Just finished cutting about 1000 words from my dissertation.  Sweetness ( Read more... )

I have definitely reached the point of no return.

So I'm going through my draft and changing the references to Paradise Lost from footnotes to in-text citations (as per supervisor's instructions), and up to just now the citations have been in this form: 'See Milton (1998), p. 174, lines 112-19.'  Well, I just got to one that read 'See God (1998), ( Read more... )

( A rant you don't want to hear )

Pretty darn good movie last night.  The main guy in it gives new definition to the phrase "tough as nails".  If I ever horribly break my leg while climbing a mountain, I don't think you'll find me dragging my body out of a cave and across miles of glacier and rocky terrain while dehydrated, but I could be wrong ( Read more... )

Done with a draft of my thesis.  It's 12,000 words, but I still have to write the final bit of the conclusion, which I'll do once I've edited the rest of it.  I still need some quotes from some 17th-century Arminians.  Anyone?  Anyone?

Going to see this movie tonight at Katherine's department.  Excitement.

And that's about it.

I've got a dull ache thing happening in my head right now, and it's making it hard to work ( Read more... )

Fun fun time with the ole Anne and Smith.  They finally got here around 6 Thursday night (they mistakenly went to Norham Road instead of Norham Gardens!) and we trekked off through the Park and toward Teddy Hall for some grub.  After we ate our fill of starch after starch, we moseyed over to the Turf for a nice beverage and some gossip about the ( Read more... )

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I will be grading one of this guy's classes next fall at Iowa

Neat.  He even has an essay in the forthcoming book Milton and the Jews, which will prove highly useful for yours truly.  Very serendiptious, if you ask me ( Read more... )

Only in Oxford would I see some girl riding a bike in a mini-skirt and stilleto heels.  Oy.

Finally, I get some positive feedback in this place!  The feedback on my Samson Agonistes paper was glowing, and I started to really feel like I wasn't a moron while I read it.  wOOt wOOt ( Read more... )