Yay! Preliminary thesis angst was all in vain. I'm good to go now: ENG 395: Stoppard Independent Study w/ MJSalter.

*dances*

Also, I totally told David Sedaris about my thesis. *dies*

I can't write coherently about Mr. Sedaris. It was a long, amusing evening. Chapin was totally packed, which rocks for sponsors WFCR (yeah, public radio!). I ( Read more... )

So I finally decide that I really would like to write a thesis. No, really: it's clear that I can talk and think about Stoppard's plays for hours on end, and it's simply too good an opportunity to pass up. During the first half of my seminar this afternoon, I'm seized by inspiration: write about Wilde in Stoppard (or Wildean Stoppard, and a bit of ( Read more... )

For once, I'm being serious: the past two days of reading have been utterly wonderful and downright exciting.

( Yeah, you heard me. )

Oh dear. We all know how simple this Tom Stoppard paper is supposed to be: choose a passage from Hamlet, discuss how Stoppard uses it in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Easy-peasy ( Read more... )