Today I'm grateful for the students in my freshman comp class ( Read more... )

It appears that Osama bin Laden has seen Fahrenheit 9/11. I must admit, I find that slightly odd. I could ask which, of Bush and bin Laden, was the greater fiend, but I'm not sure there would be any point to the question, other than to prey upon peoples' emotions. I'm not asking that question, but if I did, I'm not sure that I'd be able to answer ( Read more... )

This is boring. Silence of the Lambs was an interesting film. A great film, even. Hannibal (the film; I have better things to do than read the book) had this prissy little allusory thesis about Hannibal and Clarice and Dante and Beatrice, and the only thing the only thing that was worthwhile in the film was the aria that was composed expressly ( Read more... )

I've noticed Melusine by Lynne Reid Banks in bookstores before, and never picked it up. I was never a huge fan of The Indian In The Cupboard, or its sequels. Finally, though, I picked up Melusine from the local library, and I'm very pleased. It's a very evocative rendition of one of the more interesting (and lesser known) myths -- I'd explain it ( Read more... )

I have a kitten! A catling, actually, as she's four months old. She's small though; much smaller than my Mr. Bean teddy bear ( Read more... )

Read more about Hecht in the New York Times or the Washington Post. And I'm reprinting his answer to Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach below ( Read more... )

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... how annoying it is to be called Mrs. Morgan. It's only in an essay, of course, and the student means no harm, it's just... eww. Not my preferred form of address.

Still, I don't complain about Mrs. Peel -- but then, she was widowed. Mrs. Morgan lacks something.

Back to my grading--

I've got my first grade (a check-plus, which is the highest possible).

On Sunday and Tuesday nights, I sleep 0-3 hours, on other nights, I sleep 8-10.

I've had my first awful cold.

I still need to find the UW's Dante expert and talk to him/her about my essay on Inferno XX.

I have a lot of papers to grade, and I shall work on them and watch ( Read more... )

I need the titles of all the movies you can think of about historical figures!