Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.

Mal ,'Shindig'


Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sarameg - Dec 08, 2006 5:02:30 pm PST #5223 of 10007

I'm glad you can enjoy pizza, ita. Pizza is good. I love eating it. It just doesn't always love me back. It's the trifecta of (I suspect) greasy carbs, lactose and acid that is just...bad. One piece is ok. More than that, erhm.


erikaj - Dec 08, 2006 5:11:34 pm PST #5224 of 10007
Always Anti-fascist!

Not from experience, damn it, Trudy.


Trudy Booth - Dec 08, 2006 5:22:28 pm PST #5225 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Practice practice practice?


Kat - Dec 08, 2006 5:24:25 pm PST #5226 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I need to be taken care of some days.

Truer words, ita, never been typed. Not just as it pertains to you, but man, that's so how I feel.

The outrage-adrenealin from my day has worn off and I'm left exhausted and faintly nauseated. I still have 10 more pages to write about Chaucer. Please, save me.


sarameg - Dec 08, 2006 5:30:22 pm PST #5227 of 10007

Um, you are awesome and will write the 10 pages after a nap? Wish I could help you both, but sadly untalented in your realms.

Oh! Nibble. Maybe. If that doesn't make the pukey worse?


Kathy A - Dec 08, 2006 5:37:13 pm PST #5228 of 10007
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

What do you have to write about, Kat?


Kat - Dec 08, 2006 5:43:24 pm PST #5229 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I'm writing about Chaucer's take on social unrest and poverty/peasantry, particularly in light of the 1381 Peasant Revolts that he more than likely witnessed at very close range. It's more a social Chaucer than a deeply textual analysis.

I can't believe that at this point, I can actually articulate the school of criticism I subscribe to (new historicism, apparently). I'm such a nerd.

A procrastinatey nerd.


§ ita § - Dec 08, 2006 5:48:50 pm PST #5230 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

^^points at nerd^^

I ate so much and so fast I gave myself a stomachache. But it had to be done, and it's going to stay down, dammit.

Especially important since I'm adding a Vicodin and a Flexeril to tonight's meds.


Kathy A - Dec 08, 2006 5:54:03 pm PST #5231 of 10007
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Love that take on Chaucer!

When I had the class on the Canterbury Tales, I stuck to the more specific themes within individual stories (papers were only supposed to be 3-5 pages each). But when I took the medieval lit class, my honors paper was a comparison of the use of the dream genre in The Pearl, some other poem I don't remember offhand, and Chaucer's Parliament of Fowles.

I liked Terry Jones's book Chaucer's Knight, in which he goes into why exactly the knight is not the "parfit, gentel knight" traditional critics took him to be.


Hil R. - Dec 08, 2006 6:05:19 pm PST #5232 of 10007
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I read Canterbury Tales my junior year in high school, with a new teacher who really didn't teach very well, so while I remember giggling over several parts, I can't really recall much beyond that.

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