Pleasantness: Class reading, a student's accent.

I'm trying to be positive again, now that the "overwork and no $" of teaching is upon me for the year and won't let up till June.

One of the positive points:

First term I get to read a number of interesting books, including bits from Ovid's Metamorphoses (in translation).

Another positive point:

One of the students in the class is from Maryland and has a strong, strong accent.  When she said where she was from, honest to G-d it sounded like "Murriland", just like John Travolta talked in the Divine role for the Hairspray musical movie.

I'm interested to find out her story.