lily_handmaiden

It's taken me a long time to get to this, and I don't really have much of an excuse. I graduated, and it was wonderful. Other minor things have happened. Most of the time I've been cleaning my room-- it is SO CLEAN!-- working, and recapping. I'm also moving all my icons to a new photobucket in a project I'm calling The Great Icon Migration of '08.

But now, at last, the very last one of these for my undergrad experience...

Quotes of the Semester, Winter-Spring 2008

“There are no happy endings before 1066!” –Dominique

“If you go for the girl, you don’t just get a girl—you ruin your entire civilization!” –Dominique, on the plight of the epic hero

“I’m giving you the jacket of the woman who caused the downfall of my entire civilization. Enjoy it. It should keep you warm.” –Dominique, as Aeneas

“He gets his men into an incredible fix—because some of them get eaten. That’s a problem.” –Dominique on Odysseus

“He’s not going to succumb to lovesickness. He’s going to take his Vitamin C, dammit!” –Dominique, again on Aeneas

“Aeneas, you’re no longer a man—you’re a wuss!” –Dominique

“Ovid’s Heroides: the most glorified fanfiction of all time.” –my notes

“He’s in an emotional love-bath right now.” -Dominique on Yvain

“You get hermits like this. They just… they’re out there. He leaves bowls of food for him. Like he’s a stray cat.” –Dominique on the madness episode in Yvain.

“People just love disguise! People are always disguising themselves as something.” –Dominique on epic

“I feel like if this book was about Etzel, it would be a romantic comedy. ‘Oh, I have a wife! … Oh, no!!’” -someone in class, on the unfortunate marriage of Etzel and Kriemhild

“Okay, she turns into a fountain, that’s sad, too. That’s tragic.” –Dominique

“They’ve cracked open the same cookbook that has a French title.” –Dominique on The Nibelungenlied and Tristan

“My life had stood—a loaded Daffodil.” –Kathy explores what would happen if Emily Dickinson used more feminine imagery

“EMILY DICKINSON DISAPPROVES.” –my notes

“Oh, that Ted. He’s a bastard.” –Kathy on Sylvia’ Plath’s husband

“I suppose guilty lesbians send flowers, too.” –Nikki

“Let’s meet at the graveyard! We can kiss!” –Dominique, on Liebestod conventions

“Ah, the steward—the medieval Mr. Collins.” –my notes

“I HATE YOU!” “… Is it because I killed your uncle?” –presentation on Tristan

“Apparently, I will have to be the brains of this operation.” –Abby as Brangaine

“Ach mein Gottfriend von Strassburg!” -the same presentation

“My pencil broke, so I should probably just die.” –mentality in Romeo and Juliet

“Parents that are keeping them apart, walls that are keeping them apart, lionesses that appear out of nowhere…” -Dominique on epic landscapes in the Liebestod

“I oppress you with my vowels.” –Jim, accent workshop

“Our rehearsal is canceled because of Jaques Cousteau's son. Who would have guessed when Jacques Cousteu began his explorations that his son would cancel our rehearsal all these years later.” –Jake, on the cancellation of Hay Fever rehearsal

“NO BREAKING PROPS OR CHARACTER!” -cast motto during Hay Fever

“Most not-caring people would walk right past. But you take the time to not care.” –Jake directs Clara in Hay Fever

"It's hot coffee to the audience, dumbass!" -Jake gently coaches Ian on how acting is pretending

"There are no books in that library, Sorel!" "I know there aren't; that isn't what libraries are for!" "It's what they should be for, and I absolutely refuse to do what you have in mind in a room that is meant for books!" "You're no fun at all! I'll never have sexual intercourse with you as long as I live!" -Bryan and myself, in character and Richard and Sorel

“Fierce. Stoic. Varrius for Men.” -Whitney and myself on her character, Measure for Measure

“How else… are you supposed to put out fire? With a cistern of sand?” –my notes on a dumb Jane Eyre presentation about Jane symbolically putting out fire with water, undergrad conference

“Why is St. John tracking a female symbol all over Jane’s floor?” –my notes, same presentation, undergrad conference

“See, my night began with recapping, but is rapidly turning to vengeance.” –Michael

“WHY DOES THE ‘CRETIVE’ PROCESS TAKE SO LONG?! SHE’S SO TWISTED LOL!” -Michael on the beautiful frustration of omalleyanatomy26

"Erin, you don't know him! He could be a straight-up pimp!" -Michael, on Zack from Bones. There was a bit about Zack on Maury which I don't remember, sadly.

"The unfortunate effects of beheading include, but are not limited to, eventual death." -me, explaining what I learned at Kalamazoo

"He would roam DC with a comically oversized magnifying glass, looking for bugs and slime, but finding CONSPIRACY! 'That Is Not A Conspiracy, Doctor Hodgins. That Is The United States Senate.'" -Michael on my proposed spinoff Hodgins

Unfortunately, I couldn't write down all the funny things that were said this semester, so don't feel left out. I'm sure that you said all kinds of hilarious things, but I had stupidly forgotten my notebook or was feeling lazy.

And finally, as a tribute to my wonderful friends at Hanover, I have made some icons just for you guys: