Medievalists
It's good to be hanging out with my people again. Tonight I was at a party where there had to be about thirty medievalists present. I have so missed this.

Five graduate students have a house together near Bloor and Dufferin. It's a really spiffy place with three levels, glossy hardwood floors and new-looking appliances. Their communal reference shelf even has two copies of Niermeyer (now that's really luxurious!)

You know you're partying with medieval studies students when snippets of conversation sound like this:
"We ought to pact to get together and watch Firefly episodes once a week."
"To pact? Is pact a verb now?"
"Sure it is. Pango, pangere, panxi, pactum. English verbs come from the fourth principal part, right?"

Ah yes. And attached to the fridge was the following ditty.

Theoden sings....

I am the very model of a mediaeval Anglian
The truth of this suffuses every nerve and every ganglion
While some proclaim my folc to be Germanic (miscellaneous)
I am in in fact bewildered by this theory extra-aneous

See the rest here.