OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW

Seriously, I have waited for a remake of this game (which presumably will get a US translation this time around) for a decade, no lie. It is my favorite videogame of all time. I've often said that I wanted a remake/rerelease of this game and Tactics Ogre, and now they're both coming up ( Read more... )

Finally sent off the prospectus for my dissertation to my committee, and will be going in later today to photocopy a hard copy for them. WOOHOO! It took a year to come to fruition, but it's finally here ( Read more... )

Just finished the newest Harry Dresden book by Jim Butcher, Changes...and it was totally awesome, as expected, but wow the author REALLY wasn't lying when he said this was the book that changes everything (as per the title). Also HOLY CLIFFHANGER ENDING BATMAN WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Also why is no one else I know reading these books, sobAlso I have ( Read more... )

Okay, today I got the best academic book EVER through Interlibrary Loan. It is entitled On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages. (I decided to do one of my five questions for my comps exam on good and bad medieval smells, and my historical list commitee member recommended that I look at this book to help answer that question ( Read more... )

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ
Moves on; nor all thy Piety nor thy Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
-- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGeraldUnfortunately, my problem is that my finger is not moving, or at least not for the right reasons; I'm having a ridiculous ( Read more... )

Sometimes I love research. Like today: when looking for a good scholarly article to pair with Grettis saga for the medieval monstrosity syllabus for my comps portfolio, I discovered an article entitled, "Size Matters: Penile Problems in Sagas of Icelanders." I kind of want to read this now. XD ( Read more... )

Hmmm, after listening to a lot of Higurashi music lately, I suppose I should catch up on it; I'm fairly certain I haven't been getting 100% of my recommended daily allowance of killer lolis, after all ( Read more... )

Today I made a sort of interesting scholarly discovery, which was new to me if to no one else.

( Cut to spare any of y'all who don't want to read about giants, the Tower of Babel and general medievally monstrolicious awesomeness )

Wow, yesterday the UI sent out safety guidelines in case of an active shooter (presumably in response to Virginia Tech and NIU). They know whereof they speak - the UI had a set of shootings back in '93, which decimated the Physics department (you can read an essay with a little more detail here, written by Jo Ann Beard, a Nonfiction Writing Program ( Read more... )

Well, just finished my first day teaching Gen Ed Lit and am sitting in my new office holding office hours (which I'm sure no one will come to the first day). My students all seem like nice kids, and the class in general went as well as I could really have hoped. Though I would have been pissed if it hadn't, since I dressed up for today - even wore ( Read more... )