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Cheers!īut not having my password erased it all. I have never regretted anything, and things tuned out okay. I never stressed out, assuming life always would take its strange twists and turns regardless of my own intentions. Big confession: I failed my medieval exam the first time I took it, partly because I was too casual in my preparation, but mainly because a close friend of mine was having a psychotic breakdown and needed my sustained attention. When I was in graduate school, some of my closest friends were horrified that, as I got closer and closer to exam and other 'qualifying' requirements, that I could often be found building dry-stack stone walls in my garden or reading back issues of the 'New Yorker' on my front porch, while, of course, also 'prepping' my exam texts: close friends thought I was crazy because I wasn't freaking out like they were. Good luck, MKH, and congrats on this whole serenity/leaf on the wind affair: you've got it exactly right. Never mind that the last time he says it, he gets impaled by in-coming spear.

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Those of you familiar with Joss Whedon's Firefly and the movie it spawned will recognize that as a recurring line for the Wash, the pilot of the ship named the Serenity. This one more thing, and it's on to building a career. This one more thing, and then I can start writing. Doesn't make me any less scared, but it does lend a sort of a serenity of purpose to the whole exercise.

A chance to dress up, get very nervous, and prove (once again) I know more than I think I do. The oral exams have already accomplished what they were supposed to - I have a dissertation topic, even if to date my favorite way to express is 'Time does weird things in vernacular texts dealing with the 'English' nation in the periods immediately pre- and post-conquest.' So really this is a formality. I definitely need to re-write my Chaucer list justification. Maybe a few 'sit down and write about what I said I was interested in' sorts of exercises. A few stray Canterbury Tales I wouldn't mind re-reading (though given that I lectured on the Pardoner a year or so ago in a class I TA'd for, perhaps my notes for that will suffice). It's mostly note-taking and articles now.

I know what needs to be done - I could probably make a list of it. I've resisted the idea of making a schedule of my work, right to the very end. Which means reviewing Bede and Aelfric, reading some articles (and a book) on the same, and then.well, whatever seems to be next on my list.

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Last night? Bede's De Arte Metrica, and the work on Tropes that I can't remember how to spell (thank goodness these are orals, eh?) Today, I'm prepping for my final meeting with my major list adviser. Yesterday it was re-reading and taking notes on Chaucer. When I'm not serene, I'm obsessively reading something. It's funny, but the closer I get to my exams, the more serene I am - during my serene periods, that is.