Once upon a time ...

Back to school this week; a new semester has started after an insanely long (SIX WEEKS!) Crimbo break. The topic? Fairy Tale and Gothic Horror! This is more like it. Sessions on "mad women in the attic" and "cannibalism, wolves, werewolves", films like A Company of Wolves, The Curse of Frankenstein, and Rebecca, and articles entitled "From Nags to Witches: Stepmothers and Other Ogres." Midway, we have another insanely long break -- this time FOUR WEEKS off for Easter -- and then I have to give a presentation on Functions and Ideologies: Subversive Texts of Civilizing Missions? Fun! Plus, more people in the seminar class. Last term, I was one of only two who turned up on a regular basis, but we're starting off with seven people this time round, so hopefully I won't have to do all the talking. Even I need to skive off from time to time.