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Earlier today, I was feeling rather gloomy. Then I received an email from the chair of a fellowship committee.

Folks, I'm getting paid to go look at manuscripts in England this summer.

Now I just have to do enough background research to be able to recognize what I'll be looking at.

Date: 2005-03-17 11:18 pm (UTC)
ext_13979: (Griffin)
From: [identity profile] ajodasso.livejournal.com
Congrats on getting yours.

Date: 2005-03-18 03:30 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
Thank you!

Date: 2005-03-17 11:28 pm (UTC)
genarti: Knees-down view of woman on tiptoe next to bookshelves (candle flame)
From: [personal profile] genarti
Eee! Congratulations!

Date: 2005-03-18 03:30 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
Diolch yn fawr!

Date: 2005-03-17 11:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emidala.livejournal.com
excellent. hearty congratulations! :)

Date: 2005-03-18 03:30 am (UTC)
ext_27060: Sumer is icomen in; llude sing cucu! (Default)
From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
That icon is fantastic.

Also, thanks!

Date: 2005-03-17 11:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] le-cloitre.livejournal.com
congratulations!

Date: 2005-03-18 03:30 am (UTC)

Date: 2005-03-17 11:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] muchabstracted.livejournal.com
Yay!

I really have nothing else to say. But what better thing to say?

Date: 2005-03-18 03:31 am (UTC)
ext_27060: Sumer is icomen in; llude sing cucu! (Default)
From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
Besides four emails and an awesome mp3, you mean. :)

Date: 2005-03-18 03:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] muchabstracted.livejournal.com
Erm, yes. That. But I hadn't said "yay" on your LJ yet!

Date: 2005-03-17 11:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vitabeata.livejournal.com
Amazing! Congratulations indeed! What will you be working on?

Date: 2005-03-18 03:32 am (UTC)
ext_27060: Sumer is icomen in; llude sing cucu! (Default)
From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
Manuscripts written in England in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries; specifically, I'm looking at whether they can be considered as anthologies or "mere" miscellanies.

Date: 2005-03-18 04:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vitabeata.livejournal.com
Oooh-- that sounds really cool! How did you get interested in that? We have a professor here at NYU who works on similar stuff, who told me once about how she structured her dissertation (at UCB) so that she just *had* to be funded to go over and look at some stuff in the British Library.

Date: 2005-03-18 06:52 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
It's sort of preliminary work for the diss. I think I'm going to be looking at a specific MS or two* and examining how issues of race relations pervade the entire MSS. The assumption that these MSS are indeed anthologies rather than miscellanies underlies my whole argument, so I rather have to prove that anthologies exist in thirteenth-century manuscripts before I assume that the MSS I'm working with are anthologies.

*Which I'm not identifying here for purposes of Google, not that it's hard to figure out who I am, really.

Date: 2005-03-18 03:32 am (UTC)
ext_27060: Sumer is icomen in; llude sing cucu! (Default)
From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
Also, thanks!

Date: 2005-03-17 11:57 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gramarye1971
Ee, wonderful!

Date: 2005-03-18 03:32 am (UTC)
ext_27060: Sumer is icomen in; llude sing cucu! (Default)
From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
Thank you!

We should meet up some time. :)

Date: 2005-03-17 11:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caffeinediary.livejournal.com
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

Date: 2005-03-18 03:33 am (UTC)
ext_27060: Sumer is icomen in; llude sing cucu! (Default)
From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
THANK YOUUUUUU!

Date: 2005-03-18 12:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladybird97.livejournal.com
Wheeeeeeee! *hug* Congratulations! That's wonderful!

Date: 2005-03-18 03:33 am (UTC)
ext_27060: Sumer is icomen in; llude sing cucu! (Default)
From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
*hug* Thank you! Have I said I love the little yellow guy?

Date: 2005-03-18 12:09 am (UTC)
agonistes: a house in the shadow of two silos shaped like gramophone bells (leon)
From: [personal profile] agonistes
YAYAYAYAYAY!

:D :D :D :D :D :D

Date: 2005-03-18 03:33 am (UTC)
ext_27060: Sumer is icomen in; llude sing cucu! (Default)
From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
That guitar is so cheery in a black-and-white kind of way.

Thank you!

MAZEL TOV!!!

Date: 2005-03-18 12:58 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Yashir Koach!!!

Eliz.

Re: MAZEL TOV!!!

Date: 2005-03-18 03:34 am (UTC)
ext_27060: Sumer is icomen in; llude sing cucu! (Default)
From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
Todah rabah! Also, hi!

Date: 2005-03-18 01:16 am (UTC)
silveraspen: stack of old books with golden edges (books)
From: [personal profile] silveraspen
Oh, that's WONDERFUL news!!! Congratulations!

Date: 2005-03-18 03:34 am (UTC)
ext_27060: Sumer is icomen in; llude sing cucu! (Default)
From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
Thank you very much! I'm happy.

Date: 2005-03-18 02:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] obopolsk.livejournal.com
Congratulations! :D

Date: 2005-03-18 03:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] obopolsk.livejournal.com
I may be in England for the summer, too, doing medieval-ish things. But I won't know for a little while yet. (I think I'm at least going to Ireland for 3 weeks for a medieval dig.)

Agh, HTML

Date: 2005-03-18 06:57 am (UTC)
ext_27060: Sumer is icomen in; llude sing cucu! (Default)
From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
[Sorry about the repost.]

Maybe we can meet up at some point. I'll be in London, Oxford and Cambridge, I think.

It's not a full summer fellowship. I'm looking at the first few weeks in July. (The fact that my proposed scheduling happens to make it possible for me to acquire a shiny hardcover to read on the plane home is... coincidental. Really. You don't believe that?)

Re: Agh, HTML

Date: 2005-03-18 01:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] obopolsk.livejournal.com
Yes, I believe it. *shakes head*

If I get my 8-week fellowship, I'm planning to be in all of those places. Otherwise, I might just be in Ireland for the 3 weeks, hopefully with some time in London tacked on at the beginning or end.

Date: 2005-03-20 01:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elettaria.livejournal.com
Mazel tov! We have a lovely national library in Edinburgh, too.

So what part of the world are you in now, then?

Date: 2005-03-20 07:10 pm (UTC)
ext_27060: Sumer is icomen in; llude sing cucu! (Default)
From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
Northern California. The weather's lovely, even if the selection of manuscripts leaves something to be desired.

Date: 2005-03-20 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elettaria.livejournal.com
I have no idea how we fare in terms of manuscripts (I suspect fairly well, capital of Scotland and a university-dominated city and all that), but I honestly can't call the weather here lovely. I adore the place regardless.

You really do have a beautiful icon, and it looks rather nice contrasting with mine! What's it from? A medieval illustration? I presume it's a phoenix?

Date: 2005-03-20 09:28 pm (UTC)
ext_27060: Sumer is icomen in; llude sing cucu! (Default)
From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
Thank you!

It is indeed a phoenix, from the Aberdeen Bestiary here.

Date: 2005-03-19 04:45 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ashen_key
Now that? That is cool.

I'm madly jealous, but congratulations!

Date: 2005-03-20 07:10 pm (UTC)
ext_27060: Sumer is icomen in; llude sing cucu! (Default)
From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
Thank you! There are indeed advantages to the life of a scholar. :)

Date: 2005-03-20 07:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cryptoquip.livejournal.com
Yeee! Congratulations!

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