Today: Sleep
Feb. 2nd, 2010 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI swear I woke up at 0700 today and set out to get things done. I got all the reading out and sat down to read it. And then it was 1030 and I was dozing off in uncomfortable twists and gave up and went back to bed.
... I think I went to bed before 7pm last night. This is ridiculous.
I got woke up once in the middle of the day to get a parcel :-)
... I was sure it was going to arrive on a college day so I'd have to trundle along and get it, but no, big heavy box o books arrived more or less safely. I'm going to email SJGames Warehouse 23 about their packing because the box got dropped on its corner so teh hardback books at the bottom have a curvy corner too. Not bad enough to send back or anything, perfectly readable, just a bit banged up. The box had a ton of packing nuts in it (is that the word? Those twisty thingies made of foam) but they were all on top of the books, which filled up the whole box edge to edge below that. Then the box was in a big plastic bag, which didn't say anything like 'books! don't throw it!' and was getting dumped on corners at random, because you do with a bag. So it arrived dry and safe, but bumped. That seems avoidable to me just by redistributing the packing.
... I'm picky. I know. I will be careful to phrase it as 'trying to be helpful' and also to say thanks.
There was a shiny Munchkin silver piece in the box too. Which was a bugger to find in among the packing nuts, but a nice extra. If I ever play Munchkin it will also be useful, but shiny is plenty good too.
I tried doing more reading. I even finished re-reading everything we did in class yesterday, in the quiet where my brain will notice all the words. Then I fell asleep again again.
*headdesk*
... actually, there was no desk.
*headpillow*
So finally I woke up and had cunningly brought sports drinks to bed with me so I just drank too much sugar and read the new handouts.
... Victorian prostitution practices and attitudes to it make me want to slap an entire century. *shudders*
When we studied movies they were all serial killers, criminals, and prostitutes. So now we're studying popular culture and guess what it's going to be? Yes. So, either the teacher was being clever and thematic, or he has a Thing. I quite like the tidy sort of detective story where nothing gets too grim and the killer gets caught in the end, or the magic sort where somewhere in the middle the protagonist needs the hospital and has possibly set their own hand on fire or something but you know they're going to blast hell out of the bad guys by the end and recover between books, but I did not like the serial killer films or the prostitutes or the pointless crime film, so I'm not so sure I'm going to like this set of studying. But I can read lots of Sherlock Holmes, and there's stuff in the reader about lesbian detectives that I'm sure will lead to interesting reading too. Also I already own one of the recommended reading theory books and liked it plenty enough to read it over again.
I just feel we could learn quite a lot by studying romance, and not need to bleach our brains out quite as often. College tends towards the brain bleach section as if it's somehow more important or valuable. I feel fairly strongly it is not.
Next I must read some more essays about the things I already read.
Hopefully I can stay awake long enough to do so.
... and then sleep before college tomorrow.
:eyeroll:
... I think I went to bed before 7pm last night. This is ridiculous.
I got woke up once in the middle of the day to get a parcel :-)
... I was sure it was going to arrive on a college day so I'd have to trundle along and get it, but no, big heavy box o books arrived more or less safely. I'm going to email SJGames Warehouse 23 about their packing because the box got dropped on its corner so teh hardback books at the bottom have a curvy corner too. Not bad enough to send back or anything, perfectly readable, just a bit banged up. The box had a ton of packing nuts in it (is that the word? Those twisty thingies made of foam) but they were all on top of the books, which filled up the whole box edge to edge below that. Then the box was in a big plastic bag, which didn't say anything like 'books! don't throw it!' and was getting dumped on corners at random, because you do with a bag. So it arrived dry and safe, but bumped. That seems avoidable to me just by redistributing the packing.
... I'm picky. I know. I will be careful to phrase it as 'trying to be helpful' and also to say thanks.
There was a shiny Munchkin silver piece in the box too. Which was a bugger to find in among the packing nuts, but a nice extra. If I ever play Munchkin it will also be useful, but shiny is plenty good too.
I tried doing more reading. I even finished re-reading everything we did in class yesterday, in the quiet where my brain will notice all the words. Then I fell asleep again again.
*headdesk*
... actually, there was no desk.
*headpillow*
So finally I woke up and had cunningly brought sports drinks to bed with me so I just drank too much sugar and read the new handouts.
... Victorian prostitution practices and attitudes to it make me want to slap an entire century. *shudders*
When we studied movies they were all serial killers, criminals, and prostitutes. So now we're studying popular culture and guess what it's going to be? Yes. So, either the teacher was being clever and thematic, or he has a Thing. I quite like the tidy sort of detective story where nothing gets too grim and the killer gets caught in the end, or the magic sort where somewhere in the middle the protagonist needs the hospital and has possibly set their own hand on fire or something but you know they're going to blast hell out of the bad guys by the end and recover between books, but I did not like the serial killer films or the prostitutes or the pointless crime film, so I'm not so sure I'm going to like this set of studying. But I can read lots of Sherlock Holmes, and there's stuff in the reader about lesbian detectives that I'm sure will lead to interesting reading too. Also I already own one of the recommended reading theory books and liked it plenty enough to read it over again.
I just feel we could learn quite a lot by studying romance, and not need to bleach our brains out quite as often. College tends towards the brain bleach section as if it's somehow more important or valuable. I feel fairly strongly it is not.
Next I must read some more essays about the things I already read.
Hopefully I can stay awake long enough to do so.
... and then sleep before college tomorrow.
:eyeroll: