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If I am not done by Sunday evening, or quit moaning by Monday morning - then I will be done with PM. My only comfort is that my fellow classmates are in the same boat and are cursing about the exact same stuff that I am whinging about. Hubby is out with a mate down from London and I am not taking any calls. Right now, it is just me and Classic FM (currently playing)

Let's get back to business.

17:13
So bored. Have weeded the patio, text some friends etc - but what I should ve doing is editing this damn text. C'mon - get to it!!!!!

23:45
I stopped work nearly 2 hours ago. I think that I am about 80% done. Tomorrow, I will print off the finished piece and extensively proofread. I aware that I will still have to signpost it better and keep the PoMo question in the forefront.

( An Oak Tree - Allegedly )

A Postmodern idea.....

Perhaps I will hand in a bottle of mineral water, a sandwich and a piece of cake and claim it to be my Postmodern assignment, my mini diss and my creative writing portfolio.

Just a thought.....

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Because of my husband's ongoing treatment, I have been granted 14 extra days for extenuating circumstances and will be able to get the whole of my coursework out. THAT will take the strain off a bit - thank you college and staff. 2,482 words done. Now I have a lot of hacking and rewriting to do, on what will be my 4th draft. Get the whole of this done by the weekend and I will be one happy bunny.

Back to study :-)

22:11
OK - have got hold of more useful quotes, mostly from Lyotard and some from Baudrillard - even good old Nietzche and McLuhan get a look-in. However, Derrida does my head in - there is no academic way of saying that. When you start to see the words 'centre', 'structure', 'destructure' repeated again and again - in fact multiple times within a paragraph, you are in danger of losing yourself down the rabbit hole that is Postmodernism. Pass me the sick bag, Alice (with apologies to Sir John Junor).

( You've Heard It All Before )

I am in the 2,100 region, but I have a LOT of sorting to do. Tomorrow, I will be totally on my own. Hubby is having a few hours work at establishments with comfy seating - all are mindful of his recent op, therefore he will be spoiled. I need to get my act together and sort something out. Then I am back to Bluebeard for the very last time.

Such a long, long road. Such a lonely one, too.

.............................................................................said nobody - EVAH!!!

(with thanks to

spikesgirl58)

I think I have broken through that bloody wall called Postmodernism. Not a lot of typing but a LOT of cutting and editing. looking a lot better, but still a way to go. Managed to do this via IAMX (a natural progression from Sneakerpimps, I feel).

Current Music: IAMX - I Like Pretending

It is 10:30 and I am in bed, with dread gnawing at the back of my mind. I'm really not getting to grips with Postmodernism. Or, rather I can understand it in art, architecture and just about every other medium, bar literature and communication, especially re media and the internet. Thankfully, I qualify for the extenuating circumstances form, but I have to resign myself to getting a low mark. AND I have to do my ILS/IAS work.

I am both exasperated and bloody exhausted with a time limit running on it. Nothing is falling into place as yet and my very real fear is that it won't ever get a grasp of it before the deadline. Plus, I still have to get to grips with the PoMo jargon etc.

I got 'The Fear.'

Out of anything I have done on this course, I think this part of the New Tech module is the part that sucks. Even with the Romantics, there is a framework to follow i.e. the sublime, the pure spirit of children, the altered state etc. Because of the changable nature of Postmodernism, you cannot clinch some of it, because just as soon as you think you KNOW what you are talking about, the bloody pattern shifts.

( Bowdlerised Definition )

So, how can you write a concise academic essay on it? It would have made better sense to have a Modernist module, THEN through the rule book out and study Postmodernist.

*sigh*

Back to the drawing board.

20:43
1,843 - there are better links on the FB forum thanks to our lecturer, but at this moment, I am done. Make that SERIOUSLY done.

Current Music: Classic FM - Various, but it is testing the very boundaries of my patience

Here I go again, down the vast rabbit hole of Postmodernism, where everything is challenged and nothing is certain blah, blah, blah. I won't start from absolute scratch, but I have a fair bit of research to do. I know I will score pretty low on this assignment, but Ihave the entire 3rd year to pick things up. Think I need to restructure a bit (how very un-Postmodern of me) - a fellow class mate has said that she will write every sixth word/verb in Arabic and submit it. It would most certainly contribute to the PoMo notion of randomness (or maybe not as it is every sixth word and therefore the text is still predictable).

