My plan for the exam

At least: Three texts, two genres, two blocks of the course.
Pick a topic: Gender, Women, Sisters

Block One:
Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Women of England, their Social duties, and Domestic Habits (1839)
Christina Rosetti, Goblin Market (1862)
and a bit of useful comparison to Rosetti's In An Artist's Studio (1856)
Block Two:
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1860)

all I've got for Block Three is that there's not many women in Heart of Darkness because, the Marlow character says, basically, they're better off out of it. They have a happy happy world and telling them true things would just be mean. Or something. But I don't need any from Block Three.

Okay:

Ellis ( Read more... )

Goblin Market ( Read more... )

The Woman in White, ( Read more... )

published a bit before Goblin Market. Perhaps I could write about it first? ( Read more... )

So it took me like an hour to write up that summary bit. on the plus side, I'll be able to fill a three hour exam. On the minus side, I'm fairly sure all that all wouldn't get me very good grades.

Study is hard.

Also, at least this semester, both annoying and boring.

I know there's a ton of texts being weird about women. Look at the poor fragile women, aw look at them being all caring and doing nurse stuff and also things to do with food, there they are in their nice neat place. Yuck.

I want to go back to watching Doctor Who or, I don't know, martial arts movies. They're weird about women but there's more kicking arse mixed in.

I'm so going to fail this semester.

Still in the box.

The place that maybe wanted to swap flats with me now no longer wants to swap flats with anyone.
So, that's one decision not happening then.
Back to applying for flats every week and being a couple dozen back in the queue and never getting anywhere.

There's only another year at college though, after that I might not even stay in Norwich.
I mean, I will, because I'm not big on change, but there's no rule that says I have to.

I don't know what I'm doing after college.
At all.
I try and imagine it and... blank screen.

I could try studying some more.
I looked up Theology degrees, because studying stuff that says it has answers might be nice.
Apparently they're easier to get funding for as a second degree, and lots of people do it that way.

I'm kind of fed up of studying stories that we then analyse for all the ways people suck.
Maybe it would be more fun to study texts that are more about how people are cool.
Except I'm not sure what subject area would really cover that.

I try and think of what to do with the rest of my life and come up with F&SF plots.
Not writing them, just as the only things that ever spring to mind.
It's kind of unhelpful.