I just had this dream that I slept with my Arthurian Literature professor. Which is kind of a random thing to pop into my head, since I haven't seen him in two years, but I guess there's no accounting for what goes on in one's head. The worst part, though, was when I woke up, since I was 1) disappointed that I hadn't actually slept with him, since apparently (in the dream) it had been pretty good; and 2) disappointed that Arthurian Literature was a long-passed memory and now I have to do stupid things with my time like work for IHUM for money (new job, blegh) instead of going to class and listening to stories about King Arthur.

If anyone has an idea of a FUN job that I could do, or at least a NON-ADMIN job (anything!), please, don't hesitate to point it out!

oh for god's sake

I play world of warcraft so infrequently that whenever I do decide to play it it takes like three hours to update. Seriously, WTF? I'm starting to get really pissed off at my laptop in general, which is always slow, makes a horrid fan nose that drives me crazy, and can't seem to play world of warcraft properly, despite having all the correct memory and such and me having defragmented the hard drive. If it doesn't get things together I'm going to have to go watch the OC or fight Dan for the xbox.

Sorry this isn't much of an update. Took my test, my score will probably suck, now onto working on my writing sample and hoping that it will make up for all the major weaknesses of my application.

the old whore's diet gets me going in the morning

Ugh. It is now 7:16 am, and I must report to Santa Clara University by 8:30 to take the evil test on ALL LITERATURE, EVER, that I have been complaining about for weeks now. Daniel isn't even up to make me tea, as I've never seen him up before the highly reasonable hour of 10:30, and I'm not actually sure whether I've seen him up at 10:30, or just awake. So I must struggle though making tea myself, and hope I will still be alive come noon.

On the upside, studying for this evil test has made me realize I'd like to read some of the following which has not been fully explored:

More poems by John Donne
More poems by W.B. Yeats
A novel (or more than one!) by Edith Wharton
Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad

It has also made me realize that I don't want to read:

Anything by Willa Cather
Paradise Lost

And now a quick review of verse forms:

Rhyme Royal: Seven-line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbcc
Ottava Rima: Eight line stanza rhyming abababcc
Terza Rima: A form invented by Dante for the Divine Comedy. Three-line stanzas with an interlocking rhyme scheme proceeding aba bcb cdc ded etc.
Spenserian: Nine-line stanza, the eight of which are iambic pentameter, and the final is iambic hexameter, an alexandrine. ababbcbcc.

And finally:

BLANK VERSE: is the one that is iambic pentameter
FREE VERSE: is the one that's just unrhymed verse in whateveramater

I don't know that tea is sufficiently 'old whore' for this morning.