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Studying for comps has taken over my life for the past couple weeks, and it's all going to be over tomorrow (thank God). I've studied everything from Chaucer to modern British poetry, and about ten thousand terms and names and whatever else for the ID section. I think my favorite moment so far has been when Jessica and I were studying Victorian poetry and got to Tennyson's "In Memoriam." Here's what we concluded about Tennyson himself (as quoted from a Facebook wall post):
Tennyson was 6'4" tall and had red hair, and he stooped because he was ashamed of how tall he was. His father was emotionally fragile, and didn't get the inheritance he should have because his younger brother got it instead, which violated the laws of primogeniture. When Tennyson went to Cambridge, he stayed in his room a lot and only ate when he was starved. He lived on that random island and then became Lord. In 1842, he received a £200 pension from the government for literary distinction. He was apparently a "rock star" (so says Reishman). Emily says that "he was like the Robert Pattinson of the Victorian age." Also, he "really liked Hallam" (quoted from Jessica's notes).
My reasoning for why he wrote "In Memoriam" (which is a ridiculously long elegy for his late friend Arthur Henry Hallam)?
"The second half of his bromance had just passed away, what did you expect to happen?"
Yeah. And then Jessica began singing Lady Gaga's "Bad (B)romance" in the Reishman Room in Gailor. It was kind of great.
Anyway, tomorrow I'm taking the comp, and then I'm going to celebrate, and it's going to be freaking awesome.
The picture is from a pizza box I was drawing on at dinner tonight... I can't seem to get away from Tennyson.
Also, I had my first comp nightmare the other night. I fell asleep reading Marlowe's "Hero and Leander," which is really wonderful, by the way, and dreamed that I was swimming across the Atlantic Ocean and Neptune was trying to drown me, and Dr. Macfie and her Renaissance Lit class were all standing in a boat watching, and Dr. Macfie was saying, "See, everyone, this is exactly what happened to Leander. See how Neptune is trying to get revenge on Becca for scorning his advances?" Yeah... it was a bit strange.
So, while studying for my RenLit exam, I discovered (again) how weird I am. Here are some interesting things that appeared in my notes:
From the Wyatt sonnets:
"i.e. your breath reeks, you nasty old woman"
From Astrophil and Stella
"Dedicated the majority of the sonnet to a point by point 'everything you can do I can do better' with the dog"
From Shakespeare's Sonnets
"Pity the world and have kids, or else you'll die and be eaten by the grave"
"Minions aren't really that good"
From Spencer's Faerie Queene:
"RCK's bragging - so confident that his inner virtue will illuminate his path.
Yeah... no."
"no sex for you!!"
"RCK decides to escape
Goes out through an outhouse so no one will see him
Slithers through sh*t and decomposing bodies.....eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew."
"And Britomart's all 'it's just a flesh wound'"
From Marlowe's Hero and Leander:
"Seems he's experienced a poetic/descriptive meltdown, also a sexual meltdown
'slack muse' - yeah, right. Muse."
"I'm pretty much half dead, just let me into your bed so I can rest a bit"
"Soooooooooooooooo much sexual imagery, I mean, really"
"Leander finally makes it to Hero, 'nekkid' (so says Dr. Macfie)
Hero is so excited that she runs to the door, also 'nekkid'
Seeing Leander 'nekkid' at the door, she screams in fear - naturally"
"Hero seeks refuge in her bed
Not a good idea, to hide in one's bed from a potential rapist... bad plan, Hero, bad plan"
The things I think are relevant to class and the literature we're studying.... I don't even know.
Have you ever thought about what would happen if zombies attacked Sewanee? I have. But then, I'm kind of weird. My friends and I make zombie contingency plans and figure out which of us would die first if we lived in horror movies.
At lunch today, Jessica, Tiffany, Elizabeth, Kristen and I were talking about what could possibly cause classes to be cancelled at Sewanee. We decided that snow wouldn't do it; probably not even velociraptors would. We'd be expected to fight through them to get to class.
Then we wondered what would happen if zombies attacked. Where would be the best place to hole up and wait out a siege? Maybe All Saints, because then we'd also have access to Carnegie, Walsh-Elliot and Guerry, though how we'd block all the exterior doors and windows into those buildings is beyond me. I feel like the police email warning the student body about such an attack would look like this:
WARNING: WHAT APPEAR TO BE ZOMBIES ARE ATTACKING STUDENTS AND FACULTY ACROSS THE DOMAIN. STAY INDOORS. BARRICADE YOURSELVES IN IF POSSIBLE. DO NOT GO OUTSIDE. FURTHER UPDATES WILL BE SENT AS THE SITUATION DEVELOPS.
Except probably with more typos. And then (because I spend so much time in Gailor with friends between classes) we'd have to fight our way through the zombie hoard to get to a more defensible place (like All Saints or Walsh-Elliot).
And then there are the professors. Each of them would have their own personal zombie-fighting style, naturally. Reishman would cut them down with his umbrella as he biked past them. Macfie would strangle them with her scarves. Engel would tell Albie to get them, and then Albie would just lay down and ignore him. Can you tell I'm an English major? Lol.
Sorry this post is kind of maudlin. It's just that kind of day.
In case you're wondering, this is a pretty interesting guide on how to survive a zombie attack:
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Survive_a_Zombie_Apocalypse
Also, this could prove helpful for those unfamiliar with zombies. ;-)
So I experienced my first Sonic fail today. It rained all morning then got REALLY FREAKING COLD and so my car iced over. I had to crawl in through the passenger side door because it was the only one I could get open. Then I went to pick up Jessica and Eliza and headed off to Sonic to get something to eat. Then we got there. And yeah. The windows were frozen shut. All of them.
We sat in the parking space thing for like ten minutes, and all the windows opened but mine. SUCH a pain. But then mine opened so it was okay.
That's really all.
