zomg medievalism (for once my default DW icon is appropriate)

[hammster]

I am attending this conference soon because I am a giant nerd (OK, because my MOM is a giant nerd and wants someone to go with her while she gets her Ye Olde Norse Things problems on) and I just spent the last hour or so going through the catalogue of sessions they sent us putting sticky tabs in and *____* HOW AM I GOING TO CHOOSE, OMG

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[estelendur]

if it doesn't conflict with anything super-amazing-interesting you should go to the panel that Sebastian Rider Bezerra is on because he is my friend :p

[estelendur]

(he's an undergrad)

[estelendur]

tho i'm not 100% sure you'd be interested in his paper - it's about welsh praise poetry soooo idk

[hammster]

Haha yeah that does not sound terribly relevant to my interests! BUT ITS PRETTY RAD THAT HE IS PRESENTING :O

[hammster]

TO HERE?! dang that is pretty high, how come? WHAT HAPPENED

I LIKE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE ILLUMINATED AND IN HEBREW VARIETY mostly because my manuscript interests are very narrow ALTHOUGH I guess I am also pretty into any kind of illuminations when you get RIGHT down to it BUT NOT THE LATER ILLUSTRATED ONES fuck that I dont want a crappy picture book I want an illuminated manuscript, GEEZ. >:T

Yeah idk either. I KIND OF HOPE it's about how much of a massive bag of dicks he was hahahahahhahaa but IDK I doubt it. A lot of the sessions are like "medievalism in ____" and sometimes ____ is Harry Potter or, uh, the X-files, so idk maybe they are discussions of Narnia ? I DIDNT REALLY READ TOO CLOSELY, BECAUSE I HATE HIM 8)a

oooh thank you! I will be sure to report back with how it goes! :D

[hammster]

OH MAN YES THE MARGIN DOODLES those are totes my fuckin favorite yeah. "AAHHH EXTRANEOUS LINE NO NO LOOK ITS COOL I'LL MAKE IT A VINE LOOK I ADDED A LEAF IT'S COOL NOW"

haha yeah idk! I mean I guess Tolkien was actually a hardcore medievalist and like translated a fuckton of things and there are a lot of ... like.. actual medievalism I GUESS SHOUT-OUTS? KIND OF? in his books? Whereas I don't THINK Lewis was like that soooo fuck if I know o-o

[amabla]

There are nearly 50 sessions for each time slot, how does that even work?! Jeepers man, I do not envy you for having to choose, but at least they're all awesome options.

[hammster]

HAHA I KNOOOW! 8( I guess there are several different buildings and stuff? And uh, they sent us like an actual paper catalogue, so me and mom went through it and put like one color of stickies on our FIRST CHOICE session and a different color on BACKUP SESSIONS to go to if the best one is full or w/e? o_o ...so basically our book is just completely stuffed with stickies uh. in theory this will help, but I guess we will see!! XD

[estelendur]

I'm given to understand it takes over the ENTIRE Western Michigan U campus. So yeah, that's how that works.

[cetacea]

I realized that I haven't heard anything from you in MONTHS. Where have you goooone?