Entries tagged with "the professor"

Votre dévouée élève, qui vous aime de tout son coeur

posted by srah on July 24, 2003 12:07 AM

Tags: assistantship, books, french, grenoble, quote, reviews, teaching, the professor, vichy

While reading The Professor (thanks for suggesting it, Katie), I was full of fantasies about updating it (à la Pride & Prejudice/Bridget Jones), writing a novel loosely based on it, or bringing it to the big screen. The book is about an Englishman who is unhappy in his work, so he goes off to Belgium and teaches English. I like it despite the protagonist's airs of grandeur, because there are parts that remind me of my experiences as a teaching assistant in France. No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession,...

Meesa meejahoor

posted by srah on July 22, 2003 7:03 PM

Tags: a mighty wind, books, harry potter, harry potter and the goblet of fire, movies, mr darcy's daughters, quote, the professor, time travel, writing

I am what Meg calls a meejahoor. Recently I have been constantly trying to read four or five books at the same time and watching movies when I come up for a breath of non-literary air. I think this is because I was deprived of English-language books and movies (or at least of selection) in France and I'm now so inundated with them that I gave myself and get in over my head. Read/viewed within the past week: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - it's a reread, but an interesting one, what with all I've learned in book...