Primrose Road

Earlier this week, I passed the final qualifying exam and achieved candidacy (woohoo, now I get to write a dissertation?), but I can't hibernate yet: I have to wake up in approximately four-and-a-half hours and leave my apartment by 5:30AM in order to get on a train to Washington DC, where I'll be attending a weekend seminar for the rest of the term. So right now, students eat my weekdays and Shakespeare eats my weekends. Hibernation will have to take place in late May and early June. Then in the fall, apparently, I'm supposed to try to go on the job market or something. Hmm.

While I'm experiencing the joys of Amtrak, please rejoice in the following search terms that brought people to Primrose Road this month:

1. "providence devinity Hamlet"

~ Dear undergrads: try JSTOR instead of Google.

2. "Ophelia and Hamlet romance fanfiction"

~ cf. Kenneth Branagh's 1996 film.

3. "Shakespeare in Love fanfiction"

~ "Shakespeare in Love" is fanfiction. Hilarious fanfiction. Poor Marlowe. ::sniffle::

4. "mscae spiritual"

~ Obviously either a New Age agricultural engineer or a Lindsey Buckingham fan.

5. "what is a primrose"

~ And you thought clicking on a link to this blog would answer your question why?