Practice practice practice?

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.

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?

What do you have to write about, Kat?

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.

^^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.

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.

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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I'm trying to figure out what sort of program generated this. It's too close to actual grammar to be totally random words, but it's too random to just be pasted from something human-written (like the Jane Austen spam I was getting for a while last month.)

Kathy, that's a pretty standard reading on the Knight now. I mean, he is a mercenary, as is evident from the General Prologue.

I'm glad I've experienced Canterbury Tales. I'm glad I won't have to do it again.

I love looking at the Dreamer. It's such a common medieval formula that you see everywhere from Divine Comedy to the Romance of the Rose. Such fun.

ita, at breakfast the other week, I made everyone at the table look at me like I was insane because I had this whole thing about orthography and the Great Vowel Shift. My friend J, who is significantly nerdier than I, was the only one who knew what the hell I was talking about.

Cline said that when the SWAT officers had a clear shot, they opened fire. It was about a 45-yard shot taken with a sniper rifle, he said, and the bullet fatally wounded the suspect.

Yipes! Good shooting, Tex. That's almost half a football field to take somebody out behind a human shield.