First of all, you will see the LibraryThing blog widget on the sidebar now. Blame languagehat for feeding my list-addiction, as well as my need to have my books in some semblance of order. Tagging! Awesome!

So, I have a class from seven o'clock until ten o'clock at night, plus an hour commute home, and that's just not cool. But I went to it tonight and it is HOLY HECK awesome. It's called Bad Girls In The Bible - Part One: Hebrew Bible, and it is taught from a comparative literature/jewish midrashim/feminist type perspective, and it is the first time it has ever been offered, and the prof is quirky and funny and has that Jewish accent that I've never actually heard in person, and they're using the Tanakh translation which I've always liked but haven't read since leaving the faith. So, I will get to delve into some feminism and religious studies and get mad about the Bible but maybe also find some redeeming qualities in the stories too. Perhaps it will balance out some of the rage that usually boils to the surface whenever I think about those stories and how they've affected me and people I know. It will be the bible minus evangelicalism -- heck, minus Christianity!

Today I realised that all the girls I used to sit with in Linguistics classes actually graduated last year. I have no in-class friends anymore! Mwah!