It is four minutes to midnight, and I have just finished the first draft of my Angela Carter coursework essay, which I started earlier this evening. It's three hundred words too long, and needs a propper conclusion, and I need to fix the title, and the structure - having a whole paragraph in brackets in which I talk about the first word of Beowulf ( Read more... )

...is being one of the last two people still sitting in the cinema as the credits roll and grinning at all the funny names and titles and at the person next to you.

( Fairly long and somewhat personal, so it gets a cut... )