Rawr! Today I am a tired dinosaur. Actually this morning I was a tired dinosaur and stayed in bed until 9:30am and still got to school in time to buy a HUGE cup of coffee and a protein bar before Patti's 10am class. We had a quiz that I was completely unprepared for, but actually may done well on. Thank God we talk about the course material in class most of the time. There was only one question that I struggled with: what was the original meaning of 'romance'? I answered 'something Middle Englishy'. What I really should have said was 'something Middle Frenchy'. Oh well, live and learn. Oh hey look at that, I finally used a Mary Ann Purnellism (usually they only come from Lance).
After talking my way through a made up answer, I had my second and last class of the day. My second and last class of the day is also with Patti in the room next door to my first class (I realize that I have have such a strenuous Friday). Half the class was absent and so we took our time getting started. One of my classmates is reading James Joyce's Ulysses. Apparently in the book Joyce discusses 'tightened scotums' gross indeedy and dear sweet Father F. decided to talk about that phrase is his class. My classmate had no idea what he was talking about so he decided to bring it up in Patti's class. Let's just say Patti was not going there with a ten foot pole. Instead we discussed Community and the awesome paintball episodes. He was going to talk about last night's episode, but I shut that down real quick since I hadn't seen it yet (I watched it as soon as I got home). We spent the first twenty minutes talking about non-class related things and we still got out early. I love Friday's with Patti. Amy you missed an awesome class, Randy found out he could go to grad school for free in the midwest.
This is what we discussed in Middle English today. Not quite Marie de France, but still pretty awesome.
