My Delay Belies My Enthusiasm – Really!

Quick greetings! Technology consistently conspires against me, in a passionately unhealthy love-hate relationship. Thankfully, our latest lover’s quarrel has ceased and I am here, with at least the spirit of a blaze of glory…

I had absolutely no interest in this course when I saw it available in March, especially as I struggled through the slog – yes, slog – of Restoration and 18th century drama. Sad, but true. However, in London this May (as I got up every morning in hopes of finding my marks on webct) I found myself genuinely excited to see the portrait of William Congreve in the National Portrait Gallery and had a genuine (and not as perverse as it may sound) desire to try on Horatio Nelson’s cute little trousers. By a surely providential coincidence I then found myself employed, here at home, at the Loyalist House (a most delightful, albeit a tad fraudulent and equally musty, little tourist trap. There, wearing a sad excuse for 18th Century-esque garb (already mystifyingly out of place in a house built in 1810 and furnished with pieces from about 1830, but who am I to question?), and perusing the antique book collection of the New Brunswick Historical Society, I began to read Pamela for pleasure, and the course of my life (meaning my fall term) changed forever. And so here I am.