yes, it is finals week, why do you ask?

[bedlamsbard]

Huh. Maybe I can get myself to write my paper (Ruth Hall, the question of identity, must stretch to five-six pages double-spaced) if I tell myself I can write Dust afterwards.

(Guys, you...have no idea how nervous it makes me that Dust is even up in the air (um, pun not intended) again, because of the wreck that happened last time I tried this chapter. I am trying to trick myself into writing fic I desperately want to write.)

Also, I am kind of loving The Ruin of the Roman Empire, except I'm not sure I'll have time to finish it before I fly home and the library back home doesn't have it. I could always buy it! ...I will consider this option after I have sold back my textbooks.

Okay, paper.

I am also considering rereading all of Narnia when I get home, though I don't want to haul my copies cross-country -- I think the library has one of the omnibus editions, if not, I know they have multiple copies of the books. And I have them all on the iPod, though I think I'd prefer reading them.

ETA: Oh, hey, I just figured out that some of the religious imagery in Dust serves a Symbolic Purpose that I never thought about before. Okay, paper, seriously.

Comments

[aella_irene]

Oh, that book looks good...

(Things I have notes on-- the difference in how the Eastern Empire and the Western Empire handled sudden influxes of barbarians.)

[bedlamsbard]

I am only about eighty pages in, but I am really liking it so far. It keeps making me stop and think. I like it. And the section I just read was about the influx of barbarians, except how the Romans accidentally made them civilized enough to take over...

[aella_irene]

The Eastern Empire apparently went, 'Okay! Come, settle, take important roles in our army and governmental systems...'

[bedlamsbard]

Well, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!