I am so jealous. One of my friends down here is doing her History Honours, and she's picking through interesting topics and books, such as "fashioning sapphism: the origins or modern english lesbian culture" and "Rum, sodomy, and the lash: piracy, sexuality, and masculine identity". Not to mention a sideline into internet culture, fandom and the history of fanfiction.

Why didn't anyone tell me, when I was a lowly and impressionable undergrad, that history included the ability to study things like that, but in Pol Sci I'd be stuck with uber-abstract dialectic discourses of post-modernity and other dry, boring crap.

Sigh.

At least I got to show off my knowledge today in class, revealing the reason why officers in armies have highly ritualistic weapons as part of their dress uniform. (No, it's not actually a phallic thing, though that's a good guess.)

I still feel grumpy and inadequate.