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There really is nothing like rocking one's finals to make one feel like an utter genius.

So yeah, orals kicked ass--I talked for a ridicuously long time on both my chosen questions, so I only had a few minutes for each of the others...Taylor asked me about the epic conventions in "The Rape of the Lock," so I rattled off what I could remember in two minutes; & Olsen asked me to talk about Freud's super-ego & politics, which was a breeze. Wirth made a personalized question, which cracked me up but was lots of fun--based on the fact that he sees both romanticism (from my answer about Byronic heros & my love of theater) & enlightenment scientific rationality (based on my marx & robots paper), relate all five philosophers to those two bulwarks of history. Ahaha, ok. Sure.

& I think history went fairly well, too...we got to choose questions & so I was able to do three that I knew best, which is always good.

& now all I have left is my poly-sci paper. If I can get it finished today, tomorrow will be entirely Firefly with Andrew & Tartuffe rehersal, probably the best day ever. Wa-hey!

ETA: Ok, I feel like a bit of a doof proclaiming this but OOO I want THIS for my birthday!