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gogmagogYesterday was one of Those Days. You know, the days where everything seems to go kinda wrong? Things like accidentally dumping most of a jar of spaghetti sauce over your khaki pants, and the changing and cleanup taking enough time that you don't actually have a chance to eat the supper you just made before zooming off late to class? Or forgetting half of your homework at home because you were in said hurry? Yeah, one of THOSE days.
Also, I forgot that yesterday evening was the Ph.D. Comics talk and I missed it! (I was going to ask a few days ago to leave calligraphy class early for it but forgot.) Crap, and I wanted to go to that, too...KURSES. D:
And for some reason I keep having dreams where I'm removing thorns that look like nails (or possibly nails that look like thorns) that are embedded in my flesh. D:
...On the plus side, today I spent twenty minutes sitting in my warm apartment, listening to peaceful music and just looking out at the snow falling. So I feel quite calm and productive now.
Okay, so I took a look on ISIS and found that my options for the summer are more limited than I thought. Apparently Japanese is not offered in the summer, and the only graduate English classes this summer are Kathleen Diffley's paper workshop and Lori Branch's Wordsworth class, so it looks like I'll be taking either Latin or the Italic/Copperplate calligraphy class. (I don't mind Wordsworth, but I do not want to do an entire class on him, let alone one for the three weeks IMMEDIATELY after finals during which I'd have to turn in three 6-page papers. And I was planning on going home during that period anyway.)
As for fall, I'll only be taking two classes, probably, because I'll also be teaching two (I think) sections of Rhetoric. One of those classes will pretty definitely be the Victorian periodicals seminar with Teresa Mangum. (Which should get my second seminar requirement out of the way, so w00t w00t and all that.) Garrett Stewart, the other of the big three Victorianists (along with Teresa and Florence Boos, who I'm taking a class from this semester) is offering a "Literature as Letters" class, but there's no description yet. And I'm kind of scared to take it not knowing what it is, especially because I know he's also into a lot of theory and narrative stuff (and I try to avoid a surfeit of theory whenever possible). Claire Sponsler's readings course in medieval literature and culture sounds fun, so I may take that.
As for Japanese, they don't have an accelerated Japanese course the way they do Latin. They do have a course that covers the entire first year, but it says that "this course is designed for students with previous study of Japanese. Students should know all of the syllabaries prior to taking this course." So does that mean as long as I know katakana and hiragana (which I do), it should be okay? Or should I have more, given that I've never had formal study of Japanese before (all self-taught)? I need to e-mail the department and ask, I guess.
In history, there's a graduate class on medieval Latin paleography that looks interesting. There's also one on Reformation culture and theology, but an entire class on John Calvin (which is what it sounds from the description like it would be like) sounds less than fun. D:
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Let's Positive Linking!
- Some interesting, and slightly disturbing, information about MySpace.
- An interesting study about how children's temperament can affect their future political leanings. ...Man, Bill O'Reilly must have been a TERROR as a baby. XD
- Geez, why does stuff like this never happen at MY university library? A very amusing movie file showing a homage to a classic video game.
- Judge orders horse be given Viagra. I believe that speaks for itself.
- Statue of Britney Spears giving birth new pro-life monument. Except, of course, she delivered Sean Preston via C-section. (Gah, why do I KNOW these things?)
- Las Vegas slots are better regulated than voting machines. (Fromgedrean.) Of course, probably a lot more people actually USE the slots than vote. D:
- ZOMBIES ZOMBIES LALALA. (Fromjokersama.) It's hypnotizing!
- Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi greets a traffic cop...enthusiastically. (Fromjantalaimon.) Otherwise known as pulling a "Hard Gay." XD
- An interesting article on the "intelligent design" debate. (Fromnaruto_nerd.) But what really struck me in this article was this sentence: In a country where over 80% of the population identifies as Christian and over half of the population rejects evolution, sending the message that a person can be science-positive and a good Christian is a noble tactic.
"Over half the population of the U.S. rejects evolution"? I want to say that statistic CAN'T be true, but, well... D:
...god, sometimes I hate this country. D:
Also, I forgot that yesterday evening was the Ph.D. Comics talk and I missed it! (I was going to ask a few days ago to leave calligraphy class early for it but forgot.) Crap, and I wanted to go to that, too...KURSES. D:
And for some reason I keep having dreams where I'm removing thorns that look like nails (or possibly nails that look like thorns) that are embedded in my flesh. D:
...On the plus side, today I spent twenty minutes sitting in my warm apartment, listening to peaceful music and just looking out at the snow falling. So I feel quite calm and productive now.
