Spring Break?
Let me tell you exactly how much of a "break" this was. First of all, I had a presentation to work on, two plays to read, a four page paper to write, and another five page paper to do. Oh, and a pharmacy exam that was more like a crash course in the Spanish Inquisition. I had to wake up at 4am to take that exam, because it was in Warwick, Rhode Island. Kayla and I were on the road before six. It was still dark out. We so could have fallen prey to that scary Rt 44 ghost, thanks to darn pharmacy. Boo.
Also, I was decimated until Thursday with all of this consumption business. So, finally on Thursday, I read those two tragedies. One was decent. The other was the most boring revenge tragedy I have ever read. Ever. They were The Spanish Tragedy and Gorboduc, respectively. Then, yesterday, I worked on that four page paper before I had to go to work. Basically, we have to take Joseph Campbell's stages of a hero's journey and apply them to an adventure in our own life. So, I made a mock journal, documenting my first trip to Santa Maria, and filled it with events and thoughts that clearly mirror Campbell's stages. Cuz I'm subtle like that. However, my prof emailed me back, saying she'd prefer it if I incorporated the stages more! So, now I have to do the BAD, AWFUL, TACKY writer thing, and say "OMG! Like, this is SO corresponding to one of those stages that I just happened to know about FOUR YEARS AGO." Yeah, that's about as subtle as a fart in church. Seriously.
My other paper is to be five pages on Penn Leary's Cryptographic Shakespeare, which I 100% DO NOT agree with. Basically, he is trying to prove that it was actually Francis Bacon who wrote Shakespeare, and not "some country bumpkin who was barely literate." Um, EXCUSE ME, Penn Leary, but I come from uber country bumpkins, so FUCK YOU. I like to think that I, for one, am not a moron. Also, he applies this fancy code breaking that he just made up, and then puts these supposed Shakespearean "codes" through a Caesar shift, and, viola! "BACON." Ok. If I was smarter, and I wanted to, I could probably force it to say "REN AND STIMPY" and really fuck with those people. But you know what? I must be one of those crazy people who believes that sometimes, genius just happens. Deal with it. I don't see anyone saying that Hayden or Bach or one of those other old farts wrote Beethoven's works, just because he sucked at math and could barely spell. He was still a genius, and so was Shakes. So there.
My presentation, was, thankfully, very easy to put together. I did a presentation on Gertrude Stein last spring, so I am just using that for my Picasso class, except I tweaked the old handout I made to have a Stein quote about Picasso, a little bit about their relationship, and then just the bio of hers that I already had. I even have a nifty handout with their portraits of each other that I made for last year. I am clearly a badass who was anticipating all of this!
So needless to say (but I will), I have been one very busy Bunbury! I am actually looking forward to going back to school, because then things will die down a little bit. Well, at least until finals start looming.