"I think you can choose to love and what is more/That is how you survived the war"

Hurrah! I have finished my Joyce paper! Well, yes, the conclusion still needs some work, and the way I shoehorned a preview of the point I made about Emma Clery into the introduction could be more elegant, but the vast bulk of it is done, and I still think it's the best critical piece I've ever written. I would still prefer to have not had to put in the last quarter, because it's not as good as the first three quarters, but it's not bad, either. If I do revise it into a conference paper, I'm going to try hard to expand those first three quarters a bit more in order to hit what appears to be the eight-page minimum for most conferences, and dump the section on Emma.

Anyway, obviously something like that calls for...more Babylon 5. I got the last disc of S3 today, with all of its excitement.

( Shadow Dancing )

( Z'ha'dum )

S4 coming up...whenever I get another breather. The rough draft of my pedagogy paper is due in nine days (I thought I had more time than that. Crap.), and the Victorian paper on the 29th. That one's aaaaall about the new historical approach rather than the failed formalism of my earlier papers for this class (well, failed in the sense that I still got a good grade, I knew they were crap), so perhaps it will go easier. I do know a bit about Victorian history, after all.

Oh, and there's grading in there as well. Gotta remember to do that this weekend...

Images from my nightmares

1. This has not been Photoshopped.

Yes, it is a giant crab. A CRAB AS BIG AS THE TRASH CAN IT'S CLINGING TO. A LAND-CRAB.

2. Not a perspective trick.

Yes, the sea worm is four feet long. It digested hooks they tried to catch it with.

3. Giant Water Bug, via Wikipedia.

GAH.

Sweet dreams, everyone.

GIP

I finally have a Marcus icon!

...Of a sort. *g*

Right. Ulysses and grading. Back to work...