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Worst student ever.
Feb. 20th, 2010 02:06 amI've been joking on Facebook tonight that I'm the worst student ever. I stayed in on a Friday night to study Doctor Faustus. Fail. I managed to get the whole chapter done though, which now gives me almost a month to do the first two-part TMA. Get in. I love Faustus, and that always helps. Happy happy! I'm not too hot on this week's Cleopatra malarkey though - I'm at a dead end with that part of the assignment and I've only done half the word count. Still, got a month. Exciting and scary, just how I like it. :)
The next chapter is Cézanne, and I'm not looking forward to that. I've never really been too involved in the world of the fine arts to be honest. Or dates. I peaked at the first couple of pages and it's all dates, dates, dates. There's a lot of history involved in this course which, so far, I have found myself skipping over a bit. I can visualise things in the past really well and am great at studying things in context, but I've never really had a brain for taking in dates or giving much of a toss about kings and queens and details about religions and all that. I read a book called Sophie's World recently that was excitedly recommended to me (basically, it's philosophy for noobs) and I found it a little tedious. "This bloke thought this on this date and it was really clever of him."
I'll probably get really into it. I do like thinking about people creating art in a completely different world to mine, it's just the facts I can't be arsed with. I guess I should've been prepared; something called "The arts past and present" is bound to essentially be an art history course. Haha. I know.
So yeah, a productive day, again! Worked through my Faustus week, did some DVD recording, visited my mum in her office, took the boys for a hilarious walk, tidied upstairs a little bit, cleaned all the floors, made a lovely dinner of LOADS OF VEGGIES, watched (spoiler) admit to killing Archie, wrote two blogs... it's just a shame I didn't make any money. Boo. Aaand the roadworks are still going, 8pm-2am each night. I was listening to some Rotersand rather loudly in my headphones earlier tonight, when the whole house started shaking. I thought it was an earthquake! Oh, and I made a mugcake earlier too:
Messy, yummy times!
The next chapter is Cézanne, and I'm not looking forward to that. I've never really been too involved in the world of the fine arts to be honest. Or dates. I peaked at the first couple of pages and it's all dates, dates, dates. There's a lot of history involved in this course which, so far, I have found myself skipping over a bit. I can visualise things in the past really well and am great at studying things in context, but I've never really had a brain for taking in dates or giving much of a toss about kings and queens and details about religions and all that. I read a book called Sophie's World recently that was excitedly recommended to me (basically, it's philosophy for noobs) and I found it a little tedious. "This bloke thought this on this date and it was really clever of him."
I'll probably get really into it. I do like thinking about people creating art in a completely different world to mine, it's just the facts I can't be arsed with. I guess I should've been prepared; something called "The arts past and present" is bound to essentially be an art history course. Haha. I know.
So yeah, a productive day, again! Worked through my Faustus week, did some DVD recording, visited my mum in her office, took the boys for a hilarious walk, tidied upstairs a little bit, cleaned all the floors, made a lovely dinner of LOADS OF VEGGIES, watched (spoiler) admit to killing Archie, wrote two blogs... it's just a shame I didn't make any money. Boo. Aaand the roadworks are still going, 8pm-2am each night. I was listening to some Rotersand rather loudly in my headphones earlier tonight, when the whole house started shaking. I thought it was an earthquake! Oh, and I made a mugcake earlier too:
Messy, yummy times!
