Weekend to Do List

1. Grocery shopping for I'm out of everything. Including wine.
2. Go the mall and pick up shirts to wear under some of longer sleeved shirts.
3. Clean: take out trash, vacuum, swifter floors
4. Do laundry which involved putting laundry away
5. Work on paper
6. Work on Latin
7. Make a dinner, as in actually making it not taking it from the freezer and putting it in the microwave.
8. Bathe cats.

Campus Frustrations

I'm frustrated as hell with my University at the moment. We have some great medievalists in the English department and we have a Medieval Studies MA in the English department(or so it seems but good luck finding clear info on it). We don't have a Medieval Studies program for undergrads. We don't have any clear support system for Medievalist in training or those even interested in it. I only know about our Society for Renaissance and Medieval studies because I was searching to make sure there wasn't already a Medieval club before I started getting paper work together.

You don't know who to talk to either for advice, and until this year the History department was devoid of Medievalists. So who do you talk to? The Chaucerian? The Anglo-Saxonist? The random Medievalist grad student that assures you there are lots of Medievalists floating about and tells you about all these great graduate classes?

How many undergrads are losing out because they don't know where to look or how to talk to? If I hadn't taken any upper level English classes I wouldn't know half of what I do about those to talk to on campus. Shouldn't out advisers be pointing students in the direction of faculty to talk to and actually advising us based on our goals? Shouldn't the enrollment system keep Freshmen out of upper level seminar classes? (Whoops different rant).

I'm still going to try and put together the Medieval Club, since the SRMS isn't a 'student' organization (and seems to be many grad students but they don't even make it clear what the requirements to join are). I want other students interested in becoming Medievalists to have the feeling of not being alone, whether they come from the History or English side of it. I want to get my fellow students interested in the subject. It's going to be a hell of alot of work, and I'm insane for doing it with everything else I have on my plate (including being in the Classics Club).

Tonight I plan nothing more ambitious than buying a bottle of wine and ordering in Indian. And if I do anything more than write my paper and watching Dresden Files this weekend, I'll be shocked.

Do to list

Things I need to do today:
1. Put laundry away.
2. Take books to Half Price books.
3. Pay bills
4. Go to the store for more Vitamin water and milk.
5. Work on Latin Homework/Study for Latin Quiz

Oh what a interesting life I lead.

Delurking day!

Come delurk! Even if it is just to say hi.

Dear fellow Latin students,

Dear "know it all",
Please stop trying to impress the Professor with how smart you are. Not only is it annoying to your fellow students, but it also makes the fact that you haven't learned a single thing all year painfully obvious.

Sunt was on our last test. You should know what that means but now and that its not 3rd person future. You consistently ask questions that the Professor has just finished answering, or re-state what he just said as if it was a grand Revelation.

No love,
Me

Dear "its a imposition that I'm here so make it easier on me",

I'm frankly sick of your tone of voice when the Professor asks you a question or, heaven forbid, asks you to translate a sentence from our homework. Stop acting like he's picking on you or asking such a horrible thing. You oblivious don't care about learning Latin from the way you act and I'm really sick of hearing your snide comments under your breath.

By the way? Just because your older than the Professor doesn't mean you get to ask in a put out voice when he's going to put the lecture online. Really, you sound like a spoiled teenager.

Also no love,
Me

Randomly: I'm in the library at school and a seirn is going off outside. Most people aren't even looking up.

Alan Rickman reading Sonnet 130

From Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books -- Alan Rickman reads Sonnet 130.

Monday Update

(Real original title they, huh?)

I did what many of you suggested and acted like nothing had happened in class. Only the kick-ass British lady and girl that sits next to me, mentioned anything, but mostly to say they were glad I was okay and feeling better etc, and no to worry about it. The young man who (according to the Prof and girl that sits next to me) made a comment and seemed to find it all the funnest wasn't even in class today.

So things went well in that class even if we are behind a bit. I really hope we have time to do justice to the Hospitlars and Templars, and still get everything done that we need to. I can't wait to start on the second Crusade, even though I know we won't spent as much time on Eleanor of Aquitaine as I would like.

Latin let out early today, much to my disappointment. I never thought I'd love a language or enjoy translating this much. I'm currently reading Cat in the Hat in Latin and hopefully will be able to tackle the Harry Potter books at some point in the near future.

Sadly the medieval Latin course that my Prof was pushing for will not happen in Spring even though he had ten of us interested. I hope to that the school will A) keep him, B) let him teach Medieval Latin next fall.

Maybe Old English will be taught in spring this year, though. That would be lovely.