Had a meeting with my Calligraphy teacher today to discuss the paper topic. I expressed undecided-ness, and (as the paper is on calligraphy's effect on some other cultural aspect, like related to the student's major interest) that my major was Chinese. She started going on about history of Calligraphy and its wonderful tradition, blah, blah. Then she started bulldozing towards modern calligraphers and I'm thinking, "Oh /heylllll/ no." So yeah. Thus began my slightly rude interrupting about Old Sinitic relations to Persian, or Tang civil service exams, pretty much anything to put her back on the track of ancient Chinese.

Apparently she's working on a thing for Tang calligraphy, and now I'm expected to write on it because she'll be so happy to be able to judge that I researched it properly. *headdesk*

At least it ties in with my SCA period?

And soooooo probably not going to do the broad overview throughout history if she actually wants any sort of depth, because that would mean 20 page paper, at least. gah.

Having discovered the scanners in the library, on a slightly related note, I'm making copies of the research books I end up lugging around and getting late fees on. I figure that I might be able to get some done before my calligraphy today, if I don't get lazy. Actually... I'm going to post what I have so far on photobucket. Or does anyone recommend flickr or an alternative host?