jadesfire

Another productive day! All of you who are sending me chocolate, red bull and dissertating vibes are doing sterling work - please keep it up because exhaustion's starting to set in. The good news is that I'm still interested in what I'm reading, which I think counts as a miracle, and I'm now into the 18th and 19th centuries on my 1500 year trawl through the history of libraries. I've got to say, it's fascinating stuff and I don't want to stop! *ponders DPhil again* Maybe in a couple of years...

I'm just about done at Duke Humfrey's, which is quite sad, so I'm thinking of having all my remaining stack requests sent there, just because I can :) I'd also forgotten that management-speak has got nothing on writers of 'cultural studies', although art historians still win the pretentiousness race. I may have read a good article on 'bibliomania' in Romantic England, but I couldn't really tell because the author appeared to have eaten a thesaurus for breakfast, and one that discarded all words under four syllables. *sigh* But I'm gathering lots of fun quotes, and am currently trying to work out if my references to Borges, Eco and Stoppard are useful or self-indulgent. I guess it'll depend on the word count.

Oh, and before I forget, I managed to have a skim of my flist tonight (go me!) and this story by laurab1 demonstrates exactly what bringthehappy is for. It made me laugh, awwww and grin all at the same time. And all in 420 words. Brilliant.