Nerdly Things
Sep. 1st, 2008 10:28 pmI have spent my three-day weekend getting ahead by doing six to ten hours of reading for class each day, and I can honestly say I have rarely had a better weekend.
I am SUCH a dork.
(Although...The Faerie Queen! There are dragons and knights and magicians! You can't not love it!* And The Italian! Ann Radcliffe is so excellently melodramatic. And this was the one with the evil and crazy monks. Woot! Oh, and for my women writers reading group, we're reading Margaret Cavendish's A Description of the New World, Called the Blazing-World, which was written in the seventeenth century, but is basically a sci-fi novella. And I swear, Phillip Pullman must have read this before writing His Dark Materials--there are fighting polar bear-men, a substance that is suspciously Dust-like, and a new world through a doorway at the north pole.)
Apparently I need to be in a profession where I let my inner workaholic loose. This is good to know. Maybe grad school won't kill me after all.
Next weekend I'm going to see a student rehearsal production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). I've heard good things about the professional productions; hopefully this will be entertaining as well.
* Although I could love the editors more. I have the Hamilton edition, which is supposed to be the best, and it is undoubtedly excellent at explaining the Christian and Classical symbolism behind everything, and also at glossing the harder constructions, but I quibble with some of the omissions. I could have used a translation of "sithen" and "unghest," for example, rather than the many, many things they did gloss which were pretty obvious from context. Ah, well. The background is still excellent.
I am SUCH a dork.
(Although...The Faerie Queen! There are dragons and knights and magicians! You can't not love it!* And The Italian! Ann Radcliffe is so excellently melodramatic. And this was the one with the evil and crazy monks. Woot! Oh, and for my women writers reading group, we're reading Margaret Cavendish's A Description of the New World, Called the Blazing-World, which was written in the seventeenth century, but is basically a sci-fi novella. And I swear, Phillip Pullman must have read this before writing His Dark Materials--there are fighting polar bear-men, a substance that is suspciously Dust-like, and a new world through a doorway at the north pole.)
Apparently I need to be in a profession where I let my inner workaholic loose. This is good to know. Maybe grad school won't kill me after all.
Next weekend I'm going to see a student rehearsal production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). I've heard good things about the professional productions; hopefully this will be entertaining as well.
* Although I could love the editors more. I have the Hamilton edition, which is supposed to be the best, and it is undoubtedly excellent at explaining the Christian and Classical symbolism behind everything, and also at glossing the harder constructions, but I quibble with some of the omissions. I could have used a translation of "sithen" and "unghest," for example, rather than the many, many things they did gloss which were pretty obvious from context. Ah, well. The background is still excellent.
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