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I'm cold. I've been noticing lately that the air conditioning in pretty much all the places I have classes or work is cranked up much higher than necessary for the ambient outside temperature. I need to remember to start carrying a long-sleeved overshirt around with me everywhere.

I'm also not having a really crappy weekend, reading-wise. I've been in brood-mood for most of the weekend (excepting the Flogging Molly concert, of course, in which I was the anti-brood). The problem with brood-mood is that it's actually pretty good for getting active type stuff accomplished, like cleaning and washing the dishes and even running errands. But it's really bad for getting the intellectual type stuff accomplished, like all the reading I have to do. I have about 10 pages of Spenser (read, 10 pages of poetry and about 15 worth of footnotes so that you *understand* the poetry) for Tuesday and about the same amount for Thursday, which really isn't too bad. But I've also got about 60 pages of Walden left that really need to be read by Tuesday, because I have a paper due Friday on it, and I'll need some time to synthesise.

I slacked off at work yesterday and putzed around on the internet the whole time. Drove around for awhile and ended up out by Lake Murray, where I sat on a picnic bench and got about 15 pages of Walden read before I went home and cleaned up a bit, and then [livejournal.com profile] mmirabilis and I went out to dinner and watched a movie which was good and fun and lifted my brood-mood for awhile. So far today I've gotten another 15 pages read, but brood-mood is back in full force and it's like pulling eye-teeth to not only read but understand. I'm trying to take good notes, too, to help with the essay-writing later in the week, but that's just making the reading go slower.

Even promising myself that I can start Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell tomorrow night if I finish my reading in time is not inspiring me to actually get the reading done. I really hate days like this.

Date: 2004-09-26 03:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] luis-mw.livejournal.com
I think my reaction to a poem that needed that many footnotes would be to find a different poem. But I guess you don't have that choice.

Date: 2004-09-26 03:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwynraven.livejournal.com
nope, not really. The language of Spenser is sort of halfway between reading Shakespeare and reading Chaucer in the original. Spenser is a contemporary of Shakespeare's, but he liked to use really archaic terms and sentence structures, and employed a lot of Chaucerian language. So a modern reader pretty much needs that many footnotes just to read the poem, much less interpret it.

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