Friday, January 20, 2012

stand up now, diggers all

    Dear Harriet Walter,

    So I've been trying to come up with a pet name for my English professor (with which to refer to her here) ever since I met her last semester and especially more now that I have two classes with her, and something finally clicked. She will henceforth be referred to as Professor-Madame King Arthur. Because she likes to teach in circles. (Forever rearranging tables and chairs to suit her geometrical purposes. Mumsy says it's a very English-professor sort of thing to do.) And because that is just what has stuck in my head lately. (Also because she teaches English and provides tea on Thursdays.)

    In other news, second week of classes is done and the workload has been very light so far, I have a cold again (my third in the space of about a month, I believe), I had a very brief and almost entirely painless walking-conversation with Professor Mine Enemy after chapel today, Dr Mac made us listen to the Diggers' Song as recreated by Chumbawamba in History class today because it was relevant and also cool, and my homework for the weekend looks actually kind of fun. For it I just have to read chapters of interesting history books and fascinating philosophy books and write a short descriptive essay for Lit and read things about writing for Writing class and read Psalms 1 through 72 and various other textbooky things. I like college right now. Liberal arts are fun.

Also the trees are pretty awesome lately.
    If didn't have a cold and had a tube of store-bought refrigerated cookie dough instead of a cold right now my life would be totally rad.

4 comments:

  1. I love learning, anything that gets the brain going and the creative juices flowing!
    your trees are beautiful! mine are covered in snow that slap around in the bajillion mile per hour wind!

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  2. "Roonde Table" translates correctly as 'tabled rotunda,' not 'round table'. Romance language word order and all that, we've been over this before. 1500 years is long enough for any mistranslation nag nag bla bla OH hai. Love you miss you.

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  3. DAD I LIKE CLASSICAL OR ROMANTIC POP CULTURE IMAGERY SOMETIMES IS THAT SO BAD CAN WE JUST BE HAPPY I'M NOT ON DRUGS OR GETTING PREGNANT OR WEARING STINGY-BRIM FEDORAS

    like gooooosh my blog does not do high academic or intellectual standards thhpt bleah

    k love you bye

    @Operandi, snow-covered trees are beautiful too! Although not as nice for the squirrels.

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  4. Cookie dough and a movie sounds like a dream right now!! aw!! i want some of both!! its friday so its not a long wait for it to start for me!! :)

    love the pic of the tree, lovely!

    love K

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