Three weeks ago I started having cluster migraines. If you've had these headaches, you know how awful they are. If you haven't had them, I hope you never do. It started out as eyestrain. I thought I had done too much reading, but then I started waking up with eyestrain, and then headaches that wouldn't go away. I confined myself to my bedroom (windows covered so no light could get in) for three days or so, hoping that they would go away if I rested my eyes. I couldn't read books or look at a computer screen. I still wrote my 750+ words a day, but only by typing with my eyes closed. I'm getting better now (wearing sunglasses in the house helped), and I'll probably get some tinted reading glasses to help with the light sensitivity that I'm still experiencing, but for the most part, I'm back to normal.
All of that to say this: I'm seriously behind with my reading, and writing for Camp NaNoWriMo. I've decided that none of this could be helped, however, and I'm not going to risk straining my eyes too much in order to catch up.
My graduate school session in Sewanee is coming up in June, so I'm slowly making my way through assigned reading. I'm currently reading Homer's Iliad (from The Essential Homer). I have six other texts to read for this course (Classical Literature in Translation, taught by Christopher McDonough), including Hesiod's Theogony, and works by Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle and Aeschylus. So, I have my reading cut out for me in that department. My other course is Shakespeare with Ann Cook, and luckily, she puts more emphasis on watching the plays than reading them. This is fortunate for me, because I'm not a Shakespeare fan (as blasphemous as that sounds coming from a grad student of English lit).
Books I'm currently reading:
All of that to say this: I'm seriously behind with my reading, and writing for Camp NaNoWriMo. I've decided that none of this could be helped, however, and I'm not going to risk straining my eyes too much in order to catch up.
My graduate school session in Sewanee is coming up in June, so I'm slowly making my way through assigned reading. I'm currently reading Homer's Iliad (from The Essential Homer). I have six other texts to read for this course (Classical Literature in Translation, taught by Christopher McDonough), including Hesiod's Theogony, and works by Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle and Aeschylus. So, I have my reading cut out for me in that department. My other course is Shakespeare with Ann Cook, and luckily, she puts more emphasis on watching the plays than reading them. This is fortunate for me, because I'm not a Shakespeare fan (as blasphemous as that sounds coming from a grad student of English lit).
Books I'm currently reading:
- Pizza, Love, and Other Stuff that Made Me Famous by Kathryn Williams (a Sewanee SOL classmate of mine).
- The Family Fang: A Novel by Kevin Wilson (professor at Sewanee)
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare (trying to finish this series up)
