Odd how I've been so into German lately that I've completely neglected Spanish. I miss living in Spain. Oh well, the title of this journal entry represents a tribute to my very first second language. Does being able to read Old English and MIddle English count as additional language fluencies? (Is fluencies a word?) I love dead languages because you are never expected to learn how to speak them, "how to produce unique utterances" as they say in linguistics. I might get the chance to study Latin this summer with one of my favorite professors who I actually hate having as a professor. It would be exciting. And stagnant.

I'm doing a project on Tristan und Isolde for, oddly enough, my Middle English literature class. I actually managed to find a copy of it in the original Middle High German, with a glossary in the back giving translations of the more difficult words into Modern German. I f---ing love dead languages. I have probably ten books sitting here waiting to be included in an annotated bibliography. I'm going to have to spend my Thanksgiving break on this shit. I have three large projects due the Wednesday I get back from break. Hence the caffeine. I can't wait for this semester to be over. I can't wait for next semester to be over. I can't wait for the summer semester to be over. I will finally have graduated!

Maybe I should look at universities outside the US who don't care about GRE scores. U. Toronto has a really good Medieval Studies program. U. Copenhagen has a really sweet Germanic Linguistics program. I'll work things out. And if not, I'll work things out.