Cranky!
Uni is eating everything I'd like to be working on alive. This isn't an unusual occurrence but it is chaffing me at the moment. For instance, I wanted to get up today and spend a couple hours advancing FtLoF and then turn my attention to an editing project as the author has been very patient with my snails pace so far. I also wanted to start working on rough drafts of the original art that will be supporting part of my portfolio for the Creative Writing module. Instead I'll be writing up a character with a secret for a paired/writing buddy based exercise as well as a philosophy precis on what Kierkegaard and Nietzsche thought about History.
One could be forgiven for thinking that both these tasks seem fairly straight forward and shouldn't take all day. The philosophy precis gets complicated as it's part analysis and part reflection, just regurgitating what you read won't work. There needs to be evidence of mental processing, personal evaluation and statements regarding the selected readings as well as possible counter arguments if you are up yourself enough to think your own ideas about the function and expression of history are good enough to debunk other recognized and respected thinkers.
I don't really want to discuss what is happening in the Creative Writing course to make me so unhappy openly at the moment. Private complications aside, I would have been displeased with the current assignment anyways as I really despise any form of team-work. It galls me to no end to have to depend on someone else to actually produce something that parallels as well as supports the quality of my own work. If that seems arrogant too bad, I've also had a belly full of being humble and modest to spare others lately.
I think Arnie playing Conan sums up how I have come to feel about Uni in general. When asked what is best in life he replies: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
One could be forgiven for thinking that both these tasks seem fairly straight forward and shouldn't take all day. The philosophy precis gets complicated as it's part analysis and part reflection, just regurgitating what you read won't work. There needs to be evidence of mental processing, personal evaluation and statements regarding the selected readings as well as possible counter arguments if you are up yourself enough to think your own ideas about the function and expression of history are good enough to debunk other recognized and respected thinkers.
I don't really want to discuss what is happening in the Creative Writing course to make me so unhappy openly at the moment. Private complications aside, I would have been displeased with the current assignment anyways as I really despise any form of team-work. It galls me to no end to have to depend on someone else to actually produce something that parallels as well as supports the quality of my own work. If that seems arrogant too bad, I've also had a belly full of being humble and modest to spare others lately.
I think Arnie playing Conan sums up how I have come to feel about Uni in general. When asked what is best in life he replies: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.