School, Exhaustion, Last Port Of Call

Into the home stretch on finals.

I have a question: Why do people snicker when they edit my essays?

I was in conference with my teacher and there was a little snicker every paragraph or two. If it hadn't been accompanied with the nod (the nod is good) I'd worry. One of my peer reviewers did say she found my essays "always entertaining!!!"

My Hawthorne essay is done. My Lucy essay is done. My lit journal is done. *checks off the list, which both looks and feels good* Hopefully h_oserheidi won't have me shot on Monday for my 11th hour edit of her paper.

I've decided I like lit crit. I just loathe Spivak. I fear my Lucy essay reflects this loathing in an unmistakable way. Do you think using Freud, Singer, and Gallanter's work on the deceptive language of cults and comparing Spivak's writing style to "twin language" is going too far?

Nah. I got away with using The Onion as a source in a Shakespeare essay and got an A (oh yeah, I told you guys about that, didn't I?). Besides, the longer I'm in school the more I like Freud. You can stop a bus with Freud. I don't even agree with Freud, I'm more a Jung fan, but quoting Freud is like saying, "In a personal conversation with God I was informed that the diplodocus was originally intended to be bird."

I did dial it back though. One of my classmates read it, raised an amused eyebrow and said, "I take it you're no fan of post-modernism."

I have one more paper that's worth half my grade for the India class due on Tuesday. I love my British professor but am I the only one who thinks this is a good way to get a lot of shitty papers slapped together at the last minute? I... I'm drawing a complete blank on it, though fortunately I can draw on the material from my presentation.

I have a brutal Lit Crit exam to study for so it's time to research the classes I missed. When wildernessguru's mom got sick I spent more time on family than school. She's doing well in chemo now, very tired and the stuff has killed her appetite... but so far, so good.

Thank god most of what I missed was the Shakespeare section, given I took Shakespeare last quarter.

The discussion of Last Port Of Call continues to be fascinating but I've had to pull back and stop. #1 -- grades. #2 -- lack of sleep. #3 -- I'm so focused on school right now I'm not even sure my responses to Last Port will make sense. I re-read something I said to wickedwords and went "huh?"

Oh, and a thank you to cesperanza for pointing me to merryish's SGA Vid "Hello." Wow. Doesn't that capture the first season.

*A tired Icarus continues to ramble.*

You know, I've always wanted to do something a little more than a rec-list. Something like an anthology of stories for the year, like a New Year's gift to the fandom, with little bits about how the stories answered each other and were responding to new canon, what was going on at the time in fandom. painless_j has a meme/challenge/request for people to rec older stories and I see a need for this. I'd like to go back to 2003 and do one for HP. Except I think that regan_v would do a better job at the whole concept...

*Icarus wanders off absently*

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