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I hand in my media coursework on Monday and then it's a mad scramble to revise for my exam on the 3rd of June. Modernism I'm not worried about, considering I've read Araby, one of the key texts, something like 8 times now and there's even a really, really obscure reference to it in Ressey's app. The rest...eeh. I've decided to do the turn of the century and the industrial revolution too - had a Q&A session with a prof last night which helped assail my fears a little, but I still want to study the fuck up.
Also had a Q&A with a different prof - my tutor, Aris - about my media coursework on Tuesday. That was interesting - mostly we were talking about Come Dine With Me and how the narrator basically enters into conversation with the contestants and the audience - saying 'this contestant is stupid because' and 'you should not behave like this person because'. Sooo that is what I am doing my discourse analysis on.
I also got my content analysis back. Basically assembled the whole thing in 48 hours, got 73% and the professor for that class - who's ignored me and my 'so uh basically I am under a lot of stress could I get an extension' emails all semester greeted me with a smile when she saw me in the corridor. I didn't know what to say so I just sort of...sidled off.
I'm still looking for that perfect Come Dine With Me ep to analyse. I thought I'd go for one set in the north because the narrator is southern and tends to mock the accents of northerners or makes snide comments about the slang used, but the closest is Birmingham. And the Birmingham ep had a person in it who was pretty disgusting (taking their half-chewed food out of their mouth, comparing their meal to dog food/excrement) that I...couldn't watch it in detail. So I figured that I'd just write up my proposal then give myself a break for the rest of today. I got movies out - The Big Sleep (a story about a giant narcoleptic) Fargo (a documentary on Minnesota) and The 400 Blows (Rocky XX) so I figure I'll have a movie night, then go back to slaving away over a hot word document.
I was thinking about RP as I got back (mostly because I have a few tags I need to return qq) from buying some wine and idk I find it interesting that my character execution in GH is completely different from what I had expected. I've played characters like Mack/Miach/Tristan (4 years), Rhea and Nathan (3 years) for...a long time and I sort of expected to find myself slipping into their voices at some point. In fact, I completely accepted it - which is why I apped Cataline first, since she's such a different/challenging character type for me.
Instead - well, I'm definitely repeating character types, but ones I never expected to repeat on. Dee is definitely a Matty type and I haven't played Matty regularly/well since Countshire. Ressey is Helga who I haven't played in...4 or so years. I think it helps that I've made sort of rules and restrictions for myself, like 'you can't play Nathan unless it's as a girl' or 'you can't play Rhea unless she has a dad and he's pb'd by Idris Elba'. It's kept my "main" cast out.
I'm still tired from this morning. My friend woke my up at 6am panicking over an essay due in this morning which she...hadn't done. I don't really know what people want from me when things like that happen. I guess just comfort/sympathy. It's hard for me to not go "WHAT THE FUCK" but she's stressed out from stuff going on at home, I guess.
Also had a Q&A with a different prof - my tutor, Aris - about my media coursework on Tuesday. That was interesting - mostly we were talking about Come Dine With Me and how the narrator basically enters into conversation with the contestants and the audience - saying 'this contestant is stupid because' and 'you should not behave like this person because'. Sooo that is what I am doing my discourse analysis on.
I also got my content analysis back. Basically assembled the whole thing in 48 hours, got 73% and the professor for that class - who's ignored me and my 'so uh basically I am under a lot of stress could I get an extension' emails all semester greeted me with a smile when she saw me in the corridor. I didn't know what to say so I just sort of...sidled off.
I'm still looking for that perfect Come Dine With Me ep to analyse. I thought I'd go for one set in the north because the narrator is southern and tends to mock the accents of northerners or makes snide comments about the slang used, but the closest is Birmingham. And the Birmingham ep had a person in it who was pretty disgusting (taking their half-chewed food out of their mouth, comparing their meal to dog food/excrement) that I...couldn't watch it in detail. So I figured that I'd just write up my proposal then give myself a break for the rest of today. I got movies out - The Big Sleep (a story about a giant narcoleptic) Fargo (a documentary on Minnesota) and The 400 Blows (Rocky XX) so I figure I'll have a movie night, then go back to slaving away over a hot word document.
I was thinking about RP as I got back (mostly because I have a few tags I need to return qq) from buying some wine and idk I find it interesting that my character execution in GH is completely different from what I had expected. I've played characters like Mack/Miach/Tristan (4 years), Rhea and Nathan (3 years) for...a long time and I sort of expected to find myself slipping into their voices at some point. In fact, I completely accepted it - which is why I apped Cataline first, since she's such a different/challenging character type for me.
Instead - well, I'm definitely repeating character types, but ones I never expected to repeat on. Dee is definitely a Matty type and I haven't played Matty regularly/well since Countshire. Ressey is Helga who I haven't played in...4 or so years. I think it helps that I've made sort of rules and restrictions for myself, like 'you can't play Nathan unless it's as a girl' or 'you can't play Rhea unless she has a dad and he's pb'd by Idris Elba'. It's kept my "main" cast out.
I'm still tired from this morning. My friend woke my up at 6am panicking over an essay due in this morning which she...hadn't done. I don't really know what people want from me when things like that happen. I guess just comfort/sympathy. It's hard for me to not go "WHAT THE FUCK" but she's stressed out from stuff going on at home, I guess.