Friday, March 02, 2007
I'm streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessed.
Sigh, there's so much work to do and I don't seem to be getting much done. Why are there only 24 hours in a day and I have to spend at least 6 hours of it sleeping? And I didn't know ploughing through emails takes up such a long time.
Ok, CCA-related emails usually make me feel very stressed, but I like doing what I can for the club. And I enjoy reading and writing emails to Mika, my penpal from Japan who's the same age as me, a university student and who likes Diru too, and to my seniors, PK-senpai and Selene. PK-senpai is one of the rare Lit people who are willing to talk about Lit stuff and anime and Japanese culture in the same breath with me, and I'm very grateful to him for that. It's not hard to imagine that few people would want to discuss mind-boggling crit theory stuff like flaneurs and being (maybe with the exception of the 'cute' Tragedy tutor, hehe). So I shan't complain too much.
Lots of activities coming up in the next 2 weeks. We're having a special talk by an animator from Scrawl Studios + screening of Howl's Moving Castle on 9 Mar (Fri), at 7.30pm at the UCC, as part of our collaboration with the NUS Centre for the Arts. So if you guys have time, please come down and support us! It's free admission. =)
Just handed in my History paper on Renoir's Grand Illusion this evening. I actually handed in my paper together with Marianne and Kankan's, and so the lecturer now has 3 Lit students' essays with almost 100% literary criticism and 0% historical arguments. I believe the Heidegger girl (I must admit that although we know each other from Crit Theory class, I still don't know her name...) might write something philosophical and literary as well. I wonder how the lecturer is going to respond to this strange influx of 'literary' essays... Heh, he just will have to deal with it. =)
And as if it isn't enough for me to be grappling with the unending essays and texts, the mechanism is at work again. I thought I had triumphed over it but there it is, driving me nuts again. PY and Minwei tell me that I shouldn't feel too bad about it but the truth is, I don't think I'm handling the whole issue very well. I really should try to rein the mechanism in.
Let's see if I'm successful...
kaoru said at 7:37 AM
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