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Well, I'm on track I think to have my scheduled 10 annotations for my special interest list done by Friday, when I need to send them to my special interest area advisor (originally I thought it was Wednesday, and it made me ridiculously glad to discover I was wrong). After that I have another ten scheduled every three weeks or so until the end of the semester, which will probably make me want to kill myself given that I also need to have a proper final second draft of my comps article done and in to my article advisor by the 10th.
On top of that, although I was planning on saving my historical list for next semester (since I don't actually have to write anything or turn anything in about them, and I won't have anything else to do comps-wise in the spring until I actually take my comps in April), my historical list advisor wants to meet with me every few weeks to discuss 2-3 of the readings on said list (since he's going to be gone for all of next semester except for a week, during which I and the other two medievalists comping in the spring will all be doing our comps). This would not normally be a huge deal, except a lot of the medieval stuff I have on my list is FREAKING LONG (like the Canterbury Tales, which counts as one text on my historical list; most of them I've read in various classes, but I'm gonna have to reread most of it if not the entire thing before comps). And the discussions tend to be kind of brutal, because I'm still getting used to actually having to be on the spot to say intelligent and cohesive things about my reading (as opposed to classes, where I can just swoop in when I have something smart to say and just listen the rest of the time).
On the other hand, I may be able to space out the meetings a bit longer than my advisor would perhaps like, just because some of the more obscure texts I have to order off Amazon and they usually take like 3 weeks to get here; I'm currently waiting on an edition of Layamon's Brut to ship from Amazon so I can read it for our next meeting, which probably should be this week but I'm sure will end up being next week or the week after so I can include Layamon in our discussion. (This will incidentally give me time to finish my annotations and start work on the paper before I need to start on the reading, which is fortunate for me.)
In case any of you were mildly interested in what medieval lit I've been reading from my historical list, the other two things I need to have read by my next meeting with my historical list advisor are St. Erkenwald, which is thankfully quite short, and the Queste del Saint Graal, which is unfortunately not really. And for our last meeting I read the Alliterative Morte Arthure, which I'd read before not too long ago, and Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, which I'd been reading on and off since the beginning of the summer.
Add to this my teaching, my Old English reading group (which requires most of what little free time I have on Wednesdays), and the fact that my six hours a week in the Speaking Center are generally more insanely busy and in demand than they ever have been before (hence giving me no time to get any work done then), and I'm starting to worry. But hey, I work best under pressure...right?
On the plus side, I was actually able to come in to campus today, and have been only occasionally sniffly...perhaps I'm finally coming out the other side of this whole bug. God bless guaifenesin!
On top of that, although I was planning on saving my historical list for next semester (since I don't actually have to write anything or turn anything in about them, and I won't have anything else to do comps-wise in the spring until I actually take my comps in April), my historical list advisor wants to meet with me every few weeks to discuss 2-3 of the readings on said list (since he's going to be gone for all of next semester except for a week, during which I and the other two medievalists comping in the spring will all be doing our comps). This would not normally be a huge deal, except a lot of the medieval stuff I have on my list is FREAKING LONG (like the Canterbury Tales, which counts as one text on my historical list; most of them I've read in various classes, but I'm gonna have to reread most of it if not the entire thing before comps). And the discussions tend to be kind of brutal, because I'm still getting used to actually having to be on the spot to say intelligent and cohesive things about my reading (as opposed to classes, where I can just swoop in when I have something smart to say and just listen the rest of the time).
On the other hand, I may be able to space out the meetings a bit longer than my advisor would perhaps like, just because some of the more obscure texts I have to order off Amazon and they usually take like 3 weeks to get here; I'm currently waiting on an edition of Layamon's Brut to ship from Amazon so I can read it for our next meeting, which probably should be this week but I'm sure will end up being next week or the week after so I can include Layamon in our discussion. (This will incidentally give me time to finish my annotations and start work on the paper before I need to start on the reading, which is fortunate for me.)
In case any of you were mildly interested in what medieval lit I've been reading from my historical list, the other two things I need to have read by my next meeting with my historical list advisor are St. Erkenwald, which is thankfully quite short, and the Queste del Saint Graal, which is unfortunately not really. And for our last meeting I read the Alliterative Morte Arthure, which I'd read before not too long ago, and Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, which I'd been reading on and off since the beginning of the summer.
Add to this my teaching, my Old English reading group (which requires most of what little free time I have on Wednesdays), and the fact that my six hours a week in the Speaking Center are generally more insanely busy and in demand than they ever have been before (hence giving me no time to get any work done then), and I'm starting to worry. But hey, I work best under pressure...right?
On the plus side, I was actually able to come in to campus today, and have been only occasionally sniffly...perhaps I'm finally coming out the other side of this whole bug. God bless guaifenesin!