SNOW DAY PLZKTHX
Dec. 18th, 2008 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gogmagogWelp, gave my presentation and it was the best of the bunch (mostly because of the other two, which were history, one was all "here's some neat data! Argument? What's an argument?" and the other was basically advocating building a medieval village in a knockoff of Second Life as a pedagogical tool).
Afterwards, went to the Sanctuary (a local pub) with the only one of my profs who attended the presentation and the only other English grad medievalist to attend it, where we attempted (and somewhat failed) at coming up with an Old English poem parodying the opening of Beowulf for the Medieval Association of the Midwest program in 2010. (It's a lot harder translating from English to OE than vice versa, since there aren't too many English -> Old English dictionaries out there, not to mention thesauruses.) Then his wife joined us, who seems super-nice and is a medievalist in the Spanish department (and was the one who set said presentation up).
When we left, that predicted ice storm had started, which was TOTAL CRAP. But now I'm home, toasty warm, and hoping my final for tomorrow morning is cancelled due to weather, so that way I don't have to leave my apartment (since we're supposed to get a tenth to a third of an inch of ice followed by three to seven inches of snow by tomorrow morning).
Now I have to grade moar, and all I can say is, bleah.
Afterwards, went to the Sanctuary (a local pub) with the only one of my profs who attended the presentation and the only other English grad medievalist to attend it, where we attempted (and somewhat failed) at coming up with an Old English poem parodying the opening of Beowulf for the Medieval Association of the Midwest program in 2010. (It's a lot harder translating from English to OE than vice versa, since there aren't too many English -> Old English dictionaries out there, not to mention thesauruses.) Then his wife joined us, who seems super-nice and is a medievalist in the Spanish department (and was the one who set said presentation up).
When we left, that predicted ice storm had started, which was TOTAL CRAP. But now I'm home, toasty warm, and hoping my final for tomorrow morning is cancelled due to weather, so that way I don't have to leave my apartment (since we're supposed to get a tenth to a third of an inch of ice followed by three to seven inches of snow by tomorrow morning).
Now I have to grade moar, and all I can say is, bleah.
