Fingers Crossed

So...I am currently awaiting a decision from the School of English as to whether I can change my degree programme to Single Honours English Lang and Lit. For those who don't already know, I'm currently doing Joint Honours English and Linguistics and I am wanting to drop the Linguistics because A) it is too hard! I have come to realise that I do not enjoy language as much as I thought I would and B) it is not as interesting as I thought it would be and C) I have got loads of friends doing SH Lang and Lit and they are all making me very jealous with their Norton Anthologies under their arms!! I am the in-limbo girl, I don't want to work too hard on Linguistics if I am only going to be dropping it anyway and at the same time I don't want to be putting all my hopes on getting accepted so the only thing really to do is .....slow down.....deep breath!.... Chill.

Chill, though is harder than it seems. Supposing they don't accept me, what will I do then? I don't want to be stuck for the next three years with a degree programme that I am not enjoying! No! stop panicking now, I need to think positive about what will happen if I am accepted. Of course I am an asset to the School of English, I have many skills and attributes....um....I think so anyway. Obviously my love of literature is the number one reason for wanting to change and since I have started studying middle English it has come as not a huge surprise to me that I actually love the old stories and poems and find the Old English riddles frankly hilarious! For instance:

"A small miracle hangs near a man's thigh,
Full under folds. It is stiff, strong,
Bold, brassy and pierced in front.
When a young lord lifts his tunic
Over his knees, he wants to greet
With the hard head of this hanging creature
The hole it has long come to fill"
Broadview Anthology of British Literature v1 the Medieval Period


See? Ace isn't it? I can only imagine what you dirty minded so and sos are thinking is the answer to this riddle but I can assure you it is not as filthy as you might imagine. No, really the answer is a key. Hahaha those medieval monks really did know how to have a laugh at the peasantry didn't they?