I Passed! I Passed!

I officially passed comps! Huzzah! Now that part of me that couldn't completely be excited about being accepted into the PhD program--'cause what if I didn't really get to go--can now dream freely! I'm really, really going to get my doctorate!

I've been looking at courses the past day and trying to figure out what I'm going to take the next few years. Unfortunately, class lists are so unpredictable that I can't plan much beyond next semester. I suppose I have no choice but to deal with that. Next semester I get to take a Postcolonial class and one on the Bloomsbury group!

I just bought the cd All You Need Is Live by Cowboy Mouth. I saw them in concert this summer, and it is an experience like no other. I was screaming so loud I almost threw up; being a normally sedate and placid individual, this was a new sensation. But I really bought the song for the song "Everyone Loves Jill" which is just happy. Everything in the song is red. Sample lyrics:
She drives a red car
Drives her red hat
She's got a red door
Plays with her red cat
She's got a red light
That lights up her red room
She eats her red cake
With my favorite red spoon
At which point in the concert, everybody threw red plastics spoons at the stage; there were hundreds of people prepared for this, while I was unaware.

I had conferences with all my students this week, which took up an enormous amount of time, plus I was writing two papers for my grad classes. I'm excited to get back to a more normal schedule where I can concentrate more on my teaching (I still have papers from the second week in February to return) and my weekly work in my own classes.