books + bedlam = bliss
Feb. 16th, 2011 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardToday I received PACKAGES. All of them, all at once! I ordered the next four Falco books I hadn't read from Amazon, and also a stainless steel saucepan (2 qt, Farberware -- my mother told me just to get the cheapest one, saying in her strictest tones, "Kachan, it's just a pot," and I meekly gave in), and while one of the books came in this morning, the other three trickled in so that when I went to pick them up along with the pot from Mail Ops, I discovered that I also had ONE MORE PACKAGE. In a fit of melancholy on my birthday, I ordered this poster, and since it had to come from Australia, it took a while. It looks really good, but it's on a bit flimsier paper than I expected -- I might go and see if the FedEx on campus laminates things, so I'm not worried about putting it up on the wall.
Actually, that's a lie. I totally want to put it up on my closet door, because the idea tickles me.
Anyway, my pot is very shiny. The handle is at a bit of an odd angle, but I don't really expect to be spending most of my time holding the pot, so that's a minor annoyance. Still need to wash it and cook in it, but in the meantime -- I need to figure out where to keep it, as I want to keep it from getting banged up in the drawer under the oven where the common-use cookware lives. I think it should be fine on the second shelf, once I take the giant freaking art books back to the library.
Meanwhile, I am halfway through a biography of Lucrezia Borgia, which could have done with a more interesting title (the title is the rather uninspired Lucrezia Borgia), but got sidetracked today by Last Act in Palmyra, which arrived this morning and which I finished about an hour ago. This is, evidently, the semester in which I remember that Books + Bedlam = Bliss. (Also, for whatever reason, I am most calmed down by the combo of Books + Food, if it's food I can eat one-handed. I have a bookstand at home, but as we only have two, they live at home.) I'm keeping track of the books I read for fun in an Excel spreadsheet. (I really don't know how to use Excel, but I can make tables as well as the next girl.) Plus the number of pages (for class + leisure) I read each week as well.
ETA: I am starting to hate graduate students and their extended checkout dates. The Spenser Encyclopedia is out of the library until May. I need it now. Loyola does not have it. I don't even need to check it out, just look at it for an hour! (Which, uh, I guess the answer would be to e-mail my advisor and ask if I could borrow his copy for the weekend, which I will do in the morning, I suppose, since I have Shakespeare with him on Thursday, but it's the principle of the thing!) (The Spenser Encyclopedia is exactly what it sounds like. A giant encyclopedia. Of Spenser. I have been advised to look at it to figure out more specifically what I want to write about as "the use of classical epic form in the Renaissance" is a rather large topic.)
Actually, that's a lie. I totally want to put it up on my closet door, because the idea tickles me.
Anyway, my pot is very shiny. The handle is at a bit of an odd angle, but I don't really expect to be spending most of my time holding the pot, so that's a minor annoyance. Still need to wash it and cook in it, but in the meantime -- I need to figure out where to keep it, as I want to keep it from getting banged up in the drawer under the oven where the common-use cookware lives. I think it should be fine on the second shelf, once I take the giant freaking art books back to the library.
Meanwhile, I am halfway through a biography of Lucrezia Borgia, which could have done with a more interesting title (the title is the rather uninspired Lucrezia Borgia), but got sidetracked today by Last Act in Palmyra, which arrived this morning and which I finished about an hour ago. This is, evidently, the semester in which I remember that Books + Bedlam = Bliss. (Also, for whatever reason, I am most calmed down by the combo of Books + Food, if it's food I can eat one-handed. I have a bookstand at home, but as we only have two, they live at home.) I'm keeping track of the books I read for fun in an Excel spreadsheet. (I really don't know how to use Excel, but I can make tables as well as the next girl.) Plus the number of pages (for class + leisure) I read each week as well.
ETA: I am starting to hate graduate students and their extended checkout dates. The Spenser Encyclopedia is out of the library until May. I need it now. Loyola does not have it. I don't even need to check it out, just look at it for an hour! (Which, uh, I guess the answer would be to e-mail my advisor and ask if I could borrow his copy for the weekend, which I will do in the morning, I suppose, since I have Shakespeare with him on Thursday, but it's the principle of the thing!) (The Spenser Encyclopedia is exactly what it sounds like. A giant encyclopedia. Of Spenser. I have been advised to look at it to figure out more specifically what I want to write about as "the use of classical epic form in the Renaissance" is a rather large topic.)
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Date: 2011-02-17 05:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-17 06:22 am (UTC)Speaking of Spenser, apparently the scholarly consensus is that The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost were the two main literary influences on Narnia.
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Date: 2011-02-17 05:13 pm (UTC)...I don't think my university has ever offered a course on Arthurian literature.
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Date: 2011-02-17 05:16 pm (UTC)Ooh, that's interesting. Now that I'd be interested to explore in a scholarly fashion. (Huh, I can see it in the structure, too, to some extent -- not Paradise Lost so much, but definitely The Faerie Queene.)