I realize that I frequently confess all kinds of uber-dorky things about myself, but it can’t be helped. Some things are just so cool that people ought to know about them. For example, this course that I’m planning to audit:

War in the Middle Ages

Description: In modern popular culture, the Middle Ages are often imaginatively synonymous with war: knights in shining armor, Vikings in their longships, Robin Hood with his longbow and “merry men.” This lecture-discussion course seeks to complicate this image by examining warfare as a central fact of European civilized life. Problems to be addressed include the technology and economics of warfare, the sociology of warfare, major phases in the development of European warfare from the Carolingians through the Hundred Years’ War, and the literary, religious, and psychological significance of war for the development of European civilization.

See? It sounds cool, right? Too bad it has nothing to do with my field, but it should be good for a little, um, perspective. Yeah, that’s it…