Yesterday was my Birthday!

so that means I'm now 22. this I hope is a slightly less rediculous age that 21, which I always thought hat someone was going to call me on, because I still look aproximalty 18. oh well, better than a few years ago when I persitanlty looked 14. that was wierd, I was never sure weither boys were being creepy or not when they hit on me.

so for my birthday, dad and Melanie took me to lunch and a bead store (I love beads!) then I went to class, and then to fencing, and then to random pancakes in third court lounge. mmmmm they were excellent.
then I came home and david told me that the laptop I have is completely useless, because it has no disc drives of any kind, and is running windows 95. yeah. It cannot talk to anything else.

so now I'm on ebay bidding on a laptop with a fricking drive.

In other news I made a thesis outline, which I'm sure you are all just dying to see. ready?

Some Modern Interpretations of the Demeter/ Persephone Myth
Basic Outline

I. Introduction

II. Classical Antecedents

A. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

1. Source and Origin
2. Basic Summery

B. Ovid Metamorphoses

1. Source and Origin
2. Basic Summery

C. Claudian Rape of Proserpine

1. Source and Origin
2. Basic Summery

III. Critical Ways of Thinking About the Myth, New and Old

A. How did the Hymn work in the ancient world? (Foley et al.)

B. Archetypal female myth

1. Jung
2. Rich
3. Graves

C. Feminist Readings
1. Gilligan
2. French Feminism
3. Eco Feminism
4. Triumvirate goddess

IV. Modern Interpretations
A. Hawthorne The Pomegranate Seeds

1. Source and Author
2. Summery
3. What is the Author doing with the myth?
4. How does this resemble other versions or interpretations
5. Critical readings of text?
B. D.H. Lawrence “Bavarian Gentians”

1. Source and Author
2. Summery
3. What is the Author doing with the myth?
4. How does this resemble other versions or interpretations
5. Critical readings of text?

C. Atwood Double Persephone, Procedures for Underground, Negotiating with the Dead

1. Source and Author
2. Summery
3. What is the Author doing with the myth?
4. How does this resemble other versions or interpretations
5. Critical readings of text?

D. Dove Mother Love

1. Source and Author
2. Summery
3. What is the Author doing with the myth?
4. How does this resemble other versions or interpretations
5. Critical readings of text?

E. Messner-Loebs and Kieth Epicurus the Sage

1. Source and Author
2. Summery
3. What is the Author doing with the myth?
4. How does this resemble other versions or interpretations
5. Critical readings of text?

F. Hubbard “In This World Our Daughters Have No Chance.”

1. Source and Author
2. Summery
3. What is the Author doing with the myth?
4. How does this resemble other versions or interpretations
5. Critical readings of text?

V. Original Work

1. “Love, Demeter”
2. “Seeds”

IV. Conclusion


wheeee! progress! this when paired with the 7 pages I've written and the 9 page paper give me approximalty 1/8th of what I need to stay on schedule before January.
Sigh

I love short hand!

You are 'Gregg shorthand'. Originally designed to
enable people to write faster, it is also very
useful for writing things which one does not
want other people to read, inasmuch as almost
no one knows shorthand any more.

You know how important it is to do things
efficiently and on time. You also value your
privacy, and (unlike some people) you do not
pretend to be friends with just everyone; that
would be ridiculous. When you do make friends,
you take them seriously, and faithfully keep
what they confide in you to yourself.
Unfortunately, the work which you do (which is
very important, of course) sometimes keeps you
away from social activities, and you are often
lonely. Your problem is that Gregg shorthand
has been obsolete for a long time.


What obsolete skill are you?
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of course after reading Emergance by David Palmer, (an excellent book with I highly recogmend,)
I totally wanted to learn short hand, but never got around to it. and it probably would have been Pittman anyway.