Medievalists: SO Deep
This has gotta be quick, y'all, cause I'm at the Public Library in York and they're going to shut me down soon.
But I am SO pumped! I am in YORK! Which looks just like YORK! And I can't understand a damn thing anybody says to me!
This is especially exciting cause I don't often run into dialects of English I can't comprehend. It is so liberating to not know what the hell the taxi driver says. Sorta like being in France, where I understand little bits of things, usually about 3 minutes after they've said them, when it's too late.
So I'm here, and I'm having my Treat, which is A Day and A Half in York, and I have Big Plans for tomorrow.
I'm going to go see the recent archeological excavations over at the original Viking city. Then I'm walking the route for the York Cycle Plays. Big day. Right now I'm going off to see York Minster, which, bizarrely enough, looks just like its photographs.
Also. To get here to the library I walked down Dame Judi Dench Walk.* I am a happy girl. I got nothing going on here except fun.
Let's see -- the paper went well; had great discussions afterward about the fenlands, so that was nice. Helpful burly Yorkshiremen threw my bag around at the train station -- also nice. If they'd managed to actually throw it into the River Ouse, I'd have been happier, but getting it in the taxi was good enough, really.
I walk back tonight (along the said River Ouse) and get dinner at the B&B, which is sort of a B&B and sort of a hotel.
Tonight, I have a TV, and will be able to catch up on Big Brother.
And this is what I want to leave you with -- most heated and passionate discussion I had at the medievalists' conference?
Several medievalists sitting around the dinner table, discussing Big Brother. "Where did they GET those guys? They are AWFUL!"
That, I believe, was our main, fully scholarly and academic, point.
Deep. That's what medievalists are.
*For those of you who don't know this, Judi Dench's first professional role was as the Virgin Mary in a production of the York Mystery Plays. Oh, she's young, in those pictures. But she's a York woman. And she appreciates medieval drama. My kind of girl.
But I am SO pumped! I am in YORK! Which looks just like YORK! And I can't understand a damn thing anybody says to me!
This is especially exciting cause I don't often run into dialects of English I can't comprehend. It is so liberating to not know what the hell the taxi driver says. Sorta like being in France, where I understand little bits of things, usually about 3 minutes after they've said them, when it's too late.
So I'm here, and I'm having my Treat, which is A Day and A Half in York, and I have Big Plans for tomorrow.
I'm going to go see the recent archeological excavations over at the original Viking city. Then I'm walking the route for the York Cycle Plays. Big day. Right now I'm going off to see York Minster, which, bizarrely enough, looks just like its photographs.
Also. To get here to the library I walked down Dame Judi Dench Walk.* I am a happy girl. I got nothing going on here except fun.
Let's see -- the paper went well; had great discussions afterward about the fenlands, so that was nice. Helpful burly Yorkshiremen threw my bag around at the train station -- also nice. If they'd managed to actually throw it into the River Ouse, I'd have been happier, but getting it in the taxi was good enough, really.
I walk back tonight (along the said River Ouse) and get dinner at the B&B, which is sort of a B&B and sort of a hotel.
Tonight, I have a TV, and will be able to catch up on Big Brother.
And this is what I want to leave you with -- most heated and passionate discussion I had at the medievalists' conference?
Several medievalists sitting around the dinner table, discussing Big Brother. "Where did they GET those guys? They are AWFUL!"
That, I believe, was our main, fully scholarly and academic, point.
Deep. That's what medievalists are.
*For those of you who don't know this, Judi Dench's first professional role was as the Virgin Mary in a production of the York Mystery Plays. Oh, she's young, in those pictures. But she's a York woman. And she appreciates medieval drama. My kind of girl.
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