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

[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. :)