Up late again. Finishing off Love’s Last Shift (sounds like a romance novel, but it’s a play for school). I had my weeks until the end of the school planned out assignment-wise, but Dawn reminded me about the scene analysis thing I still need to do. Shoot. So I need to read the play and do the analysis tomorrow. I finished researching for De Niro’s Game, too. Or, at least, I found a few articles that might work. Quite honestly, I don’t know what to do. That class scares me. I’m not smart enough and I don’t care enough about diaspora/identity/other/theory/agency/gender lit. I don’t have any fancy books or hard-to-understand articles for it.
Found Emma Shapplin’s new CD. I like her older, operatic stuff better. She reminds me a lot of Sarah Brightman (people are always comparing artists to Sarah Brightman, but Emma sounds just like her, if not prettier). Anyway, like Sarah Brightman, she has a strong soprano/popera voice and a soft, feeble pop voice. What is up with dat, yo. That is as far as my music lingo goes.
I am so tired of school it’s making me angry.
This could be your fairytale
Posted by Sarks on March 15, 2010 • General
This evening was very relaxing. I don’t know why. I don’t feel the sense of dread I usually do.
I spent the afternoon going through a book for “evidence.” I am nearly done, but I still have no idea what to write yet! At 6 I decided to take a nap, which lasted half an hour. After that I went upstairs to read more Rose Turquand (that book is deceptively long! Every page is two-columned and the size of regular paper). I would love to buy a proper book, but I don’t think that’s impossible. If it was, I can see it being very expensive.
I couldn’t help it. I bought The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley in hardcover. If I could justify this by showing you how tattered my 10-cent copy is, I would! It only cost me $8.85 and has a proper Greek priestess on the front, not a woman in Medieval clothing. It has been one of my favorite books since I was 12.
Daylight savings has thrown me off. I can’t believe it’s already 11:18. I guess I need to finish DNG so I can feel more accomplished today. I feel like I haven’t done very much and the anxious feeling is coming back.
Your masquerade
Posted by Sarks on March 13, 2010 • General
Hallo. Today was good. Not only did I get to chill with Dawn and Tyler and co., I finished my Trial of Charles I short essay (even made the title page and finished the bibliography!) while waiting at Dawn’s house, fixed up my write-up for The Unfortunate Traveller presentation, and posted three wikis for Stuart England (manuals of manners, wetnurses, and mistresses of Charles II). I am quite proud of myself. I even read a little of Rose Turquand. Still behind, though. I’m just glad to not feel so behind in History for once. I want to write one more wiki this weekend now that I’m in the mood to do research (and I’ve discovered the Oxford Biography Database and the hende-ness of Google Books).
I also don’t work this weekend, which is nice (but not nice money-wise). I have two days to try and finish my Victorian Novel readings and work on more wikis. We’re supposed to do one per week, but I haven’t posted one since, well, I don’t remember. So, technically, I’ve done three weeks’ worth? I’m genuinely excited to start researching for a couple of my big essays. I’m more worried about the precis than anything else.
I also need to do a proper room cleaning. I know I keep tweeting and whining about it, but I need to dust/vacuum/organize the piles of books that have found homes in corners.
The weather was perfect today! It felt sleepy… rainy, gloomy, sad, comfy, melancholy, and so on. I enjoyed sitting on Dawn’s couch and typing while it was so foggy and miserable outside.
Ah, “Little Bird” still reminds me of being in the car and driving through San Diego as the sun was going down. I love it when songs carry memories.
I have a Tumblr account. Nothing much there but random things I love, including favorite movie clips, favorite songs, favorite quotes and lyrics, pictures, and so on. I hope some people find it interesting. If not, then oh well. I think I will at least enjoy going back and playing videos ;_;. I won’t have to clutter by blog and Twitter with random things (yes, I know, I do feel a little overwhelmed by the internet, but at least I’ve kept the same username).
[1:44 am]
Sometimes I wish I live in a quieter world. There is something nice about my obnoxious ticking clock and the creaking of my heater. I like it when everyone is asleep and I’m not. There is something free in that.
Don’t try to fix me I’m not broken…. HELLO
Posted by Sarks on March 11, 2010 • General
I really wish I didn’t feel so tired. I had 7-8 hours of sleep last night, but I am too tired to get properly working on writing assignments. Is this exhaustion? I don’t know. I don’t even feel like updating my sites or simply reading. I just want to crawl into bed and disappear >_< This is so frustrating.
Tudors!
Posted by Sarks on March 10, 2010 • General, Television
The first two episodes of the new season of The Tudors have appeared online and I, being the good student that I am, watched them. I don’t have the time now to do a proper review, so here are my thoughts:
-Charles Brandon/Duke of Suffolk is so sad. The first picture is his only happy moment. What a change from season 1.
-Catherine Howard giggles so much it’s hilarious.
-I’m afraid the actress of Elizabeth isn’t very good. I hope she improves.
-The scene with Mary and Chapuys made me ;_; (second last picture) It’s even sadder to me because Mary I wanted so badly to marry and have children and, although she married, her husband was always away and she never had children.
-Joss Stone is baaaack as Anne of Cleves (fourth picture)!
-Henry is the only character who’s “aged” believably. They’ve tried to age Henry Cavill, but Charles still looks young, even with the beard.
-Puppies!
-Thomas Culpepper is a jerk. I thought he would just be a pretty boy who’d get to romance Catherine, but he’s evil.
What else? I am listening to the audiobook of The Picture of Dorian Gray. So far it’s a confusion of morals and art. I need to read more Rose Turquand tonight.
Thymaster
Posted by Sarks on March 09, 2010 • General
My sister showing me how to use her thymaster thighmaster and not knowing I was recording. Yeah. I’m immature.