Okay, so I took a look on ISIS and found that my options for the summer are more limited than I thought. Apparently Japanese is not offered in the summer, and the only graduate English classes this summer are Kathleen Diffley's paper workshop and Lori Branch's Wordsworth class, so it looks like I'll be taking either Latin or the Italic/Copperplate calligraphy class. (I don't mind Wordsworth, but I do not want to do an entire class on him, let alone one for the three weeks IMMEDIATELY after finals during which I'd have to turn in three 6-page papers. And I was planning on going home during that period anyway.)
As for fall, I'll only be taking two classes, probably, because I'll also be teaching two (I think) sections of Rhetoric. One of those classes will pretty definitely be the Victorian periodicals seminar with Teresa Mangum. (Which should get my second seminar requirement out of the way, so w00t w00t and all that.) Garrett Stewart, the other of the big three Victorianists (along with Teresa and Florence Boos, who I'm taking a class from this semester) is offering a "Literature as Letters" class, but there's no description yet. And I'm kind of scared to take it not knowing what it is, especially because I know he's also into a lot of theory and narrative stuff (and I try to avoid a surfeit of theory whenever possible). Claire Sponsler's readings course in medieval literature and culture sounds fun, so I may take that.
As for Japanese, they don't have an accelerated Japanese course the way they do Latin. They do have a course that covers the entire first year, but it says that "this course is designed for students with previous study of Japanese. Students should know all of the syllabaries prior to taking this course." So does that mean as long as I know katakana and hiragana (which I do), it should be okay? Or should I have more, given that I've never had formal study of Japanese before (all self-taught)? I need to e-mail the department and ask, I guess.
In history, there's a graduate class on medieval Latin paleography that looks interesting. There's also one on Reformation culture and theology, but an entire class on John Calvin (which is what it sounds from the description like it would be like) sounds less than fun. D:
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vaulted_eel:Let's Positive Linking!
- Some interesting, and slightly disturbing, information about MySpace.
- An interesting study about how children's temperament can affect their future political leanings. ...Man, Bill O'Reilly must have been a TERROR as a baby. XD
- Geez, why does stuff like this never happen at MY university library? A very amusing movie file showing a homage to a classic video game.
- Judge orders horse be given Viagra. I believe that speaks for itself.
- Statue of Britney Spears giving birth new pro-life monument. Except, of course, she delivered Sean Preston via C-section. (Gah, why do I KNOW these things?)
- Las Vegas slots are better regulated than voting machines. (From
gedrean.) Of course, probably a lot more people actually USE the slots than vote. D:- ZOMBIES ZOMBIES LALALA. (From
jokersama.) It's hypnotizing!- Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi greets a traffic cop...enthusiastically. (From
jantalaimon.) Otherwise known as pulling a "Hard Gay." XD- An interesting article on the "intelligent design" debate. (From
naruto_nerd.) But what really struck me in this article was this sentence: In a country where over 80% of the population identifies as Christian and over half of the population rejects evolution, sending the message that a person can be science-positive and a good Christian is a noble tactic."Over half the population of the U.S. rejects evolution"? I want to say that statistic CAN'T be true, but, well... D:
...god, sometimes I hate this country. D:
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Date: 2006-03-24 09:52 pm (UTC)OMG PACMAN ATTACK XD XD. Dammit, they need to do a Cloud vs Seph epic battle now XP.
And you're right, I still can't get over the fact that THAT many people reject evolution...maybe it's growing up in a science-oriented family and pretty much giving up religion because of the apparent contradiction between creationism and evolution, but I still can't wrap my mind around the numbers X_X.
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Date: 2006-03-24 11:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-03-24 11:24 pm (UTC)...seriously, MOST TASTELESS piece of "art" ever. I can't imagine even conservatives would be down with Britney as a role model of "moral" behavior, given her 72-hour joke marriage, but maybe so. XD
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Date: 2006-03-25 01:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-03-25 06:20 am (UTC)(And I post about these things as I hear about them, so that's why they can occasionally be a little behind the times. Especially because I've been saving up links for like 4 days.)
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Date: 2006-03-25 01:46 pm (UTC)