If memory serves right, "hwaet" is the first word that appears in line one of Beowulf, which means "pay attention." I wonder if I can say it when/if the students get rowdy? whipping out the Old English -- that's the other project for the summer. I've accepted the TA-ship, and I'm feeling strangely excited about the texts we'll be covering, plus working with students. If i don't have to think about public speaking, a podium and microphone, I might just manage -- for the summer, at least. Though maybe it is only my wishful thinking. It's funny -- I deliberately left all my English lit books behind me, thinking I will never have to visit any of it again. Gah! Return of the past?
Otherwise, I read an interesting essay entitled "The Construction of Heterosexuality" by law professor/legal scholar Janet Halley, and it was interesting to read law academics discuss how litigators should be critical about legal definitions that rest on essentialist claims. It was interesting to think about identity politics in the eyes of the law, anyway.
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