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tenlittlebullets) wrote2010-09-13 09:38 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2010-09-13 09:38 pm
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Of fun things.
Had my first special-studies meeting and my first fencing lesson today! Fencing might be one of the few things I will enjoy even though I suck royally at it: not only am I completely uncoordinated (a problem shared by most of the other beginners I think), I am incorrigibly pigeon-toed. My leading foot/knee is always facing too far inwards, and I was cheerfully informed multiple times that I will horribly fuck up my knee if I keep it up. Joy! But it was fun, and exercise is Of The Good, and even with rehearsals on Wednesday nights this means I will probably be getting a workout at least three times a week. More if I keep biking into town. Got catcalled by a bunch of asswipes in a Jeep Wrangler as I was on my bike huffing and puffing up the hill back to school today, so my new goal is to have enough breath left on that hill to cuss them out next time it happens.
I went into the special-studies meeting terrified. Scared shitless. No idea what I was going to say, or how much I was going to be put on the spot. Turns out that having vague ideas for a central thesis makes me 150% more organized than most people going in for a special studies! The meeting itself was half "this is what you have to do/here, let me hunt up resources for you" and half plain old gossiping about people who've been dead for 150 years. Mostly about how everyone was a complete dick to the Duchesse de Duras. Shit, I can write a paper on this stuff?
Prof admitted to being surprised to get a special-studies request from me and discover it was about Gay-Ass Romantic Lit and not Victor Hugo. "I thought you would be doing something on Les Misérables!" Perhaps I should have explained that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
toi_marguerite already has that covered for this year, and I don't want to undercut her sterling work about how Ol' Vic's political beliefs had a direct effect on his authorial hard-on for Enjolras. Also, Gay-Ass Romantic Lit is fun. And writing a fifty-page paper about Les Misérables would require picking a topic.
...actually, a fifty-page paper on how the musical contributes to fan interpretations of the novel would be fun, but I HAVE NO SOCIOLOGY OR ANTHROPOLOGY BACKGROUND so it would be a bad idea. BAD IDEA. MUST NOT DO THAT SECOND SEMESTER.
I went into the special-studies meeting terrified. Scared shitless. No idea what I was going to say, or how much I was going to be put on the spot. Turns out that having vague ideas for a central thesis makes me 150% more organized than most people going in for a special studies! The meeting itself was half "this is what you have to do/here, let me hunt up resources for you" and half plain old gossiping about people who've been dead for 150 years. Mostly about how everyone was a complete dick to the Duchesse de Duras. Shit, I can write a paper on this stuff?
Prof admitted to being surprised to get a special-studies request from me and discover it was about Gay-Ass Romantic Lit and not Victor Hugo. "I thought you would be doing something on Les Misérables!" Perhaps I should have explained that
toi_marguerite already has that covered for this year, and I don't want to undercut her sterling work about how Ol' Vic's political beliefs had a direct effect on his authorial hard-on for Enjolras. Also, Gay-Ass Romantic Lit is fun. And writing a fifty-page paper about Les Misérables would require picking a topic....actually, a fifty-page paper on how the musical contributes to fan interpretations of the novel would be fun, but I HAVE NO SOCIOLOGY OR ANTHROPOLOGY BACKGROUND so it would be a bad idea. BAD IDEA. MUST NOT DO THAT SECOND SEMESTER.