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the office chart #9
May. 16th, 2012 01:08 amThe office chart for my days of revision, laptop withdrawal and...revision again. I do a joint honours degree in English Literature and American Studies, so my mind has been going kind of crazy with very old bad poetry, critical theorists and wicked novels relating to hyphenate American identites.
I've had to make some more academic choices recently. My dissertation proposal needed revision, so I've been writing that up in a frenzy, and I'm presenting it tomorrow to my head of department. She's a scary lady. I'm scared.
It's kind of typical English Admin sloppiness. I met with my personal tutor yesterday and he fiiiinally saw fit to let me know that, since I'm going abroad, my dissertation must be related to American Studies rather than English Literature. This would have been a wonderful thing to know in, say, February, when I began planning the academic focus of the next two years of my life.
Luckily, I keep a backup plan at all times, so my new (pending) dissertation topic is an examination of the roles that liminality and transformation play in the development of Sylvia Plath's female. Praise god for American literature, because I am not doing a dissertation in history! I considered film options briefly, but I guess I am (and always will be) a book girl. And Sylvia Plath is very close to my heart, so I can't honestly say I'm unhappy with how this has turned out. I do love me some Angela Carter though, so I shuffled her gender-bendingly awesome novel, The Passion of New Eve, to my Critical Theory essay. So...huff, huff, huff, so much work...!
Oh, and the AMLOR sequel grows in plotting. It needs a guest star...and I have some plans about that. Ahahaha...
Most of all, I am scuffling around for a name for it.
So a two-part office chart: one for music, and one for book recommendations - both newly discovered and old favourites.
1. Andrew in Drag - The Magnetic Fields
2. Honeycomb - Animal Collective
3. I Spy - Pulp
4. 100,000 Fireflies - The Magnetic Fields
5. I've Seen It All - Björk feat. Thom Yorke
6. Take a Walk - Passion Pit
7. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
8. The Headmaster Ritual - The Smiths
9. Promises of Eternity - The Magnetic Fields
10. Gotham - Animal Collective
1. The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter
2. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
3. Beloved, Toni Morrison
4. Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee
5. The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
Okay, so I'm finally done. It's hard not to ramble when you're in the uni library at one in the morning. There's an uncommon amount of people still around. Damn it, exams!
I've had to make some more academic choices recently. My dissertation proposal needed revision, so I've been writing that up in a frenzy, and I'm presenting it tomorrow to my head of department. She's a scary lady. I'm scared.
It's kind of typical English Admin sloppiness. I met with my personal tutor yesterday and he fiiiinally saw fit to let me know that, since I'm going abroad, my dissertation must be related to American Studies rather than English Literature. This would have been a wonderful thing to know in, say, February, when I began planning the academic focus of the next two years of my life.
Luckily, I keep a backup plan at all times, so my new (pending) dissertation topic is an examination of the roles that liminality and transformation play in the development of Sylvia Plath's female. Praise god for American literature, because I am not doing a dissertation in history! I considered film options briefly, but I guess I am (and always will be) a book girl. And Sylvia Plath is very close to my heart, so I can't honestly say I'm unhappy with how this has turned out. I do love me some Angela Carter though, so I shuffled her gender-bendingly awesome novel, The Passion of New Eve, to my Critical Theory essay. So...huff, huff, huff, so much work...!
Oh, and the AMLOR sequel grows in plotting. It needs a guest star...and I have some plans about that. Ahahaha...
Most of all, I am scuffling around for a name for it.
So a two-part office chart: one for music, and one for book recommendations - both newly discovered and old favourites.
1. Andrew in Drag - The Magnetic Fields
2. Honeycomb - Animal Collective
3. I Spy - Pulp
4. 100,000 Fireflies - The Magnetic Fields
5. I've Seen It All - Björk feat. Thom Yorke
6. Take a Walk - Passion Pit
7. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
8. The Headmaster Ritual - The Smiths
9. Promises of Eternity - The Magnetic Fields
10. Gotham - Animal Collective
1. The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter
2. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
3. Beloved, Toni Morrison
4. Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee
5. The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
Okay, so I'm finally done. It's hard not to ramble when you're in the uni library at one in the morning. There's an uncommon amount of people still around. Damn it, exams!
