So maybe it helps to be an extrovert

Recent progress in terms of social proof:
I found an article online by BYU professor Bruce Young about teaching the unrealities within The Winter's Tale. I sent him an e-mail with some specific questions about my research paper, and this morning he sent me back a beautifully helpful e-mail. He answered my questions directly, and also kind of just went on a rant about time in The Winter's Tale. I think the rant was just because he felt like it, but almost all of it fit in with other already-written paragraphs within my paper, which is fantastic because now I can go through and add a quote or two from him to beef up my paper. He also sent me some links to resources he thought would be helpful which I'm planning to read through once I finish this post :)

I've been thinking recently about how time can be a liberation to audience members watching The Winter's Tale. The irregular use of time definitely adds an element of mysticism to the play, and I believe that that element of mysticism makes it easier as an audience member to be enveloped by the foreign world on the stage and forget about our individualized everyday realities. I sent an e-mail to my theater history professor asking some questions about theater and escapism and hopefully he'll get back to me soon!

Dan: Oh Dan. He works on the fifth floor in the library, and honestly he's been my sounding board through this entire process and he still is (if you're having issues organizing your thoughts I suggest going to see if you can find a guy wearing a nametag that says "dan" at the help desk on the fifth floor. He's the best). Recently though he's been working on some research papers too so its been fun to be able to return the favor and be a sounding board for him as well. In terms of helping people within class, I've mostly just been trying to read other's posts on the blog, and I have a tendency to stumble upon information pertinent to her when I'm doing my research, so when that happens I try to pass it along to her.