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Too much stuff to do . . .

Well, I got my topic worked out with my Shakespeare professor. I'm looking at Midsummer Night's Dream and the use of the British/Celtic world of the forest vs. the Greek world of Athens. She seems to think I'm in a much better position than I think I am. By Monday, I have to submit a one-page "this is what I'm going to do" prospectus, which means that between now and Sunday night I have to read tons of criticism and try and figure out what's been done and what's left for me to do. I *hate* reading criticism. In addition to all the stuff I have to read for the prospectus, I also have to read a pretty long piece on Richard IIand the representation of monarchy in Elizabethan England and write a one-page summary, also by Monday. Oh, and I have to read 1 Henry IV by Wednesday. And 2 chapters for my bibliography class.

I think my brain is going to explode.

exhorting and dehorting

The word exhort is relatively familiar, particularly in the scholarly world, as a nice pompous way of saying "encourage". But today in my reading for Shakespeare, I came across the phrase "exhorting them to allegeance, dehorting them from all traitorous and fellonous stratagems". I'd never heard of dehorting before. I resolve to use it often. Perhaps I can dehort my professor from giving us so many d*mn reading assignments . . .