BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

What is this? Since when does it stay so freaking cold in Nashville? ARGH. And the snow predicted for tomorrow night is supposed to accumulate up to 4" and hang around through the weekend. BAH HUMBUG.

However, as long as it's gone from the interstate by the time I head back to school this weekend, I guess I can deal. While complaining loudly, anyway. Knoxville had better be warmer.

(Ooof. Speaking of school, I should get on that whole "developing an argument for the fourth chapter of my thesis" I had plans for this week. My advisor suggested something to do with the metaphor at the end of Bishop's "At the Fish Houses" for a starting point of comparison, which seems as good as any. He also suggested looking at essays by Lyn Hejinian, which I have not quite gotten around to yet. My other thought is that this is a.) a chapter about language, and b.) the last chapter, and maybe I can just chuck the theoretical background and do close readings of Boland's language until a point emerges. This seems a bit like cheating, though. I need to go back through my notes in Zotero.)

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A hilarious video I found on YouTube last night: What if George Lucas restored Singin' in the Rain?

Reading list

The booklist for my course next semester has finally been posted. Hurrah! I'm taking a seminar on Modernism, which is made of yay. The texts are intriguingly non-traditional, which is even more yay. The only things I'll be reading again are Picture of Dorian Gray (okay, but I just did it last spring, and it seems unfair to me that it should feature in the Victorian and the Modernism classes when our Irish representative could've been Joyce and thus a thousand times more awesome!), Heart of Darkness (mmm), and Mrs. Dalloway (\O/!). The last two are on the orals reading list, so that'll be useful, even though I reread both of them this past spring.

Other fiction includes Rhys's Voyage in the Dark (I've been meaning to read something by Rhys for a while now, so yay!), Lawrence's Virgin and the Gypsy, Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, stories by Katherine Mansfield, and Blast 1.

Theorywise, a book called The Gender of Modernity is on the list, to which I say \O/ again, seeing as my essays always wander off into feminist criticism anyway. We're also reading Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, which strikes me as a useful book to have under my belt in general.

Undoubtedly this will be the most difficult class I've taken, but I think it'll be worth it.