Mine Eyes Ache with Pleasurable Pain - Teaching Shakespeare (Days 12 & 13)

Today we completed reading Midsummer in two classes. We've yet to perform Act V in class but that will come tomorrow. I've been rifling through stacks of papers like a speed reader on Red Bull, and it's killing my eyes. I feel like Richard Henry Dana, who left Harvard to sail to California because his eyes were going bad.

Can you imagine?

"Okay, Doc. I'll take a break from reading so much. Cape Horn, here I come!"

Luckily for Dana, he was an educated man and able to write about his sailing experiences, which were published in Two Years Before the Mast.  He didn't take a yacht.  It was more like Master and Commander meets Pirates of the Caribbean. Okay, not quite, but you get the point.

Two days and counting until Winter Break, which equals two weeks of reading and writing and more eye strain. I'll be blind before my next birthday, and then it's on to learning Braille.