Entertainment Stuff

Met Sara at the library. Got some reading and research done and then she talked me into getting Mexican food. It filled a craving I didn't know I was having. Enchiladas. YUM. Came back for the Oscars. Yea, weekend. (Although weekends that I stay on campus don't feel like weekends. They just feel like days classes get cancelled.)

( Oscars )

And once the Oscars were over, there was new ( Battlestar Galactica )

Last night, in need of a really good scary movie, Natasha and I rented Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo del Diablo). It was good. I think that in AFI's scariest movie moments (the one that always runs on Bravo around Halloween) del Toro mentions that there's nothing more frightening than being a child. (I could be wrong.)

And I just finished watching Clerks II. It was funny. Thought it ended a little abruptly. Is it weird that parts that should have been shocking weren't necessarily that shocking to me? I should probably see Clerks now.

( Political Quiz-Meme-Thing )

Final Essay Preparation

Not that I'm that worried or anything, but if I don't get into the classes I want my FINAL QUARTER here I will be most seriously displeased.

Should be fine though.

In Irish Lit we found out that and option for our final paper was to write something creative in which characters from two or three of the texts engage in conversation with each other. Fr. Duffy (I just wrote "Buffy." Whoops.) kept emphasizing how important it was to make sure the characters were still in character. Of course, I'm sitting there thinking about how it's all really just crossover fanfiction and how I can't imagine attempting to write anything in the voice of Stephen Dedalus.

I think it's great that he's offering us a more creative option, but I was also a little surprised by how many people were excited about the chance to write creatively. Um? Aren't some of them creative writing majors? I know I'm not the only person that uses down time to write creatively.

Someone also asked, "Isn't it supposed to be a research paper?" Well, I'm certainly not going to attempt to write a short story/play about post-WWI Ireland without doing some research.

Anyway. Reactions were interesting. And while it's refreshing to have the option, I think I'm going to stick with my interest in Yeats and Eastern philosophies/theologies.

Meanwhile, I have a prospectus and annotated bibliography due tomorrow in Masculinity. I know what I want to do my final essay on, so the prospectus isn't that difficult. But I'm still looking for at least one other essay for the bibliography. And one of the ones that I already have makes me a little nervous. Somehow, as students, we get into the mindset that what we have to say, our interpretation of the texts involved, isn't as relevant as what someone published has to say. Because we don't have that gloss of authority. Which is kind of silly, because no one just starts out with authority. They get it through publishing essays that enter into dialogue with people who had "authority" before them.

So I'm reading this essay and it's saying that certain ways I would like to read The Knight's Tale are wrong and I'm sitting here going, "But I still think I have a valid point to make." I just have to remember that that's the point of essay writing (at least of this kind). And I feel pretty comfortable with my reading of The Knight's Tale (Theseus in particular). But that doesn't mean I'm not a little iffy about taking a stand and arguing it when I feel less than qualified.