Why is the rum always gone?
Jul. 18th, 2006 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zcat_abroadAnd so the holiday disappeared, and I haven't managed to do half of what I intended.
No, I wrong myself. I almost got the chapter finished - but needed to get to the library to chase some things up. Unfortunately, with now living a long way out of town, and only going in when I have classes (either as student or teacher), it makes it kinda hard to get library time.
But there was success today - I paid off $56.85 in fines - for interlibrary loans, not overdue books! - and found the answers to some of the questions. Such as where on earth I found out about a certain unedited manuscript lodged in Oxford's Corpus Christi College - and so what sort of date I can assign to the document (15th century).
Tomorrow I'm going in to Uni to play with a course on Paleography, which hopfully will result in me being able to describe such a manuscript myself, without having to go looking for what the experts say. Who knows - I might find out something amazing about some old manuscript that no-one ever noticed before - it's cutting edge research! Though probably not with the photocopy versions I get sent to me.
'Twas a strange thing, but this was the first time I did not feel it was a shame that there were students on the campus again. Instead, there was a kind of excitement, and a realisation that this is what university is all about - informing, filling empty young minds. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that there are 58 people enrolled in Old English this semester. There might not be tomorrow, after the first lecture and tutorial. One girl left half-way through tutorial, and we do try to scare people into withdrawing in the first 2 weeks - otherwise they upset our statistics at the end of term - fails and DNSs. But it's definitely a good start.
Now there's enough time for me to start on the next level of WarcraftIII, followed by watching House, and going directly to bed. Too tired to see much more of today.
No, I wrong myself. I almost got the chapter finished - but needed to get to the library to chase some things up. Unfortunately, with now living a long way out of town, and only going in when I have classes (either as student or teacher), it makes it kinda hard to get library time.
But there was success today - I paid off $56.85 in fines - for interlibrary loans, not overdue books! - and found the answers to some of the questions. Such as where on earth I found out about a certain unedited manuscript lodged in Oxford's Corpus Christi College - and so what sort of date I can assign to the document (15th century).
Tomorrow I'm going in to Uni to play with a course on Paleography, which hopfully will result in me being able to describe such a manuscript myself, without having to go looking for what the experts say. Who knows - I might find out something amazing about some old manuscript that no-one ever noticed before - it's cutting edge research! Though probably not with the photocopy versions I get sent to me.
'Twas a strange thing, but this was the first time I did not feel it was a shame that there were students on the campus again. Instead, there was a kind of excitement, and a realisation that this is what university is all about - informing, filling empty young minds. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that there are 58 people enrolled in Old English this semester. There might not be tomorrow, after the first lecture and tutorial. One girl left half-way through tutorial, and we do try to scare people into withdrawing in the first 2 weeks - otherwise they upset our statistics at the end of term - fails and DNSs. But it's definitely a good start.
Now there's enough time for me to start on the next level of WarcraftIII, followed by watching House, and going directly to bed. Too tired to see much more of today.
