Update about exams, essays, work and umm... festivals
I just found out my exam timetable. It disturbs me somewhat:
29th May - Atlantis: The History of a Legend
30th May - Romanticism and Critical Theory
2nd June - The Tale
7th June - Introduction to Political Thought
They are all sandwiched together, and much later than all my seminar leaders led me to believe they would be. Ew.
All the same, I can't believe the time is here to start thinking about exams! This year has gone so quickly, its ridiculous. I signed up for next years modules the other day; I’m taking two on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, one on comedies and the other tragedies. The other modules are on Medieval and Tudor literature followed by Early Modern (being 1590 to 1660). The only other options were American literature - which I disliked studying at A level.
On a better note, I recieved my essay back from The Tale a few days ago - the one on Perrault's fairy tales - and managed to get 70% which I was pleased with. =)
Also my shipment from Amazon arrived yesterday containing Gaiman’s “Preludes and Nocturnes” and “Odd and the Frost Giants” and Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” which I’ve been wanting to read for a while, and now I actually need to read it as its on the prescribed reading for one of the final weeks of The Tale.
I composed a list of epic proportions the other day, re festivals, considering which one I should grant the honour of my attendence. Having reasonably cut down the possible festivals to BOA, Download, Graspop, Rock am Ring, Wacken and Hellfest which could all be travelled to relatively inexpensively I then discovered that actually Download and Rock am Ring had very few bands in comparison for me to see, and I decided I'd probably end up going to BOA whatever happens (being only weeks after my birthday means I shall have Teh Monies). This left Wacken, Hellfest and Graspop and for the first time ever the lineup at Wacken is actually quite dissapointing...
So Hellfest or Graspop? Both have awesome lineups and I'm pretty much completely torn. At the moment Graspop is winning, I knew a few people including snowonyourlips who will hopefully be going, PLUS I was talking to Tristan the other night and he and Phil are contemplating hiring a campervan to drive there. Which would rock so much. And both palodelvampiro and sancta_terra are also thinking about going... But then Hellfest has Paradise Lost and Porcupine tree. Oh such dilemas of festivally proportions.
Anywaaaay, I really ought to be getting on with this essay on Huxley's Brave New World - I plan on writing at least another thousand words before I allow myself to go to the St Patrick's day celebrations in K-bar...
29th May - Atlantis: The History of a Legend
30th May - Romanticism and Critical Theory
2nd June - The Tale
7th June - Introduction to Political Thought
They are all sandwiched together, and much later than all my seminar leaders led me to believe they would be. Ew.
All the same, I can't believe the time is here to start thinking about exams! This year has gone so quickly, its ridiculous. I signed up for next years modules the other day; I’m taking two on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, one on comedies and the other tragedies. The other modules are on Medieval and Tudor literature followed by Early Modern (being 1590 to 1660). The only other options were American literature - which I disliked studying at A level.
On a better note, I recieved my essay back from The Tale a few days ago - the one on Perrault's fairy tales - and managed to get 70% which I was pleased with. =)
Also my shipment from Amazon arrived yesterday containing Gaiman’s “Preludes and Nocturnes” and “Odd and the Frost Giants” and Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” which I’ve been wanting to read for a while, and now I actually need to read it as its on the prescribed reading for one of the final weeks of The Tale.
I composed a list of epic proportions the other day, re festivals, considering which one I should grant the honour of my attendence. Having reasonably cut down the possible festivals to BOA, Download, Graspop, Rock am Ring, Wacken and Hellfest which could all be travelled to relatively inexpensively I then discovered that actually Download and Rock am Ring had very few bands in comparison for me to see, and I decided I'd probably end up going to BOA whatever happens (being only weeks after my birthday means I shall have Teh Monies). This left Wacken, Hellfest and Graspop and for the first time ever the lineup at Wacken is actually quite dissapointing...
So Hellfest or Graspop? Both have awesome lineups and I'm pretty much completely torn. At the moment Graspop is winning, I knew a few people including snowonyourlips who will hopefully be going, PLUS I was talking to Tristan the other night and he and Phil are contemplating hiring a campervan to drive there. Which would rock so much. And both palodelvampiro and sancta_terra are also thinking about going... But then Hellfest has Paradise Lost and Porcupine tree. Oh such dilemas of festivally proportions.
Anywaaaay, I really ought to be getting on with this essay on Huxley's Brave New World - I plan on writing at least another thousand words before I allow myself to go to the St Patrick's day celebrations in K-bar...