Aslaug's Axe Shed

…has left a trail of destruction across Louisianna, I and Hurrican Hannah is moving inwards, I feel like someone just dropped a tropical storm in my living room right here in peaceful little Denmark.
I was going to write a long rant about the government screwing over people on unemployment benefits yet again, but that rant…while it may still be coming…is hereby postponed for a brief spell.

You see, just as I was feeling REALLY pony (pun intended), and I was starting to get all gloomy again, good fortune decided to come up to my front door, knock on it, grab me by the scruff of my top and kiss me soundly and without warning when I opened…

I’ve got lectures…

Not as in I’ll be TAKING lectures. No, I’ll be GIVING lectures. Just two of them, mind you, but they are at the University of ??rhus, the second largest university in Denmark after Copenhagen. And it will be at the department of Theology, of all places, teaching religious history.

This is literally a life’s dream coming true for me. I don’t have all the material I need yet, but I will be getting that soon.

To be exact, I will be one of two lecturers, with me as the proverbial special guest star…and the first lecture will be on the socalled Confessional period, which ran from 1555 to 1648. The funny thing is this means I’ll be talking about some of the very same things that Jean spoke of in Transitions…when defending her PhD. Imagine that.

I’ll be an actual history lecturer, if only for two lectures at first. But to use Tigermark’s expression, it’s ‘a huge hoof in the door’ and I’m EXTREMELY happy with it! Right now, I’m unable to stop smiling and I feel better than I have for ages.

When real life hits me again, I’ll probably still write the rant about Danish politics that I had planned…but right now, this is a lot more important to me.

*Dances into the kitchen to get dinner*