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GRAVY! the party's over 2006-03-08 — 5:48 p.m. |
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Well. I'm done with my exams. I AM DONE WITH MY EXAMS. That oral exam was singularly horrible. Imagine five professors staring at you as you admit to not having a clue who Richard OR Andrew Brome was. Yeah. What's worse is 2 hours before the exam, I had glanced at the entry for Richard Brome in the DLB and thought "nah, they'll never ask me about that guy." Why he couldn't just ask me who Phinneas freaking Fletcher was is beyond me. I KNOW THAT HE WROTE THE PURPLE ISLAND, PROFESSORS! OKAY! I KNOW THAT! WHY DIDN'T YOU ASK ME THAT????????? Oh man, and the medieval section, get this ... so on the written exam, they asked some ridiculous question like "Why is Chaucer important to English literature?" So in trying to come up with some semblance of a coherent answer, I begin the essay with "Harold Bloom thought that Shakespeare 'invented the human,' but Chaucer may have beat him to it." And then I rambled on about Chaucer and some crap. So Dr. W took it upon himself to make all of the questions on the oral be this: "What is 'human' about work X? How about work Y? Work Z?" And on and on and on. I had no idea how to answer anything. I just kind of stumbled on through, giving meager plot summaries and saying things like "sooooo .... he's ambitious ... and that's a human characteristic?" Ugggggggggggg. But I passed. Somehow, some way. The quality of mercy was totally not strained. And it's done!!! Now I'm going to clean and unwind. We're going to visit my sister and bro-in-law and nephew in Aspen over Spring Break, so that'll be awesome. And I think it's time for a new haircut. I've had roughly the same hair for 10 years now. Any suggestions? |
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