Cool Stuff Update

Here are some photos of cool things which I possess:

A personal tribute to LOLCATS made by phrasemuffin .
( photo! )

I'll put up a photo of the lovely XKCD shirt he bought me when I get a chance to take one.

This Dad found in an old National Geographic magazine, and left on my dressing table for me. It lurked there for nearly a year, unopened, as I shoved it aside every time I came home. When I did finally open it, I squeed. It lived on my wardrobe door at college this year, and is now on my wall at home.
( hehe, nerd! )

And what's more, I have a t-shirt from Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog. His store is cool and has many many nerdy t-shirts. I'm fond of the one which reads "CHAUCER: because Shakespeare was too easy". Although I didn't find Chaucer all that interesting, or his language that difficult, when we read him this semester. (The content is another matter. What the hell was he smoking when he wrote the House of Fame?) First person to design and sell a t-shirt reading "CYNEWULF: Because Chaucer is too mainstream" has my eternal adoration.



A rather unflattering photo, all things considered. But such an awesome shirt. I wore it to Anglo-Saxon class religiously. Needless to say, I will be wearing it to Beowulf next week.

Bored?

Anyone bored out of their brain this (southern) summer? goblinpaladin and I are going to be working through Peter Baker's Electronic Introduction To Old English if you want to join us. B is doing it for the first time, because he is a NERD and doesn't fancy waiting the twelve months or so before he can take the course at uni. I'm doing it for the grammar review.
Baker's online anthology and Old English Aerobics provide their own answers, so you can pick up a feel for the language even if you lack anglo-saxonists in your vicinity. There will be both translation and grammar involved. We won't badger you, unless you ask us to, about how much you have or haven't done. Plan is, we all help each other out according to our various skill levels, and if everyone learns something then we consider it a success.

So, if you've always wanted to learn some AS but never had the time, or if in fact you never wanted to learn it but you are so bored you'll try anything right now, or you've learnt it before and are bored enough to want to review it, come and join us in a nerdy adventure.

ed: i just noticed the number of times I used the word "bored" in this entry. Rest assured Anglo-Saxon is not boring. It is in fact the BEST possible cure for boredom.