Literary Square One

I am guiltily taking time to write this blog post. I have precious little since I promised certain people some substantial work today which is only in the notes phase. Yes, dear readers, I am back at the drawing board for my proposal. What is this, number 7? Anyway, I had an enlightening, kind of confusing, and somewhat inspiring meeting of which I will spare you the details. Of course I have been saddled with piles of grading, lesson planning, etc, so I have not made as much headway on the new work as I would like. Now they are clamoring at the gates, not unkindly, but my weary soul is struggling to find the sense of duty I owe them. By the way, my readers, you may attribute this overly dramatic language to my having been absorbed into Jane Eyre for the last week. Yesterday I could barely summon the energy to have dinner with my sister (who is solely in my care this month), and today I am still sluggish.
I promise you, I have a post in the works about my Book Club experience as well as a fun post on teaching Chaucer and an exasperated post on the current state of plagiarism in my class. In the meantime, I leave you with this fun little image that made me laugh out loud:

From Phd Comics - helping me survive Grad School