quote of the day
“Angelina Jolie is doing philology!!! Angelina Jolie is doing philology naked!!!”
:/
I’d just like to go on record as saying this:
When I thought I had no time in my MA program, taking one or two classes, teaching two classes, and writing my thesis, I was a fool.
Now I really know what it’s like to have no time.
Which means that in the tiny part of my brain that is not occupied with the sexuality of Milton’s angels, the use of grave goods as gifts in A-S England, the mutable spectre of Weland the Smith in A-S literature, and the figure of the animal in Beckett’s earlier prose as a mediator between human beings (the topics of my final research projects for my FOUR CLASSES), I am thinking:
OMG I coulda been so much more productive during my MA program (had I only realized that you can in fact exist without a social life, a sex life, any down time, more than six hours of sleep a night, seeing your family at holidays, taking your child *anywhere* except to the grocery store, and/or ever ever ever being caught up with the reading).
So it’s funny that I used to complain about never having any time yet I found all that time to babble on in this blog about socks, the Army, and Malory’s werewolf knight. I’m hoping to have something interesting to babble about ref. the Second Shepherds’ Play later in December, and maybe even something interesting to say about gift exchange theory redux sometime soon (like maybe by when my paper is due), but I am afraid that the long-awaited review of the new Beowulf movie is just going to have to wait until the week between the end of next summer’s term and start of next fall’s.
Yay grad school.
