Why do I fail at falling asleep at nighttime?

[hermionesviolin]

The 2006-7 catalog should be up within a few weeks, but I've been browsing the 2005-06.

RA and I are thinking of taking ENGL E-159  James Joyce: Ulysses and the Early Fiction.

I'm thinking an ALM in Religion.  I really don't know whether I'll actually complete a degree, but I figure I should have some idea of a goal (if for no other reason than to be able to give people the sorts of answers they wanna hear when they ask about my future plans ;) ).

RA suggested div school.  The courses make me drool.  I could try the MTS -- ooh, and they'll let me use Spanish as my language requirement fulfillment.  (I'd actually been wanting to take a Spanish class.)  Oh, wait, all the courses are during the day.  Though most are only one day a week, so I could probably actually swing that, 'cause they're only 2-3 hours long.  Being a perpetual Extension School student feels like it makes much more sense, though.

[Sidenote: I fail for not getting on the ball re: the computer classes.  The summer sessions are all full now.]

Comments

[sk8eeyore.livejournal.com]

Haha, it completely tickles me that you would even consider div school. Yeah, HDS definitely had the most drool-worthy course offerings from what I remember.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I did a double-take when RA suggested it, 'cause I think of div school as, well, something believers do, and I am v. v. intellectual/academic to the point of sceptic in my approach to theology (despite being attached to some of what I grew up with) but she said there are different tracks (she knows various people doing div school) and yeah, checking out the courses.... I like the Extension School Religion offerings, too, though, and they don't require scheduling rejiggering, so they're much more likely.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

You know, so many of friends have huge hardons for Joyce, and I've never read him. I just have no interest. Although, in fairness, it could turn out like Moby Dick. I didn't read that book until I was in graduate school; I'd avoided it like the plague, but then I had to teach it. *Twice* And ended up loving it. Or well, most of it.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

OH and Yay for taking classes.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the idea of getting to read texts and discuss them with people enlivens me; I'd forgotten just what a charge I get out of that. (Anticipatorily, anyway. I am holding out no hope that the classes will actually be any good -- because going in with no expectations means you can be pleasantly surprised, rather than the reverse; cynic, me? ;) )

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

In high school, an older friend of mine told me to never read Ulysses outside of a class, and I've never had any real interest in reading Joyce. This whole "usage of a classic story you already love" has a definite draw, though. And I've been meaning to re/read The Odyssey (my mom read me a prose version when I was a kid) so this is an added incentive to do that.

Moby Dick doesn't even really make it onto my Classics I Should Have Read list because it's so long. A guy I knew in elementary school read it (when we were in elementary school!) which just boggled me, even as the precocious reader I was.