There is a very annoying bird singing outside. At three AM. That doesn't seem quite right.

I did manage to finish reading the Milton criticism I was working on, and now am trying to finish with Tamburlaine before I go to bed. You see how well that's going. (On the one hand, I really want to go to bed, and on the other, I'm not really sleepy at all ( Read more... )

Dear self:

Remember how you were stressing out all weekend about exams and vowing to stay offline in order to study? Kindly step away from the computer and go read your Milton criticism like a good little graduate student who has EXAMS IN THREE WEEKS.

No love,
Lea

I got absolutely nothing done today, and now that it's 1:30(ish) and I have class tomorrow morning that's unlikely to change. I don't feel quite as bad about this as I probably ought to, since I did a fair deal of reading yesterday, though sadly enough no Elyot, and I really need to get that stupid book finished ( Read more... )

I will be a very, very happy person once I've finally finished Elyot, because he has begun to bore me silly. Every chapter goes along much the same lines, viz ( Read more... )

So last night I went to sleep right after reading The True Law of Free Monarchies and it caused me to dream weird things. Except I don't remember exactly what they were. I have the vague sense Milton was somehow involved. *is alarmed*

(The True Law was an odd read, incidentally, since I'd not read it before, yet pretty much everything in it was ( Read more... )

I have finished my reread of Paradise Lost. I am quite pleased with myself.

Even though I still need to finish off Civil Wars (one more book to go) and read a whole mess of pages in Elyot, whom I have been neglecting once again, which is bad because I don't remember what he was talking about when I left off. And probably I should start on ( Read more... )

...I presume we can assume the obvious Ophelia reference to have been made, right? ;)

Mostly I just wanted to show off this icon, because it makes me ridiculously happy.

Right, then. Must go back to rereading Paradise Lost. It's remarkable how frustrating it is that all the office-supply stores close early on Sunday, so that I cannot get pens ( Read more... )

Assuming that by "too much" we mean "not enough."

I did manage to finish Astrophil and Stella. Go me! But I should be reading Spenser or Elyot now. Instead, I updated the Evil Shakespeare Overlord List. I really ought to have gone to the library today and studied there, but I didn't feel like changing out of my pajamas. I shall go tomorrow, ( Read more... )

I have finished the Sonnets. I am insufferably pleased with myself, as it gives me another thing to cross off the list, though I'll definitely want to look at them again before Thursday as the whole sequence has coalesced in my head as one big self-loathing soup.

Cannot decide if I should go back to Elyot now, read some Sidney, or reread ( Read more... )

I had every intention yesterday of studying diligently today, and sadly, it did not happen. I didn't feel too bad about that, as I really needed a mental health day, except that now I sort of do. No doubt I shall be shaken by pangs of guilt at about four in the morning and read five or six chapters of Elyot. On the other hand, though, I feel much ( Read more... )