Gee thanks, SparkNotes 2009 Everyday Shakespeare Calendar! I could not possibly have figured out what "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" meant without you ( Read more... )

This picture just made me happy on a rather glum day.

http://davidtennant.albumpost.com/album193/aaa

David Tennant as Touchstone.

...Which is to say, I finally finished watching Slings & Arrows. Season three was definitely my favorite ( Read more... )

Dear other people teaching for this class,

Okay, I get it, you don't like As You Like It. You can really stop telling me that now. Because we've had this conversation a lot of times in the last couple of years, and at this point, you're just doing it to bait me. (Seriously, one of them actually did the whole "ooh, them's fightin' words!" thing.) I ( Read more... )

...during which you don't have internet access is that you frequently just forget to check email, blogs, or LJ, because you've just gotten out of the habit. I went two days just sitting around, completely forgetting that people might need to get in touch with me or something. (It's still summer, so it's not like I have students yet or anything.) ( Read more... )

For reasons somewhat related to the class I'm teaching for, I was thinking about all the Shakespeare classes I took as an undergrad. I had been under the impression that I took four of them in four years, but it turns out that this is untrue--the last class I thought I'd taken was the usual survey course, which I'd already taken freshman year and ( Read more... )