Second semester stuff
Jan. 2nd, 2009 05:43 pmSo. I am much less broken than I was on Monday, which is undoubtedly a good thing. I can sit at the computer without screaming in agony, which means I can fiddle with LJ again. With sufficient quantities of ibuprofen, I should even be able to make the drive back to Knoxville next week by myself. Calloo-callay.
One nice thing about the Blackboard technology UT uses is that it posts your required textbooks on the site, instead of you having to go to the bookstore and look at the lists on the first day of classes along with a big crowd. (I got the impression this semester that Kenyon was technologically a bit behind the times. Someone who went to a similarly-sized liberal arts college in South Carolina had a reaction to our registration procedures that went something along the lines of, "You still use PAPER? And have to go to the REGISTRAR'S OFFICE? And STAND IN LINE to get first pick at classes in your MAJOR???") Of course, in my case, the ones for this semester only showed up yesterday, but that still gives me a couple of days head start to pick over the used bookstores.
The Joyce class is all Joyce, of course, particularly Portrait of the Artist, Dubliners, and Ulysses. I, being a fool, of course sold my copy of Portrait after McMullen's class, so I had to get a new copy without all my pretty notes. (If only I still had my notebook from that class...) A copy of The Odyssey is also required; the prof wants the Fitzgerald translation, but I already have the Lattimore. I wonder how much difference it would make. Hmmm.
Victorian lit wants lovely stuff and a bit of terrible stuff. On the great side are Vanity Fair, Jude the Obscure, a Gaskell novel, the first of Trollope's Barchester chronicles, and a fascinating-sounding Gissing novel called The Odd Women. Satire ahoy! The bad side consists of Oliver Twist (which I might like now, although I didn't when I was a young'un) and Adam Bede (of which I've heard nothing but bad).
The teaching methods class wants textbooks, of course. Blah. (I need to finish up a response for that class before I go back, too. Booooo to assignments over winter break.)
Anyway. In other news, my paid account renewed itself, and so now I have more icon spaces. I should do something about that. Preferably with Bones-related filler.
One nice thing about the Blackboard technology UT uses is that it posts your required textbooks on the site, instead of you having to go to the bookstore and look at the lists on the first day of classes along with a big crowd. (I got the impression this semester that Kenyon was technologically a bit behind the times. Someone who went to a similarly-sized liberal arts college in South Carolina had a reaction to our registration procedures that went something along the lines of, "You still use PAPER? And have to go to the REGISTRAR'S OFFICE? And STAND IN LINE to get first pick at classes in your MAJOR???") Of course, in my case, the ones for this semester only showed up yesterday, but that still gives me a couple of days head start to pick over the used bookstores.
The Joyce class is all Joyce, of course, particularly Portrait of the Artist, Dubliners, and Ulysses. I, being a fool, of course sold my copy of Portrait after McMullen's class, so I had to get a new copy without all my pretty notes. (If only I still had my notebook from that class...) A copy of The Odyssey is also required; the prof wants the Fitzgerald translation, but I already have the Lattimore. I wonder how much difference it would make. Hmmm.
Victorian lit wants lovely stuff and a bit of terrible stuff. On the great side are Vanity Fair, Jude the Obscure, a Gaskell novel, the first of Trollope's Barchester chronicles, and a fascinating-sounding Gissing novel called The Odd Women. Satire ahoy! The bad side consists of Oliver Twist (which I might like now, although I didn't when I was a young'un) and Adam Bede (of which I've heard nothing but bad).
The teaching methods class wants textbooks, of course. Blah. (I need to finish up a response for that class before I go back, too. Booooo to assignments over winter break.)
Anyway. In other news, my paid account renewed itself, and so now I have more icon spaces. I should do something about that. Preferably with Bones-related filler.
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