Courtauld and Chaucer

Yesterday morning I met Proffesor Cook at the Courtauld Gallery early so we could discuss my paper. It was decided that I would focus on "The Court of Love", which has several pages of notes and sketches in the notebook. We then were given a long tour of the gallery. There were some cool pieces, but the one that stunned me the most was that Van Gogh's Self Portrait with Mutilated Ear was ACTUALLY THERE. It was so wierd to see it in person after having seen so many reproductions of it. After class, I met briefly with Pericles about my paper for his class.
On my way back home and to the British Library, I wandered into a shop with a TON of Dr. Who memorabilia. It was brilliant. I spent some quality time with the notebook at the British Library, and then spent some time trying to figure out where the heck the Court of Love came from. I was estatic when I figured out it was from Chaucer, and even more excited when I found a copy of the Riverside Chaucer (a definitive edition, it was only 20 pounds, so I bought it, but only paid 18 cause it was a little beat up) and in it found that this court of love was from Parliament of Foules. This is the poem I had thought of doing my Senior Essay on, but gave up that idea long ago. Anyways, I was so so excited. but I was also starving, so I wandered to this pizza place I'd been wanting to try. It was WAY better than Pizza Express and also way better.
Even though I had a lot of work when I got back to HPH, I was incredibly content.