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Oh, it's been ages, hasn't it? I've never been a good diarist.
I just got back from the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference in Hawaii (next year, Claremont; not quite the same...), which was awesome. We had a good turnout (you know, considering Hawaii) for both the panel I was chairing and the panel I was on (paper on Celtic fairylands and displaced meaning...a very old paper because I had no time to write something new, but well-received, I thought). And I will be taking over (back) the Medieval Literature Area next year, while the current ML chair will be taking over my Old English area. Lovely!
What else, what else...my article on Neil Gaiman & Beowulf is out this week in the inaugural issue of S.T. Joshi's Weird Fiction Review. I should be getting my copy today or tomorrow. *wants* The Welsh myth book is almost done. Indexing is a pain.
I'm teaching discussion sections of English 20A this quarter, if I haven't mentioned that already. All of British Literature in ten weeks! Death by reading! But I was happy to get "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" for my guest lecture. Magic, beheadings, effeminate knights, ominous landscapes...tons o'fun.
I am looking up how to make a mint chocolate chip pie. It must require minimal actual cooking effort on my part, and easily attainable ingredients.
Happy pre-Thanksgiving--I know Thanksgiving as such is not necessarily PC these days, but I'm choosing to think of it as simply a day of appreciation for friends and family. :-)
I just got back from the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference in Hawaii (next year, Claremont; not quite the same...), which was awesome. We had a good turnout (you know, considering Hawaii) for both the panel I was chairing and the panel I was on (paper on Celtic fairylands and displaced meaning...a very old paper because I had no time to write something new, but well-received, I thought). And I will be taking over (back) the Medieval Literature Area next year, while the current ML chair will be taking over my Old English area. Lovely!
What else, what else...my article on Neil Gaiman & Beowulf is out this week in the inaugural issue of S.T. Joshi's Weird Fiction Review. I should be getting my copy today or tomorrow. *wants* The Welsh myth book is almost done. Indexing is a pain.
I'm teaching discussion sections of English 20A this quarter, if I haven't mentioned that already. All of British Literature in ten weeks! Death by reading! But I was happy to get "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" for my guest lecture. Magic, beheadings, effeminate knights, ominous landscapes...tons o'fun.
I am looking up how to make a mint chocolate chip pie. It must require minimal actual cooking effort on my part, and easily attainable ingredients.
Happy pre-Thanksgiving--I know Thanksgiving as such is not necessarily PC these days, but I'm choosing to think of it as simply a day of appreciation for friends and family. :-)