Must Read Faster!

Cracking down hard to get things read and so forth hasn’t left me a lot of time to get these little entries in.  Similarly, there hasn’t been all that much to report when I am in a book.  I read two of the Arthurian Romances by Chrétien De Troyes – The Knight in the Cart or Lancelot and The Knight with the Lion or Yvain depending on what titles you want to go with.  Still finishing up with the Illiad before I head into the Odyssey tomorrow and in between that I’ve been reading some Norse Mythology overviews about Odin and Loki and how all of that got recorded so far after the telling of the tales and the practice of the religion and what that has done to the stories in terms of what we can learn from them.  Good times.

Incidentally, if anyone wanted to listen along to Lancelot, there is a lovely lady who read this and recorded it as a book on tape on the internet - I really hate Guinevere because of things like the crap she pulls in this story, but I am not going to write a report on that here, hate her for yourself by listening.  Summaries of what's going on in each section are under the link to that section - have fun while getting some high culture of the Romantic courts of France!

Meanwhile my duckies still won’t all swim together, but it is getting a little better.  Lady Katherine was very cute the other night – she’s been trying to join everything that she signed the sheet for on Fresher’s Fair day, or at least give it a try – when she couldn’t decide which dance thing to do and I ended up walking her to the Scottish dancing meeting down the road and dropping her off – very kindergarten / mom moment but it was all good and she really liked that club too, so bonus.  I am trying to figure out which one I should go to, since it is required that I attend one.  I think this requirement should be re-thought though; I am plenty busy enough with classes, reading, papers, and general living to be worried about making weekly meetings and writing my observations on another culture from them.  My guess is that, like so many components of the EC study abroad program, this is a one-size-fits-all measure that might vary in effectiveness from international travel program to international study program.

Anyway – I could go to a “talk about the 10 sci-fi books you would want with you on a desert island” meeting they are having in the Sci-Fi book club tonight at 8pm – if nothing else it would let me get a peek inside Queen’s College.  I had a long late night last night though finishing up the Arthur reading (more assigned today, huzzah) and my nap today just made me want another nap – it was needed though, functionality had dropped to unacceptable levels after the two hour seminar class I had this morning – so I am not sure if I am up for a meeting of the minds on Sci-Fi books… we’ll see.