*whines*

[icepixie]

Don't ask why, but I was looking at the course catalogue for this year. I found that Klein is currently teaching the "History of the English Language" course that I would have taken during fall semester last year, except that he changed it to a weird course on "Dialects of English," so I switched to Anglo-Saxon. ARRRGGHHHHHHHH, I HATE YOU, KLEIN, I HATE YOU!!!!! (Except I don't really, because you're Klein and I couldn't hate you if I tried, but...ARGH!)

AND Kinzer is offering the Victorian Culture seminar this semester. Which I also wanted to take last year. GAAAAHHH!!! WHY DID I GRADUATE?!?!?

Bah.

You scored as Viennese Waltz. You are Viennese Waltz! Elegant and exhilarating, you are more fun than a barrel of really dizzy monkeys. You love merry-go-rounds, tire swings, and those office chairs that spin around. When you walk into a room everyone goes “Ooooh!” and “Aaaah!” and wishes they could be as awesome as you. </td> Viennese Waltz 92% Foxtrot 92% Jive 75% Quickstep 58% ChaCha 50% PasoDolble 42% Samba 33% Rumba 25% Waltz 17% Tango 17% Which ballroom dance are you? created with QuizFarm.com

I rule!

(Actually, Viennese is tied with American Rumba for my least favorite dance to actually do, although I love watching competent people perform it.)

Comments

[aervir.livejournal.com]

Heh. Don't worry: Frustration over missed course plan opportunities seem to happen all the time. Of course, my English department decided to offer both a reading class and a lecture on Ulysses (a book I simply can't make it through on my own) when I went abroad to study in the UK for an academic year (where there weren't any Ulysses courses at the moment). Grrr.

[icepixie]

It is irritating, though. Sigh.

My Irish Lit professor held a marathon reading of Ulysses during my second year. It lasted twenty-six hours. I managed to be there for about a third of it. Enough to get the general gist, anyway... ;)

[aervir.livejournal.com]

We had a similar event for Bloomsday 2004, but I only stayed for one chapter (I think it was number 9, the chapter about Hamlet). And after those Bloomsday parties, I came to the conclusion that those Joycians must be a bit crazy. :)

[icepixie]

(I love your icon!)

Joyceans are kinda nuts. *g* I think I was there for Chapter 9, but I'm not totally sure. I remember I was definitely there for an early chapter in the graveyard, 'cause we traipsed over to the college graveyard and read it there...

[aervir.livejournal.com]

(Thank you! It always feels very appropriate for my choice of reading matter. :D)

And yes, they definitely are. I once witnessed an elderly professor of literature becoming almost ecstatic while recounting an experiment at a Joycian Bloomsday conference to reenact the "Wandering Rocks" chapter by following the same routes through the city of Dublin...

Graveyard chapter? That must be Leopold Bloom going to some funeral, I think (chapter five? six? probably "Hades" in the interpretative scheme?).

[icepixie]

(Hehehe. Same here.)

I think it involved a funeral. I honestly don't remember much of it, because I've never read the whole thing, and I don't retain things that are read out loud to me as well as I do when I read it myself.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I did read the whole thing, albeit in German, but I still didn't retain very much of it, as I didn't have a clue of what was going on (apart from people wandering through Dublin, that is)... :(

[vallentine.livejournal.com]

So many classes I wish I'd taken. So many I wish I'd had the opportunity to take. So many I wish I hadn't had to take (Shakespeare with Sergei for one) but must move on.
Do wish I could take some classes just for the joy of taking classes.

[icepixie]

I kind of want to go audit something at Vanderbilt or Belmont, just because.