tricksy!

Hee. I have just come home for lunch after my first class, Literatures, Tricksters and Cultural Exchange (hereafter Tricksters, because damn, all my classes have great long names, and that's the shortest of them), which was lovely. I first stumbled upon this class in the course listings the day I was registering, actually, because I needed to make sure my schedule was full-up as I was putting myself on several wait-lists and I didn't want to be demoted to a part-time student. I decided to register for it because I consulted the online course evaluation guide, read some comments about the professor, and determined that they were much the sort of thing I would write on a course evaluation form if I adored my professor madly and wanted to have thousands of his illicit student-teacher babies (rather as I did Professor Meineck freshman year)

It turns out that I was entirely correct. He even has an attractive British accent of some sort, and a very pleasant way about him besides.

This bodes well, I think.

You know, it does seem as if, per the Sorting Hat (which, as of OotP, I adore madly) the Slytherins should fit in as trickster figures better than they do. Or perhaps they fit in better with one of the variations we'll be looking at, or perhaps (Merlin willing) some of them will demonstrate some character development for once and do something interesting in books six and seven. Or maybe Salazar Slytherin himself would make a good trickster of some sort in a story I might end up writing. You never know.

tricksy!

Hee. I have just come home for lunch after my first class, Literatures, Tricksters and Cultural Exchange (hereafter Tricksters, because damn, all my classes have great long names, and that's the shortest of them), which was lovely. I first stumbled upon this class in the course listings the day I was registering, actually, because I needed to make sure my schedule was full-up as I was putting myself on several wait-lists and I didn't want to be demoted to a part-time student. I decided to register for it because I consulted the online course evaluation guide, read some comments about the professor, and determined that they were much the sort of thing I would write on a course evaluation form if I adored my professor madly and wanted to have thousands of his illicit student-teacher babies (rather as I did Professor Meineck freshman year)

It turns out that I was entirely correct. He even has an attractive British accent of some sort, and a very pleasant way about him besides.

This bodes well, I think.

You know, it does seem as if, per the Sorting Hat (which, as of OotP, I adore madly) the Slytherins should fit in as trickster figures better than they do. Or perhaps they fit in better with one of the variations we'll be looking at, or perhaps (Merlin willing) some of them will demonstrate some character development for once and do something interesting in books six and seven. Or maybe Salazar Slytherin himself would make a good trickster of some sort in a story I might end up writing. You never know.

Two things

First, a pretty shiny new meme:

The "My Own Private Revolution" Meme by redscharlach

( So... )

Second:

Okay, so I already fangirled the first class I went to today, now for the second: Gender and Sanctity in Medieval Art (hereafter known as Sanctity). Except that it now seems to be named Gender and Sainthood in Medieval Art, and accordingly hereafter known as Sainthood, so I have to change the tab on my file.

Anyway, I was so right to schedule all my other classes around this class, because it is great. Our professor is a funny, excitable, interesting woman who's from Florence, has studied all over Europe, works at the library at the Cloisters and is writing a book about iconography of Mary Magdelene. She immediately decided to let all 8 people on the waitlist into the class, and intends to subvert the department, which of course she is only visiting, by any other means necessary. She's copying all of our reading for us for free every week, and she gave us this excellent-looking bibliography of books we could use for research. If we can't get ahold of the books otherwise, she will let us into the library at the Cloisters, the fact that we're undergraduates be damned.

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Two things

First, a pretty shiny new meme:

The "My Own Private Revolution" Meme by redscharlach

( So... )

Second:

Okay, so I already fangirled the first class I went to today, now for the second: Gender and Sanctity in Medieval Art (hereafter known as Sanctity). Except that it now seems to be named Gender and Sainthood in Medieval Art, and accordingly hereafter known as Sainthood, so I have to change the tab on my file.

Anyway, I was so right to schedule all my other classes around this class, because it is great. Our professor is a funny, excitable, interesting woman who's from Florence, has studied all over Europe, works at the library at the Cloisters and is writing a book about iconography of Mary Magdelene. She immediately decided to let all 8 people on the waitlist into the class, and intends to subvert the department, which of course she is only visiting, by any other means necessary. She's copying all of our reading for us for free every week, and she gave us this excellent-looking bibliography of books we could use for research. If we can't get ahold of the books otherwise, she will let us into the library at the Cloisters, the fact that we're undergraduates be damned.

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