on being hectic
Sep. 17th, 2006 11:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baleanopteraI want my life back. I really do.
I’m giving a lecture on the visual culture in 19th Century Germany for the Nordik-conference this coming Friday. The paper for this lecture has to be finished today, so that the person sitting chair for my lecture can work out the questions that will follow my lecture, and make for “an interesting discussion”. A discussion leading scholars in the field will participate in. I’m terrified.
I also need to finish an abstract for my proposed lecture to a conference in Stockholm in April. And revise an article about the use of myth in visual, political rhetoric, and find the pictures for said article and send it to peer-review. Between all this I also have to show up to work at the museum, and prepare a meeting with a professor about my trip to Rome in November.
And all this I have to do by Sunday. I think the only thing at this point driving me forward is coffee and large amounts of high strung nerves.
Ooh – and I’m reading Sarah Monette’s Melusine. It’s so good I can’t stop reading it, even if I really don’t have the time.
I’m giving a lecture on the visual culture in 19th Century Germany for the Nordik-conference this coming Friday. The paper for this lecture has to be finished today, so that the person sitting chair for my lecture can work out the questions that will follow my lecture, and make for “an interesting discussion”. A discussion leading scholars in the field will participate in. I’m terrified.
I also need to finish an abstract for my proposed lecture to a conference in Stockholm in April. And revise an article about the use of myth in visual, political rhetoric, and find the pictures for said article and send it to peer-review. Between all this I also have to show up to work at the museum, and prepare a meeting with a professor about my trip to Rome in November.
And all this I have to do by Sunday. I think the only thing at this point driving me forward is coffee and large amounts of high strung nerves.
Ooh – and I’m reading Sarah Monette’s Melusine. It’s so good I can’t stop reading it, even if I really don’t have the time.
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Date: 2006-09-18 09:17 pm (UTC)BTW - have you read the two ASOIAF short stories that Martin wrote for the Legends books? They are set a hundred years before the main books, but I like them. It gives a few hints about Rheagar and Summerhall etc.
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Date: 2006-09-18 10:15 pm (UTC)BTW - have you read the two ASOIAF short stories that Martin wrote for the Legends books?
This is interesting! I have heard of "Hedge Knight" - is this the one you mean?
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Date: 2006-09-19 06:41 am (UTC)See - this might work. For heaven knows the advise about picturing the people naked isn't very helpful. As if giving a presentation isn't nerve-wracking enough - but now there is an audience of naked people!? Old, naked professors? Gyah....
This is interesting! I have heard of "Hedge Knight" - is this the one you mean?
That is the first one, and it's followed by The Sworn Sword. They are both on anthologies titled Legends 1 & 2 respectively. They are set in the glory days of the Targaryen kings - so they really give you an impression of the Targaryen family. Apparently it's a Targaryen trait to have prophetic dreams *coughJoncough*