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On this day, I write an abstract. Thing #237 I Hate About Said Activity: I can give you a damn good idea of what my paper is on in about a hundred words. The rest is padding. And I despise padding.

But I am not here to bitch about my desperate attempts to break into academia. (That is for every other post.) Instead, I'm going to talk about ( Read more... )

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My medieval art history teacher is a lovely woman. She is a graduate student, and appears to be very knowledgeable in her field (secular medieval art, which promises to be delightful, once we come to it). Sure, she's a bit of a snooze, and the class is three hours and long and late at night and full of people who ask questions about why there ( Read more... )