2011 is already off to an ... interesting... start

[neadods]

Last night on the Holmes newsletter, I saw a notice for a class using Sherlock Holmes (original) as an illustration/introduction to Victorian society as a whole.

Cool!

It's at a college near me.

COOL!

It's about to start, but it's not too late to sneak in at the last second if it's not full.

COOL!

....aaaaaaand then I started looking up little details like where and when and discovered that it runs for four hours a night every single work night for two weeks solid.

Not so cool.

Also in the article was a notice that someone in the town that my parents have just moved away from has turned his basement into 221B Baker St. and it's apparently brilliantly done.

*sigh*

These italics brought to you by a certain amount of frustration. I think the Red Circle's no longer around, but maybe I need to start looking into local Holmes groups. Or maybe I need to find an unabridged audio and catch up with canon while painting the house.

Comments

[beledibabe.livejournal.com]

The Red Circle's still going, apparently. (Per a friend who was at a meeting this fall.) The Watson's Tin Box folks in Columbia seem very friendly. I'd like to get to a meeting when the weather's more mild.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Watson's Tin Box? Okay, I'm in love with it just from the name. I'll have to check them out. If nothing else, Columbia is a lot more commute-friendly than downtown DC.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

I blame my fifth grade love for Sherlock Holmes for the fact that I am a Victorianist today, and I still do think back to the stories as cultural reference points fairly often, so that sounds pretty great to me.

I know some colleges run intersession classes like that but . . . difficult enough to take a class like that, but I honestly cannot imagine having the stamina to *teach* on that schedule, even for just two weeks.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I can't help but think it's some sort of a mistake, but by the time it's straightened out, the class will be half over.

Also, it would conflict with a couple of knitting classes I want. :/

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Bah humbug to the inconvenience!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Seriously!

[jennetj.livejournal.com]

http://librivox.org/the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes/

[neadods.livejournal.com]

*Squee* Thank you! (I'm also to the point where I'm seriously contemplating printing my own Holmes version so it will be portable and write-on-able...)

[raqs.livejournal.com]

It's a standard winter session thing; it's that many hours a night because it is probably a full 3 credits ( getting the kids closer to graduating!) what does it cost? Because it might be super fun and you might hate to miss out on it. It's only two weeks, and the teacher will be as aware of the marathon-ness of the schedule as you and probably give time to stitch or something. And if you get too bored or tired you can always leave - you don't need the credits, do you?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I don't need credits -- it looks like a non-credit course anyway, possibly being wedged in before the campus kicks back in properly after the winter break.

On the other hand, I also found out today that the Holmes class would conflict with a knitting class I want to take... and in the long run, I'm probably going to get more use out of knowing a new craft.

I'll just go to one of the local Holmesian groups later and suck up to anyone who went to the class. :)

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

The Red Circle is at http://www.redcircledc.org/

I haven't been to a meeting in ages, but the membership tends to be older and probably not as squee on "Sherlock" as you. Next dinner meeting is in March. If you want to go whole hog, their website has a calendar with links to the annual SH Weekend in NYC on Jan 5-9.... Blau would know about other local groups, quite possibly some more fannish than the RC.

One young Baltimore lady some years back said that she liked meeting Sherlockians, but they would invite her to their meetings, and then other people there would invite her to THEIR meetings, until eventually she found herself in Connecticut thinking that she ought to take up some less expensive hobby, such as cocaine addiction.

She was the one who stood in the Algonquin lobby during one SH Weekend with her coat open over a sweatshirt that said, "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" She said that she'd have to button up the coat or take it off, because all anyone could see were the words "they were... gigantic", and people kept asking what had happened to them.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

You've told me that sweatshirt story before. :)

I'm not expecting Sherlock squee at a canon Holmes group, but Sherlock is backwashing into my original fondness for Holmes. Upthread there's a mention of a Columbia group - I'll check them out (in my copious free time, *cough*) and try to remember Red Circle in March. I enjoyed the Red Circle.

[fourzoas.livejournal.com]

I recently downloaded an unabridged audio from audible, but haven't listened yet--it's waiting for our return home and The Great Office/Craft Room Cleaning of 2010.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

You're running out of 2010 to do that in!