Did reading
Dec. 8th, 2012 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI got a whole hour and twenty minutes of reading done before a study avalanche happened and I had to fish everything out of the bin. The bin only had an empty envelope and an ex packet of hula hoops in though, so I don't think I need to tell the library what happened to all the books. Maybe I should get the cleaner wipes out before I give them back though.
I am reading Spectacular Bodies, a book I in no way chose because it has Jean Claude Van Damme on the cover, though that is notably easier on the eyes than most academic books. So far it keeps on making me think 'that film sounds interesting' followed by 'wait, I watched that film, those sentences describe the only interesting bit' or possibly 'huh, that... wasn't how I saw it'. Not that it's wrong, more that it's using big thinking where I was pretty much watching kicking movies and buddy cops and things going boom.
It already has a lot more English language women kicking arse movies than I knew of from the time, and it's not even the book primarily about them.
So I'm interested, but increasingly convinced it don't apply to Doctor Who. Especially the 'bodies' bit. Doctor Who has a tendency to involve clothes. Even Leela was wearing quite a lot. And the male bodies definitely kept their kit on. Climate and its influence on genre: not one I've seen covered in textbooks.
I did start working on my Life Writing essay. I tried to find what the teacher told me was relevant and useful in one particular handout, but found a whole lot of nothing much that can be boiled down to 'a bunch of other people have written about almost the same topic as me only actually not very much like it at all'. I shall have to scrape together relevant and useful from the whole terms reading and make it a lot shorter. Blah.
I also had a bath and am now wearing my new sleep shirt. It has these strap things to keep the sleeves rolled up. I can't currently think why I'd need rolled up sleeves to sleep in, so I unstrapped them and rolled them down, but now the straps are on the inside of the sleeves and it's peculiar.
The fact that my brain is much more likely to focus on this than on my reading explains much about my academic career, specifically the speed or lack thereof.
I have been studying at City College since 2002. I really, really want to finish my degree this time. Properly. In a way that reflects 11 years of effort. So I will totally get back to reading once it gets to be awake times again.
I am reading Spectacular Bodies, a book I in no way chose because it has Jean Claude Van Damme on the cover, though that is notably easier on the eyes than most academic books. So far it keeps on making me think 'that film sounds interesting' followed by 'wait, I watched that film, those sentences describe the only interesting bit' or possibly 'huh, that... wasn't how I saw it'. Not that it's wrong, more that it's using big thinking where I was pretty much watching kicking movies and buddy cops and things going boom.
It already has a lot more English language women kicking arse movies than I knew of from the time, and it's not even the book primarily about them.
So I'm interested, but increasingly convinced it don't apply to Doctor Who. Especially the 'bodies' bit. Doctor Who has a tendency to involve clothes. Even Leela was wearing quite a lot. And the male bodies definitely kept their kit on. Climate and its influence on genre: not one I've seen covered in textbooks.
I did start working on my Life Writing essay. I tried to find what the teacher told me was relevant and useful in one particular handout, but found a whole lot of nothing much that can be boiled down to 'a bunch of other people have written about almost the same topic as me only actually not very much like it at all'. I shall have to scrape together relevant and useful from the whole terms reading and make it a lot shorter. Blah.
I also had a bath and am now wearing my new sleep shirt. It has these strap things to keep the sleeves rolled up. I can't currently think why I'd need rolled up sleeves to sleep in, so I unstrapped them and rolled them down, but now the straps are on the inside of the sleeves and it's peculiar.
The fact that my brain is much more likely to focus on this than on my reading explains much about my academic career, specifically the speed or lack thereof.
I have been studying at City College since 2002. I really, really want to finish my degree this time. Properly. In a way that reflects 11 years of effort. So I will totally get back to reading once it gets to be awake times again.