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Current mood:  excited
I think I just won at life. I won so hard.
...Holy crap I am so frackin awesome...
**giggles insanely**
Ok so here's the story
I was up on the 4th floor getting Dr White's signature to drop the Class of Doom. She was talking to Shew, so I was waiting in the hallway. As I was waiting, Dr Whaley (chair of department, teacher from previous semesters, Canadian haha) came out. I didn't expect her to remember me (experience has taught me that I tend to be unmemorable) and I also didn't think she'd liked me (but I always think that). She walked down the hall to make a copy or something and when she came back, made a little small talk (how are ya how's married life etc). Wow - she remembered me AND that I got married over the summer. Yay for me.
So I go in & get Dr White to sign off - That was "fun" haha -- On my way out to the elevator, I passed Dr Ellison's office and went in to bemoan the brief encounter with Dr White --- He's my advisor and I had him sign off yesterday and we'd talked about how I hoped she would not ask why I was dropping. She did. I said she prolly didn't want me to answer. She insisted she did. She is probably making an effigy of me now.
Anyway, I left Dr E and went to the elevator. As I waited for the infernal machine, Dr Whaley came & caught me. "Jamie, was it you that wrote the research paper last semester about the varying representations of Jesus in medieval literature?" "Yes that was me." "Well, I was introducing the Dream of the Rood to my Brit Lit class and they got quite interested in that basic idea, of how Jesus is represented differently in literature. And I was wondering if you'd like to publish that paper in the Beacon (etbu's literary journal)."
O M G
This is great.
The great thing about it is that Dr Whaley went on to tell me that she remembered that paper being pretty awesome, and one of the few ideas that have stuck with her -- in other words, my paper ROCKED.
I was ASKED to PUBLISH.
When I was working on this paper (you can confirm this with Jonathan, as I talked his ears off about it), I got quite inspired by it, and intended to do more research on it -- make it bigger and more, because I got seriously into it. (I haven't done that yet, by the way.) So that's even better -- Dr Whaley (a formidable academic herself) thought that my premise was memorable, original, and well developed even in the class-work version. SWEET.
I'm going to do a read over -- make sure that I said everything I meant to say, etc -- and send it to her... YAY
OMG OMG OMG
As Jonathan said when I told him -- "one step closer" -- to my long-standing dream of academic publication!!
(please leave feedbacks -- would you be interested in this topic??)
6:46 PM
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