Monday, January 19, 2009
I've been through slightly more than a week of school, and so far, things are more or less OK.
After 2 weeks of frustration and anger and ranting, I've finally obtained the Cultural Studies module. Although I have a pretty big grudge against the general office, I'm very thankful that they have saved me at the last minute from having to sell out my body and my feminist principles. Depend on a man to help solve your problems? I would do better to depend on a cockscrew to dance the limbo for me. (Ok, ok, I'm over-generalizing. But the fact that I got the module because Wan Ching gave her place to me means I'm exempted from my own vow not to criticize the B anymore)
All my classes are at night but sometimes I'm in school in the daytime to study. The end-result of this is that my diet and biological clock are a little out-of-whack and I'm constantly feeling tired. I guess it'll take some time for me to get used to my strange new nocturnal existence, but I hope it won't take too long, because I want to be able to contribute actively in seminar discussions instead of staring at my own notes on Adorno and Horkheimer without making sense of anything.
I haven't quite gotten used to cultural studies and the not-very-likeable students in that class, but Gothic Properties and the Graduate Research Seminar seem very promising. I felt so alive during the first Gothic Properties seminar - it has been a long time since I've experienced the adrenaline rush of engaging in exciting intellectual discourse. And the lecturer for the GRS is a really cool Japanese female sociolinguist - who wears red eye-shadow and black fishnet stockings =)
I hope this is going to be a fun and enriching semester.
kaoru said at 7:25 AM
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