First day of classes! Yikes!

[mayhap]

I am currently bumming around campus, killing time before The Class Which I Devoutly Hope to Drop. I won't know until tomorrow if I can actually drop The Class Which I Devoutly Hope to Drop (known to some as Early Renaissance Painting), so I shouldn't really skip It.

The two classes I had this morning are one right after the other and down the hallway from each other on the same floor in the same building, giving me strong flashbacks to high school. The first, Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Traditions (hereafter Death on the Nile) will be covering just that and should be quite a lot of fun, as I am still madly jealous of my friend who is studying Egyptology. Our professor casually referenced Dorothy Sayers, and I think it's pretty difficult to go wrong with a professor who knows her Sayers. The second, Acting Medieval Literature (hereafter Minstrelsy) is going to be very cool. We're not even doing any theatre per se, instead focusing exclusively on other literature and how it would have been performed.

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[mark356.livejournal.com]

Well, you rock for getting into NYU! And it sounds like most of those classes will be a lot of fun; thanks for telling me about them!

[mayhap]

Hee. I'm glad you like hearing all the class geekery, because I do it a lot. :)

[maldiligenta.livejournal.com]

If the class really was called Death on the Nile, I would be there in a flash.  I have done a ridiculous number of things in my life simply because of tenuous connections to Agatha Christie books.  Examples: taking French, learning to play bridge.
I actually wanted to take Acting Medieval Literature, but it conflicted with my work schedule.

I see Corelli's Mandolin is on your book list... did you like it?  I'm a bit ashamed to admit that it's pretty much my favorite book ever.  My mom's family comes from Cephallonia, which is the only reason I read it in the first place, and to my dismay I ended up loving it.  Imagine my even greater dismay when they made that awful movie out of it.

That Magic Kingdom book looks interesting... was it any good?  Well, I guess if Wil Wheaton liked it... :)

Sorry that this comment is practically novel-length itself.  I'm at my aforementioned job, and kind of bored.

[mayhap]

I loved Corelli's Mandolin ... I had picked it up at the Brandeis used book sale, and then brought it to New York last semester, and finally brought it to Brazil, meaning to read it all along ... and then it just consumed me when I did start reading it one day, and no way was I saving the rest of it for the plane ride back. Stay the hell away from the movie, you say? I suspected as much.

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is definitely worth a read. It's smart and interesting, and hey, if you don't mind reading it in any of those formats, it's free. :D

[maldiligenta.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I started reading Corelli's Mandolin while visiting my grandparents in Florida when I was 17 -- oh GOD, that was so freaking long ago -- and I soon caused my family mild alarm by how I began eschewing trips to the beach, miniature golf, etc. in favor of staying in and reading.

I have no good things to say about the movie other than that the scenery is pretty, and maybe John Hurt doesn't suck.  I'm trying to forgive Christian Bale for his involvement, but it's pretty hard.  Incidentally, I am absolutely sure that I would still hate the film even if I hadn't read the book, so it's not just one of those "the book was better" deals.

Downloaded Down and Out... it's next on my list.