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Old news [Monday, May. 07, 2007, 5:40 pm]
According to the diaryland "buddy list," I haven't updated this in something like two weeks, but that's not true - I did an entry on the Matrix a while ago, but there were some issues submitting it so I guess it didn't show up in some places. And yeah, I haven't enjoyed the Diaryland server being down - but in their defense, it has been a while since anything like that has happened. It still beats Myspace. So I guess I'll just copy and paste my last few Xanga entries here. They were intended for here, but under the circumstances, Xanga is where they had to go. ........................................ As much as I love being an English major (most of the time), I sometimes wish that I had a more even amount of tests and papers. Sometimes I just want to go to class, take an exam, and get out of there, instead of spending all weekend trying to concentrate on forming extensive, cohesive ideas for the 3+ papers-worth (or so) of writing that I have to do. Imagine how much worse it'll be next semester with 5 English classes... I really can't believe I'm leaving this place in less than a week. I don't know what I'm going to do with myself this summer. I mean, I'd really like to hope I'll be working full-time (or close to it) to save up for next semester, making headway on my reading list, and doing some writing and photographing, but it will be so weird with hardly any college students in the vicinity anymore. *sigh* There's a part of me that really resents having to revise poetry for class. My argument is that I usually just get to the point where I feel that if I tried to make any more significant changes to a poem, I'd be changing it into something else. And I'd much rather just write a whole new poem at that point, than continue to tear apart an old one. My first photography professor was kinda like that too. She seemed to have the idea that you can never do something right the first time - that a good print can only come about as the result of manipulation and experimentation in the dark room. Maybe I'm just lazy. I certainly respect professors who won't let students just coast along, and instead force us to work hard to improve our skills in things. At the same time, I often wonder if the revision often just seems more appealing because it's "new." I also feel like I have to just let poetry sit for a long time before I really feel the desire to try and change it. That's why it's hard doing it in such a short time, because it feels like I'm working too quickly. Anyway, we had to write a Sapphic in class yesterday, and I accidentally wrote mine "backwards" (or inside-out?). The pattern of the first three lines is supposed to be like this (if s= stressed syllable, u=unstressed syllable): But I totally did it wrong, and so mine has stresses where they aren't supposed to be, and unstressed syllables where the stresses are supposed to be. So I'm calling it an anti-sapphic. It was fun, anyway. Maybe more of a challenge too. I find it's sometimes easier to write about nature when first experimenting with a form. So this is about a sunset: A night rolls back from blank fields of faded hues. A vision crowning first gleams of sun-lit day. ........................................ So was anyone else aware that there's a British site that lets you watch a whole bunch of movies and TV shows online for free? As much as I like this, I'm wondering if discovering this right before finals was such a good thing... http://www.tv-links.co.uk/index.do/4 ........................................ So I wrote a paper on Myspace for Cultural Studies, and it ended up being almost 11 pages. I probably could have gone on if I wanted to, but I have other stuff to worry about. I did discuss some aspects of Facebook in it as well, so I guess the basic point was that interaction on sites like those gets us used to being "watched" by others. So here are a few excerpts of what I came up with:
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