you know you're in grad school when...
...you have a dream about generals.
I can't believe it! Last night I had very vivid dream about my doctoral exams, wh. I'll probably take in about a year. I haven't been thinking about them too much, obviously, because there's plenty occupying my mind, and they're not for a year or so. But I had this dream. I could picture the exact faces of people on my committee (and then some unidentifiable EveryScholars). They were all sitting around three sides of a wood table, and I was sitting in front of them at a smaller wood table. They asked me questions for a while, about what I can't remember. And then I had a certain amount of time in which to write an essay on everything I could think of about the tradition of Orpheus in music. So I began writing (this is all still in my dream!). I talked about his importance in Greek mythology, how the first operas were settings of Orfeo, Gluck's setting of Orfeo, and some other things which I can't remember now. What a nerd!! I can't believe I dreamed all this!!! Not to mention the fact, that I was writing on paragraph per piece of paper, so at one point in the dream I was wandering around looking for a computer to type it all out on!! I need a vacation.