Essays
Posted by Sarks on March 08, 2010 • School
I want to write these down here while I am in the mood for thinking about it. Dawn reminded me to get ordering books so I don’t leave it too late. I also went to the library and found a bunch. I feel very scholarly now that I will have a giant row of library books on my floor- I still have books out from before. Oh my. Which reminds me… my room needs its weekly cleaning. I also need to stop being so tired so I can do it… Anyways, essays…
Stuart England: Women and witchcraft and how it relates to the Civil War or Puritanism or Protestantism in general. I have no idea what the main argument will be. Does the rise of more radical Protestantism have anything to do with witchcraft trials’ being the way they were in the sixteenth century? NO IDEA.
Victorian Novel: The “fallen woman” in Victorian literature. I forget what books those are. I ordered a few books via DocDel. Whew.
Restoration Comedy: NO IDEA.
Canadian Lit: Women in DeNiro’s Game. No idea what else.
Renaissance: Pandosto. All’s I know is that I read it. What am I going to write about it? NO IDEA.
I still need to look up my precis assignment topic. Whoops. If I don’t get the rest of my little assignments done this week I’m in trouble!
I’m lurking in the hallway in front of Reeves’ classroom. I hope my group shows up early like they said. I don’t really know if they had a set place or if we were going to meet early. I said here when we were talking about it. Ah, well. I’m scared to read this thing in front of class. I say read because I can’t present.
Was… was that a dog? ANYWAYS. I’m so sorry for being so boring. Well, I mean… Sorry, Dawn, for being so dull.
[6:30 pm]
I got When the Elephants Dance in the mail! It was $8… so I was surprised that a hardcover in relatively good condition showed up. The cover is pretty. Anyway, I was thinking about that book since reading Japanese/Chinese-Canadian literature in Canadian Lit. Whenever Asian lit is studied, it seems to always be either Japanese or Chinese (and I really wanted to read something I could relate to a tiny bit). I remembered WtED because it takes place in the Philippines. I accidentally picked it up at Boucherie once and never got to read it all.
I have a cat sitting job this week. I have a love-hate relationship with that annoying siamese cat. He’s adorable because of how irritating he is.
You are the moon that breaks the night
Posted by Sarks on March 08, 2010 • School
I know it’s late, but I feel like posting my poast of end-of-assignment triumph. I am done my seminar work. All’s I gotta do now is read it in front of the class. I don’t really want to do that. Firstly, I think I wrote too much on travel literature (sixteenth-century England) and too little on tragedy. But I had to divide my four minutes of talking between those two topics and had little to say for tragedy. I think I did it wrong, too. Now I have to check…
Checked. I have no idea what she means by “detailed presentation notes, point form preferred.” I have my write-up of what I am going to read. Does that count? It isn’t point form. Ugh, I don’t know! I am going crazy. I can’t present if I can’t read what I’ve written.
Currently obsessed with “Howl” by Florence + The Machine. I downloaded the CD tonight to listen to while writing.
I think awards shows bring out the worst in some people. Simmer down, people. No need to trash every dress you hate and every actor you dislike. Jeez.
Dear Diary
Posted by Sarks on March 07, 2010 • General
Today I was super exhausted. I had a full night’s sleep and yet I woke up feeling like crap. Good story.
I tried to read Rose Turquand. I read only the beginning and I like it so far. I gave up on finishing Hard Times (if I’m not done now then what’s the point?). I put off my seminar points and will work on it before and after work tomorrow. My group person said she could compile the presentation Monday morning, so I will get it done Sunday night.
Dawn and I went on a rather satisfying Timmy’s run.
Yay Tyler’s at work tomorrow. That’s the only good thing about working tomorrow. Even though I haven’t worked in two weeks >_<
I capped Spartacus 1.5. I hadn’t finished the episode so I downloaded an HD version. The show’s gotten better, I guess. Not good, but better. I’m pretty sure I’ll watch any historical show that’s on these days even if it sucks. I dislike it when shows have characters that are only there for shock value. Like, give characters a story, will ya?
I finished capping while watching Gladiator as well. It was gladiator overload. The end of Gladiator has got to be one of my favorites.
I’m also going to try and write stuff down for my story tonight. I have three characters and I love their names. I just… don’t have the time to write these days. I haven’t since first year =(.
Night.
Updates
Posted by Sarks on March 06, 2010 • General, School
-I spent the last two days working on my annotation assignment and freaking out over my group project. My group changed proposals (and forwarded me e-mails in the morning so I had no idea “tomorrow” meant that day and missed another meeting). The bad thing was that I worked at reading for the first proposal when I could have spent that time on the Restoration thing. The good thing is that I got more reading out of the way and can use Pandosto, which I liked, for my essay. I don’t think I did my annotation assignment right. Eggleston is grading the introduction and annotations equally even though the latter took hours longer to finish.
-I was relieved to be finished the assignment and could barely bring myself to do even more reading on the bus this morning. It wasn’t that long, but I was tired and grumpy. When I got to school, I seriously nearly gagged trying to sign in at the Collegium. B.O. man at the desk had strange cheese in his lunch. It was so gross. I did not want to breathe.
-The Room is delightfully awful. It was nice not forcing myself to do anything important tonight.
-I no longer want to be in school. I want to quit. Like right now.
-Ancient Greece project with Henry Cavill a little closer to being made. OH HENRY. Filming begins April 7.
-Thank you, Dagung, for ENDORPHINS.
-Happy Sabbath, me. I’m glad for one day to catch up- sleep, read, and so on.
-A thought this week about certain posters at school: Why can’t we promote the stopping of violence against all people?