF COURSE but I left all the other books at home." I'd be so grumpy.
Next week I revise thesis, assign essay #3 to my students, and teach them about objective reasoning and also commas. Ideally, I finish my thesis by next Friday (March 23) and go to Shreveport for a nice relaxing weekend with my friends and family - and get to meet my almost-three month old nephew, Harper, whom I still haven't seen in person.
So ... that's how my life is going. Tons upon tons of things, all the time. But the end is in sight, at last, and in two months I'll have a master's degree. Assuming I don't have a homicidal breakdown before then ^^;
I want to watch A Knight's Tale again. Chaucer, man. So clever and Cereus-looking; Paul Bettany is just beautiful. He's only ... oh snap, he's sixteen years older than me. Well. Moving on >.>
I'm pretty much working my butt off every single day. I worked at the conference, read cards, had an amazing time - and got invited to apply to U of Alabama (Tuscaloosa)'s Shakespeare PhD program ... by the director of said program. Apparently I impressed her. I'm fairly positive that I don't want to throw myself into another academic program just now, but it's flattering to get the offer, and I'm not opposed to going back for my PhD in a couple of years. And I do love Shakespeare an awful lot ^^;
My students are taking their midterm exam and turning in the final draft of an essay Friday. I'm finishing up the last book from Dr Loomis's recs and revising the preface to my thesis, which I plan to have finished by tomorrow night. I've also completely redone the third/final section of the thesis itself. That section is going through its fourth revision tomorrow. I plan to send preface, section, and two (possibly three) extraneous poems to my advisor tomorrow night, which will then give me the weekend to grade my students' work and catch up on homework.
Friday night Patricia Briggs is doing a booksigning here in town. Becky and I are going; I'm taking, uh, all of her books that I own, I think about ten. Dunno if she'll sign them all, but I refuse to get there and her be like "Oh, would you like some more signatures?" and me say "WELL OF COURSE but I left all the other books at home." I'd be so grumpy.
Next week I revise thesis, assign essay #3 to my students, and teach them about objective reasoning and also commas. Ideally, I finish my thesis by next Friday (March 23) and go to Shreveport for a nice relaxing weekend with my friends and family - and get to meet my almost-three month old nephew, Harper, whom I still haven't seen in person.
So ... that's how my life is going. Tons upon tons of things, all the time. But the end is in sight, at last, and in two months I'll have a master's degree. Assuming I don't have a homicidal breakdown before then ^^;