50 Books in a Year:

6. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Beidler Ed. Includes:
*The General Prologue
*The Knight's Tale
*The Miller's Tale
*The Reeve's Tale
*The Wife of Bath's Tale
*The Merchant's Tale
*The Franklin's Tale
*The Pardoner's Tale
*The Shipman's Tale
*The Prioress' Tale
*The Nun's Priest's Tale

One of these days I may actually read the entirety of T.C.T., but at the moment I'm good with this. Yay.

So, I'm a bit pathetic. Let's just say it involves a window that is not completely sealed from the outside, a spider which crawled all over my window but never came near me, me cringing and internally wailing, a bottle, and a kindly neighbor who took pity on me and squashed the spider. And now one of my chores later tonight will be to tape up the sides of my window so it may never happen again. *shudders*

Lots of Autumn 2008 pondering/querying behind the cut.


I don't know what I want to take in regards to my remaining 5 credits next quarter.

My top choice is: ENGL 339 English Literature: Contemporary England
Return to more traditional forms in such writers as Bowen, Orwell, Waugh, Cary, Lessing, Drabble.

There are two downsides to this class. It's right before what would be my last class of the day, and I would need to get from one class to another in 10 minutes though it probably takes about 15 at my fastest. The other is that it fulfills no requirements at all; I'm sorta running out of time to take elective classes (even though it's in my major's department) so it might not be in my best interests to let those last 2 required classes slide past me. On the plus side, if I did take this class (and ignoring any 1-3 credit class) I'd only have classes Tuesday and Thursday. Which would be awesome, but at the same time I'd probably go insane.

A professor hasn't been assigned to this class yet, so I don't know what sort of books s/he'd be teaching. And, obviously, if the teacher is good/likeable or not. When they do announce the teacher, that may be the deciding factor.

My other choices:

ENGL 327 English Literature: Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century
Selections from wits and satirists; poems by John Dryden and Alexander Pope; plays by Dryden, William Congreve, and other wits; the great satires of Jonathan Swift, and the first stirring of the novel.

ENGL 422 Arthurian Legends
Medieval romance in its cultural and historical setting, with concentration on the evolution of Arthurian romance.

They both fulfill the pre-1900 requirement I need and don't interfere with my other classes. I'm not a huge poetry-fan, though, and I'm not all too sure I'm deeply interested in the medieval-lit concentration. I'm tempted to wait and see if they'll offer something more interesting in Winter 2009, but...I don't want to put it off only to find the course selection in winter is even worse than autumn's.

My other option is: HSTAS 212 History of Korean Civilization
From earliest times to the present. Development of Korean society and culture in terms of government organization, social and economic change, literature, and art.

The plus-side is that this is a Writing credit, which is the other requirement I need to fulfill. It also (if I ever can declare it) would most likely fulfill something in the Korean minor.

One last beef/rant about the autumn schedule, then you can return to your regularly-scheduled entry: Why, why, WHY are all the English classes T/Th 9:30-10:50/10:30-11:50/1:30-2:50? There are a few which are M/W, but...would it be so much to ask for a few more classes nestled right in that wonderful 11:30-1:20 slot and are a nice, doable distance to what will be my last class? And why are us English majors being sent to Loew?!?! *flails in frustration*


Official-Rome-Meeting in T-minus 5 days! ...Not that I'm, uh, counting down or anything....*shuffles* And I went ahead and requested a copy of the impossible-to-get-Rome-book assigned to us through the library. Hopefully we're only supposed to read the book by the time we get to Rome. If we're supposed to have it on hand and/or have had it read by the time of the meeting...then I'm just going to have to shrug and tell them they should've sent out notices/had the meeting earlier.

It was a little surprising/eerie to me, but in my Planets class Toby was covering the atmospheres of Venus, Earth, and Mars, and I was following along with him, almost to where I started predicting where he was going with his lecture. O.o Guess taking Weather101 was of some use after all. Though, probably not in the way Jerome meant it to.

And, hee, I wanna go live on Mars, with its dust-devils that put tornados to shame and sandstorms that encompass the entire planet. hey, future scientists, get to work on it; we wouldn't want to make liars out of the Babylon 5 creators with their Mars colony, do we? ^.~

I've suddenly developed a craving for Korean noodles. A particular type, too. Naengmyun, particularly the ice-water broth variety. Though now that I think about it, the spicy cold noodles sounds tasty, too. *wonders where the craving came from, then goes back to her ramyun*


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