Further proof that I ought not to be left in charge of my own life....

So the up side is that my paper went over relatively well.

Here are the down sides:

1) There are very few grad students here at all (I've only seen one or two others) and we're not looking all that good in comparison with all those highly experienced awesome full professors....

2) who are all from France for some strange reason and, thusly, are extra awesome.

3) I only got one question, it was mad obvious, and yet I had never looked into it before. [The paper was on Meiji translations of Shakespeare in performance and someone asked if Kurosawa would have been aware of the tradition. AND I DIDN'T KNOW. *thuds head on desk*]

4) Thankfully, I waited till I was outside to do the following: put my water bottle back into my bag upside down without a lid (which I didn't notice until I dripped on some random girl in a coffee shop), lost a shoe when the heel got stuck in a crack in the sidewalk, and--because I have no sense of self-preservation--talked to myself about how embarrassing all of those things were.

In other news, I have to think up a way to deal with a student who wrote a paper with this thesis statement: "Although Jeff is in this position of dependence upon women, he maintains authority, and his ability to do this when so vulnerable makes him more masculine."

If anyone has any suggestions (because my instinct is to fail the kid immediately for dickishness), I'd love to hear them.