this class, btw, is my later medieval spain seminar

OMG. This class, or at least the reading for this class, is so relevant to my interests and I didn't even see it coming. IT IS SO RELEVANT TO TELMARINE NARNIA. IT HAS ALL THE RELEVANCE. FROM CASPIAN I TO TIRIAN.

Listen to this: ( kaleidoscopic change )

I JUST HAVE ALL THESE FEELINGS. I want to write about NAAAAAARNIAAAA. (Man, I think I posted something similar to this back in 2008, only that time, I was going through my other big Narnia theme moment -- the making of legends and identity, I think it probably had something to do with Thermopylae. Now I'm just, "I want to talk about the CONSTRUCTION OF CULTURE OUT OF HETEROGENEITY." Or...something, anyway.)

Okay, now I actually have to read the rest of the book.

what god do I need to sacrifice to in order to cut through the tangle of uni bureaucracy?

Oh my god I am so confused. ( cut for academic bureaucracy )

You know what I think would be an interesting paper topic? Accusations of incest as slander throughout history -- most of what I'm thinking of is high or late medieval in the Mediterranean (several in Italy -- BORGIAS, and some other guy whose name I've forgotten -- and one in Spain that came up during my reading for my seminar), but I know there are classical examples too (like, half the emperors). Gods, I can just imagine trying to sell that to the Honors Program -- I'd want to actually be able to read the languages, though, so I'm not going to try. (Although it would be interesting to carry that forward and look at modern-ish representations, accurate or not -- Octavia and Octavian in Rome, what's his face and his sister in Gladiator, Cesare and Lucrezia in The Borgias, etc. But I digress.)

Today I wore a shirt with a Shakespeare quote on it to my Chaucer class. Unbearably geeky or not?

I have also come to the conclusion that I do not need merely a FUNCTIONAL teapot, I need a TEAPOT THE SIZE OF MY FREAKING HEAD. Also, more hangers. And a tee-tiny creamer, which is weirdly difficult to find in the U.S.; I should have bought the £2.99 one in Cambridge.

Is it weird that I wear longer skirts than some of my professors?

Okay, back to medieval Spain.