So, to take a point neaaarly at a time, King Lear at the Globe was awesome. Favourite characters/actors = Edmund, Goneril (sp?) and Lear's Fool - who probably has a name but I do't have a copy of the play on me to check. In terms of mutilation, the eye-ripping-out-scene was fairly gross. Mum and Jay were completely horrified. I couldn't help but ( Read more... )

I should really just get used the fact that I have no natural balance and act with according care. I was leaning down from my computer chair to get a piece of paper off the floor and, like so many previous times, totally lost my balance and flung myself painfully to the floor. This happens FAR too often. At least I no longer have the broken chair ( Read more... )

I have the very gravest doubts that I will actually get my history essay finished tonight and, since I have no great love of being hung, drawn and quartered, I shall quite possibly be avoiding school altogether. Although I'll have to be quite desperate because it will kill me to miss another Thursday ( Read more... )

Finally, FINALLY finished that fucking politics essay!!!! Thank God. Okay, now I'm free to think about My OU Greek assignment that *has* to be done by tomorrow, my three History essays and my Classics texts.

Well, it started off fairly crappishly. Major headache over work. Fire drill. Mr. Maynard asking if I wanted to retake a history module. Latin didn't even drastically improve my mood which was DISTINCTLY worrying. Even though the lesson had white boards! <3

Then Classics was fairly amusing, Politics was...  well, politics. Politics just is not fun ( Read more... )

Nadia (the awesome and magnificent) just got As in her Classics retakes! <3<3<3 The 7th and 8th of March are forever my Golden Two Days.

Greek Tragedy: 90/100
Greek Comedy: 90/100

Bringing my total Classics AS mark up to 274/300. GOD, I'm happy.

I'm going to wait to decide properly until RH's offer comes up on UCAS (in the next week, hopefully) but, unofficially...

Chaucer can fuck off! And pears Passage to India can fuck off too.

I feel this should be like a children's story... Nadia's Productive Day, Nadia and the Balloon, Nadia Goes to the Circus... etc. ANYWAY.

Today I have accomplished many things! Although school was almost totally pointless. I had fun with people, but had NO lessons! A dream come true, you all cry? Nah, not really, I spent most of the day being bored ( Read more... )

I've been in a really good mood all day, it's strange, but very satisfying. Actually sleeping has gotta help, it really has - I hate when I prove myself wrong >> Oh well, more fun this way round.

History was sparkly. ...no, really, it was! For some reason now unknown to me I got my glitter out and made Ana, Katie and Emma very very glitterly. As ( Read more... )

"The postulate that 'what actually happened' did so of necessity is a classical retrospective illusion of historical consciousness..." Thank you, François Foucault, for that gem of a quote. Mmmbig words.

I love politics for teaching the word hegemony; I swear it's come up about a thousand times since we learnt what it meant and I would just have ( Read more... )