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I see I shall have to dig out my academic icons again soon...

Okay then! I just went and screwed around with my schedule for fall 2009, dropping some classes I was no longer interested in and one for which I wouldn't recieve credit for my major, and my schedule now looks like this:

ASTJ 203: Intermediate Japanese I (my last Japanese class ever)
CLAS 220 (H): Ancient Christianity (replacing CLAS 210 Intro to the Hebrew Bible)
ENLS 436: Antebellum American Literature (replacing ENLS 361 Creative Writing)
GESS 290: Inro to Gender and Sexuality Studies
GESS 289: 20 Hours Public Service component of GESS 290 (Tulane requires 20 hours of public service for freshmen and sophomores)
HISE 391 (H): The Russian Revolution (replacing COLQ 401 History of Voodoo; this was the one where I wouldn't get history credit)
JWST 322: Arab/Israeli Conflict

If you can't tell, I'm a liberal arts major. *grin* I haven't decided yet whether I'm going to major in English, history, or classical studies -- or some combination of the three; most likely is English and history with a classical studies minor -- but I'm trying to cover all my bases. Japanese 203 fills my last semester of foreign language, Into Gender Sexuality covers my public service component (I have to do another 20 hours junior and senior year), and Arab/Israeli Conflict fills the Comparative Cultures and International Perspectives requirement. I feel very practical. *beams*

Most days of the week I have three classes, most of them actually at the same time -- 9:30, 12:00, and 2:00 without a 12:00 class on Tuesdays but with a 3:30 lecture (Russian Revolution) -- except on Fridays, when I have no 9:30 and can thus sleep in until I have to go off for my noon Japanese class. Yay! Which means that I can go to Fridays at Newcomb, which starts at 1:00, and get actual food, and then get done at 3:00 and go off to Borders or...something of the sort; I have to get an on-campus job this year because tuition went up and my financial aid went down. THANKS A LOT TULANE.

Granted, I'll probably never be able to get an actual job in the real world, but maybe I'll write some interesting books...after I finish paying off the twenty I have to get this semester. (WHY? WHY? Last semester I had just shy of 30 books, this semester looks like it's going to give last semester a run for its money.)

thoughts while watching LotR: FotR for the ten millionth time

Also this week we have watched Sharpe's Eagle and Sharpe's Company, starring Sean Bean, which leads my father to remark during the council scene, "He looks like he'd rather be back in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon might have been tough, but he wasn't pure evil like Sauron! And the French aren't orcs!"

I remember there was a lot of criticism of Orlando Bloom's Legolas (who I really like, by the way) when LotR first came out (and oh, but I have memories of going to see LotR in theatres!), but if you give culture shock -- dealing with humans! and dwarves! and hobbits! probably for the first time in his life, unless you count the time the dwarves got taken prisoner by Thranduil in The Hobbit -- his character portrayal makes a lot more sense. Of course he hangs out with Aragorn a lot; Aragorn was raised by elves, so they're practically of the same species.

It may be the Sharpe thing bleeding over, but I found myself liking Boromir a lot more this time, and I couldn't put my finger on why until the last scene, where Boromir's blowing his horn, and then I knew:

Basically, Boromir is Susan Pevensie.

Or, shall I say, Boromir is Susan redeemed. Both of them are the only two characters to doubt and fall (and one can argue this in LotR, but the situation further on in the trilogy is slightly different), but unlike Susan, Boromir manages to redeem himself in the end. Susan just falls -- diminishes, and goes into the West, and remains Susan Pevensie. To, uh, mix characters in LotR. The rest of them rise to glory; she and Boromir fall.

Also, both of them have horns. There's something here that I can't quite put my finger on yet. *muses* (Perhaps my senior honors thesis can be on similarities in post-War British fantasy literature, hmm?)