Whan that Aprille and misc

[hobgoblinn]

First, the irony. Many people said nice stuff about my new chapter of In Loco Parentis, particularly the handling of Harry's illness and transformation. Thanks for that, everybody. I'm up over 100 reviews! Pretty exciting. Perhaps too much so.

Well, I didn't have the transformation, but I did get some completely unnecessary firsthand experience with some of the other aspects of that scene. And I have a headache and fever this morning, so I am staying home to work today. My boss is happy I am keeping my germs to myself. I'm wondering if in addition to the other problems, I might not have some problem with my esophagus. Acid reflux I had while I was pregnant. But this was like something seeping back up and getting breathed into my bronchial tubes. Like a valve that is not always staying closed. Not the most fun way to wake up I can think of. Luckily the new insurance kicks in today and I can go get a real physical and find out just how much my body is falling apart. Can't wait.

Enough of the TMI. I was much cheered to see chaucerhathblog pop up on my f-list this morning. I put it on a RSS feed, and you should, too, if you like words and geeky Medievalist/ Academic jokes and finding out Middle English is not nearly as hard to read as it first appears. And really, really funny parodies. I am indebted to the Great Lady gillo for turning me on to this blog. And today, on this first day of Aprille, good Galfridus Chaucer asks us to "reden of my werkes" and "declayman (read out loud) my tales." He even has a suggestion for an audience:

For charitees sake, ye coulde declaymen them to beggares, leperes, or humorlesse rogues who studien engineerynge. Wherever ye proclaymen them thogh, do yt so in loude voyse and cleere, for yt is only fooles who think a poeme lith on the page aloone.

"Humorless rogues who study engineering"-- that would pretty much be my coworkers. Except, they are pretty humorous, and studied no harder than I did.

Finally, thanks to juno_magic for the icon, which looks like it captures Chaucer's "and the yonge sonne/ Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne" lines. The image comes from another one of my favorite Medieval books, the Book of Hours of the Duc de Berry. Here's a link to her blog, which gives some fascinating information about the book, some links to where it lives on the web, and a bunch more icons.

Comments

[usedtobeljs]

I hope you feel better soon!

[tea and sympathy]

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I feel much better today. Ice cream, better than tea, though.

[nemaihne.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't know your co-workers played WoW too. Here's something for them, then:
http://www.worldofwar.net/forums/showthread.php?t=321756

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

I don't play, so I had no idea that was any kind of ref to the game. We're just computer geeks. But I think a couple of them do play. I'll pass on the link.

[nemaihne.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't do that! It was a link to engineering rogues! ;)

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Oops-- I meant I will pass on (send) the links to my compadres.

To read makes our English Speaking good....

The link was funny, even if I didn;t understand much of it. Thanks again.

Hello from Emmeline

[emmeline33.livejournal.com]

Hi, Hobgobblin! Loved the Middle English! Wonderful suggestion for finding an audience. :)

I was looking for your stories on TPP and came across your Livejournal site. Brilliant! I will be reading In Loco Parentis soon. Thanks for taking a peek at Anthem (and for leaving such nice reviews).

Re: Hello from Emmeline

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Hey, welcome! I'll be over to friend you back in a minute. You might want to read "Lost Boys" first, as it's complete. "Two Dads" is a prologue of sorts but you don't have to read to understand the other. I'll look forward to your feedback, and to getting to know you better on LJ.

I haven't tried other archives yet, really. I submitted Two Dads to Owl and never got a response one way or the other, but I may well have done it wrong. I don't write shipfic, and the archives I read are probably not the most congenial place for genfic.

Glad I turned someone else on to Chaucer's Blog. I was delighted when one of my f-list linked me to it. Makes the geeky grad student I once was chortle with joy. I covet some of their t-shirts, and the Holy Grail beer stein....

Cheers, and again, welcome.