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My oral final is an hour, and I really want it to be now. I think if I try to study any more I'll go mad. I'm at that point where I feel like I don't know a lot if I just think about it generally, but if I start talking I realize I do actually know plenty. I'll be fine. I just want to get it over with, really. Blargh.
I am actually terrifically excited about the Lit portion. Ye gods, I am a nerd. Ehehe.

I suppose I could tell Taylor about this, though he might already know: They're making a film of Paradise Lost. Which is insane, but there you go. Philip Pullman had something to say about that. Oy. What a project. I'm kind of scared...although I will admit I am intrigued as well. But still. Some things should probably not be made into films, and I'm thinking Milton is one of them...

yah-hey!

Damn, I love it when they have to shut me up. Yes! As far as I can tell my oral went pretty well--I talked about philo (check check check, all he's doing is listening for buzzwords), and about why Sonnet 18 isn't by Donne, and about the centrality of 2.4 in Henry IV and then about Industrialization and Romanticism as the dividing line between medieval and early modern. Phew. I am so glad that's over.

Also, last night Patrick and my parents and I went to Restoration Comedy at the Rep...he's already pretty much said everything, but just to reiterate:
a) Amy Freed is a genius with anachronisms and making the period really work.
b) Amy Freed is also effing hilarious.
c) Amy Freed and Sharon Ott are a dream team and they make plays brilliant.
d) I love self-referential plays. "Damn these minimalist sets! There's nowhere to hide!"
e) "Why do we do these plays? The COSTUMES!"
f) Sex. Sex sex sex sex sex lies infidelity verse sex costumes set sex sex sex.
g) Go see it. Completely and utterly worth the price of a ticket, even if you aren't paying student price. It's brilliant. Actually, call me, cause I want to go again.

And now I have to finish my paper. Part of me feels kind of bad at how little effort I'm really putting into it...and most of me just doesn't care. God, I'm ready to be done...