That's All, Amen, Close The Door
Apr. 11th, 2007 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lenora_roseLast day of classes. Within the next two hours, I hand in my Marlowe essay (Done but for looking for overlong sentences, uses of first person singular outside of footnotes, and some formatting clean-up.)
Got two essays back to celebrate it:
History: My one classmate in both medieval history and 16th c. Lit was radiant at her 90%. Then she said "I hate you" (With a smile). My St. Francis essay garnered 93% and a request from the TA (Not from Bowler) to keep a copy, as he just finished a thesis on a related topic. (He also included a mention of something even Francis's biggest critic didn't mention as far as I recall that might have changed the whole direction of my essay - though thankfully I was focusing on the time within and immediately after Francis' lifetime, and it was a bit later.)
Drama: My essay on the Bacchae got an A (No percentage grade), and a note on being very good work -- so naturally I read his comments on the way and wanted to beat my head against the desk for messing up.
Of course, all is not really done: my Drama exam is on Saturday at ***9:00AM***. Lovely; at least Smith agrees it's a terrible time. It should be a reasonable exam -- also, while he forbids us to reuse plays we've already used in essays for his class, I *can* reuse my Marlowe studies!
History gives us another 9 days, in which I can cram, and cram, though somewhere in there, I ALSO have to write my open-book take-home exam for 16th century. He says 2 hours: I may set a timer for myself for an hour and ten (Ten minutes for prep-work: Most "two hour" exams are given three hour time slots, so i don't think this is cheating terribly) for each question and see if i can actually sketch out a viable short work in that time. (Since he absolutely demands it be typed and printed, I reserve the right to proofread for tyops the next day before I hand it in, however.)
I may, however, read something fast and short from my schlock pile in there, as a sort of cookie for all the work. I've added 6 mysteries (3 new, 3 rereads) from mom's collection to the to-read pile.
I am currently hoping that the temp agency doesn't find me a second job until the end of April, but that they do immediately after the exam period.
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Songs which have caused me most to hit the repeat button this month:
Mark Knopfler: Cannibals (Because I've been walking to work to it, and that's a brisk beat.)
Richard Thompson: Crazy Man Michael (Not like I haven't got two Fairport versions of this and haven't heard Dave Clement do a splendid rendition as well. And it's not like I didn't know I loved the song. But Richard's own, as found on the massive RT box set, is like worth the whole cost of the box set alone. It's THAT good.)
Richard and Linda Thompson: The End of the Rainbow (This seems to be the theme song of the Marlowe essay. I didn't think essays had soundtracks, but, come to think of it, I was listenign to a lot of Nordic stuff featuring feral-sounding women in group harmony while writing on the Bacchae...)
Oh Susanna: Johnstown (Another one for the Marlowe essay), Alabaster, Old Kate (Just 'cause.)
Pink Floyd: Lost for Words (Also Marlowe).
Heather Alexander: Wooden Toy Sword (In spite of being another ghost story with bonus soldiery, thus part of the ongoing soundtrack for the current novel, this song is mainly and inextricably linked to doing archery in my mind.)
Got two essays back to celebrate it:
History: My one classmate in both medieval history and 16th c. Lit was radiant at her 90%. Then she said "I hate you" (With a smile). My St. Francis essay garnered 93% and a request from the TA (Not from Bowler) to keep a copy, as he just finished a thesis on a related topic. (He also included a mention of something even Francis's biggest critic didn't mention as far as I recall that might have changed the whole direction of my essay - though thankfully I was focusing on the time within and immediately after Francis' lifetime, and it was a bit later.)
Drama: My essay on the Bacchae got an A (No percentage grade), and a note on being very good work -- so naturally I read his comments on the way and wanted to beat my head against the desk for messing up.
Of course, all is not really done: my Drama exam is on Saturday at ***9:00AM***. Lovely; at least Smith agrees it's a terrible time. It should be a reasonable exam -- also, while he forbids us to reuse plays we've already used in essays for his class, I *can* reuse my Marlowe studies!
History gives us another 9 days, in which I can cram, and cram, though somewhere in there, I ALSO have to write my open-book take-home exam for 16th century. He says 2 hours: I may set a timer for myself for an hour and ten (Ten minutes for prep-work: Most "two hour" exams are given three hour time slots, so i don't think this is cheating terribly) for each question and see if i can actually sketch out a viable short work in that time. (Since he absolutely demands it be typed and printed, I reserve the right to proofread for tyops the next day before I hand it in, however.)
I may, however, read something fast and short from my schlock pile in there, as a sort of cookie for all the work. I've added 6 mysteries (3 new, 3 rereads) from mom's collection to the to-read pile.
I am currently hoping that the temp agency doesn't find me a second job until the end of April, but that they do immediately after the exam period.
______________________________
Songs which have caused me most to hit the repeat button this month:
Mark Knopfler: Cannibals (Because I've been walking to work to it, and that's a brisk beat.)
Richard Thompson: Crazy Man Michael (Not like I haven't got two Fairport versions of this and haven't heard Dave Clement do a splendid rendition as well. And it's not like I didn't know I loved the song. But Richard's own, as found on the massive RT box set, is like worth the whole cost of the box set alone. It's THAT good.)
Richard and Linda Thompson: The End of the Rainbow (This seems to be the theme song of the Marlowe essay. I didn't think essays had soundtracks, but, come to think of it, I was listenign to a lot of Nordic stuff featuring feral-sounding women in group harmony while writing on the Bacchae...)
Oh Susanna: Johnstown (Another one for the Marlowe essay), Alabaster, Old Kate (Just 'cause.)
Pink Floyd: Lost for Words (Also Marlowe).
Heather Alexander: Wooden Toy Sword (In spite of being another ghost story with bonus soldiery, thus part of the ongoing soundtrack for the current novel, this song is mainly and inextricably linked to doing archery in my mind.)
