Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Last semester, I fell ill on the first day of the exams and only recovered after the exams were over. This semester, I fell ill just before the last day of exams. Although the latter is preferable to the former, it still sucks when you've been looking forward to finally going out after being cooped up at school/home for a whole 15 weeks. I was supposed to go out shopping with my sister, but because of this confounded cold, I'm stuck at home sniffing and coughing away. And I really, really wanted to spend just one day without having to think about exams and the impending HT.
But I think I should be able to get some rest and 'distract' myself from the HT for a while, or I'll really go mad. I'm not kidding - exams and the HT have been on my mind so much that I've been dreaming about writing papers. Just a few nights ago I dreamt of rewriting the entire 20th century exam, only to wake up at the end of the dream asking myself, "Wait a sec - haven't I already done that exam? Isn't the next exam supposed to be Film Studies?"
Well, the Film Studies exam was this morning, and for the compulsory question, we were supposed to view a short clip from a film (it could have been one we hadn't watched for the module) and comment on the cinematic techniques used to define the 'star' of the film. The clip was a song and dance sequence from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, one of the films I 'spotted' but it really didn't matter if I had watched it again or not. And as a result of watching that film before the exam and watching the sequence twice during the exam, I'm sitting here typing this with "when love goes wrong, nothing goes right" going on loop inside my head. Ah well, at least it's better than getting the sappy Moon River theme from Breakfast at Tiffany's stuck in my head, which was what happened after I watched that film during the screening.
So back to reality, where there are far more pressing problems than the fulfilment of the romance plot, which, to quote the question from the 20th Century exam, is "a delusion foisted onto women by patriarchy". I think I'll read people's blogs for a while, which I haven't done for quite some time, then head upstairs to take a nap, hopefully without any more dreams of writing papers.
kaoru said at 10:28 PM
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