Today's lecture was of the most endurable kind: we spent much of the assigned hours watching parts of a movie version of Hamlet.  It was amusing at parts (both where meant and less meant), revealed some implied events that I had missed on first reading, and provided a more enjoyable study of the work than I imagine long lecture would have.

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Dante is done and mostly lectured on, and Hamlet is in the works.  I should be through it by now, perhaps even twice over, but distractions have averted me enough that I have not yet gotten through for the first time.  The volumes of Hana Kimi (I speak of the manga this time) that I brought with me held much greater and easier interest for a time, ( Read more... )

Work was very long today.  There were some definite great moments to it, but after a shorter shift today it was hard to go so long today.  A bit of time after I got off work Lizzy came round and got me and I met the all-famous Sarah, who Lizzy has been dying to introduce me to for a long while now.  That was fun and included both Wendy's and The ( Read more... )

Today I had the day off from work since New Year's is one of the few days of the year that we're closed.  I woke up a bit late since my mom and I stayed up watching an (amazing) episode of Lynley last night.  After that, I got together with Jing, Rachel, and Katie D.  We played a bunch of Mario Galaxy and the flash version of Portal and in general ( Read more... )