Never become a medievalist

[highlyeccentric]

what about sifting through 561 examples of the word 'grund', and through a list of several thousand OE texts, and ticking off where the two lists coincide, and then being expected to make intelligent assumptions about the textual contexts of the word 'grund' is supposed to be fun? or normal in any way?????

i wonder if anyone else in the class actually did this??? if, heaven forbid, they did *more*? perhaps they translated examples, as i started off trying to do and gave up?

my brain it pains now.

although i did figure out how we know so much about OE vocab, despite comparitively few texts- latin-OE dictionaries produced right throughout the period.

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[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

Aw, you poor thing :( Medievalism sounds pretty sucky. But do you really think that you're the only one who did it? It's an assessment, isn't it?

But hey, if you feel like you need to escape and you aren't doing anything tonight, I'm going to Missy Higgins at the Enmore and have a spare ticket. It is, of course, my fault that I have a spare, but I won't bore you (nor embarrass myself) with the details. (And I completely understand if you need to wash your hair tonight, or have a headache, or have work early tomorrow morning :P or if you just don't like her.)

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

my teacher says i'm doing too much on it, and i think she's probably right. i've enough stuff here that given another couple of days to firm up my translations i could write 3000 words; given six months i reckon i could have an honours thesis. fortunately, since i have this 1000 word task to do i now know what NOT to do for either of those things.

i have to write an essay on Grund tonight david m'dear. And i don't particularly like Missy Higgins. But thank you for asking :)

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should keep all that stuff then and get your honours easy...

That's ok. I thought you might be working on it still, and I have to say I'm not surprised you aren't a fan - so far I have only one friend who does like her, and he has a 30 Seconds To Mars concert tonight. The fact that he saw Missy only just this past Wednesday is absolutely irrelevant, he loves her that much. Unfortunately, that seems to be the way for potential Missy fans: either you absolutely adore her, or you cannot for the life of you stand her. I, of course, am of the former.

Have fun with Grund :S

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

i would be happy if i never had to look at grund again. no, no, no more grund.
The inestimable Stuart Thomson gave me a suggestion for an honours thesis the other day- to do with discipleship and world order in AElfric's homilies. i think i'll start looking at things in that sort of area.

i like her songs, a lot. i just can't stand it when she sings them!

i also like it when she sings other people's songs- as in her cameo on 'She Will Have Her Way'. it just seems to be the combination between Missy Higgins and her own songs which drives me around the bend.

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

lol. I don't think I've ever heard of someone liking an artist's performative skills/character and songs, but only seperately.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

i think it's just something about the slightly nasal way she sings her own songs that gets to me.

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

and you don't think she sings other people's songs the way she does her own?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

her voice isn't as irritating, not sure why...