April 25, 2007

Only two weeks until the end of the semester. I have been lining up the summer writing projects (both poetic & scholarly), and my studio desk is awash in xeroxes and interlibrary loan books. I even pulled out my Chinese grammar book today and started to do characters--ugh, let's just the say the hiatus from practicing hasn't made my hanzi any more beautiful. I may even pull out my Wheelock and Lambdin (Latin & Hebrew respectively) over the weekend and start getting refreshed on conjugations and declensions. Maybe this will be the summer that I try to rescue the languages from the chasms of my memory that I worked so hard at in graduate school then shelved once I started working. Maybe.