Ha! Can't wait to get rid of this bloody module.

17:10
1,552 - so about 600 words up from the beginning of the day. Still a LOT of sorting out to do.

Current Music: Classic FM - Various

I will get advice tomorrow, adjust as necessary and hand in - that leaves 'Postmodernism', Bluebeard and the IAS portfolio. Yay!!

I have written 2,352 words on Barbauld before adding biography sprinkles, then rewriting it a little bit more 'academically' (it is a bit 'ABC Barbauld' at the moment). Then I have to signpost it a bit more obviously and then pare back to arround the 2,200 mark.

I am a bit perplexed at my writing commitment - originally I would read/note-take in the moring and write in the afternoon. These days, I am busy running around Hubby (nurse appointments), college, uni and then finding a burst of hyperbole about 9 o'clock at night, lasting to about now. I am hoping to get this dusted by Sunday evening, get the lecturer's advice for both The Yellow Wallpaper and Anna Barbauld, then maybe hand it in - leaving me with Post Modernism to do and the ILS/IAS to do.

I am knackered already and have less than three weeks :-/

Current Music: Any fricken' thing

A great few weeks for the FdA English Studies course at Truro College!

Three of our first years have managed to get into the Plymouth University magazine INK! with their poems on minerals – which can be read here at INK! WordPress page. Below are the specific links to their work.

Helen Draper – Matter

Jan Hobbs – Bitter Salt

Adam Kheroura – Gwrys yn Kernow (Made in Cornwall)

Adam has had his poem made into a short film, by Eia Film producer Alban Rionard, which makes this achievement all the more special. I am hoping to post the videos soon, when the embedding feature becomes available.

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Plus, India Tokeley has written a superb eBooklet for the Royal Cornwall Geological Society bicentennial celebrations, using our mineral poetry. She has done an excellent job, which can be seen by clicking the picture below.

Congratulations to all – more reasons to pursue Higher Education courses in Cornwall.

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Secretly very pleased with India's work, as all but two of the photos are mine. She's done an ace job :-)

I am doing a lot better on this assignment than I previously thought - the first half is over 1,100 and I plan to finish that tonight. Second half hopefully will be tomorrow and then off to the Mothership for the day. Thursday will be the day that I will make a brave attempt to understand Post modernism. Meanwhile - onward!

20:47
2,256 altogether and I haven't begun to truly expand the Beauty of Insects as yet. It does help to write them as two separate essays, then mesh them together. I have got at least another 244 words before I am over the limit, but will work til I have completed it, then judicial paring back.

Right now, I am done. 24 days left before the hammer falls - yikes!!!

Current Music: Classic FM/Blow Torch

Not sure if I entirely agree with Barbauld on this - we are united by the emotions we express as humans, but pretty insular when crying or praying (or however you communicate with the Divine if your preferences are that way). Maybe we unite more when we find joy. Will ponder on that another time.

Alas, I a really late to the desk and already find fault, viewing yesterdays work with todays eyes. I am going to have to signpost this a bit better i.e. keep my eye on the task and discuss Barbauld's influence on the Romantics.

20:40
1,703 - not a lot for today, just trying to concentrate on the soundscapes - all those fricatives and plosives etc. Eyes are crossed - think I am done for now, but aware that I have tons to do over the next few days. Plus I have to book a train ticket to Plymouth for this Wednesday. Going to trick myself that I am going to Hogwarts hahaha.

Current Music: Just Classic FM with Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen

( Autumn by Anna Laetitia Barbauld )

( Beauty of Insects - Anna Laetita Barbauld )

A neat quote, however I would settle for notion of thought at 14:45 of a Saturday afternoon. I have started this already because I have kicked Postmodernism to the kerb for a while. I can't afford to stare blankly at a screen for too long, when I could be doing something that I understand and leave that bloody subject for last. I even nostagically yearn for Bluebeard (due to start again in a week or so).

Problem is, I am not sure what indeed Barbauld contributed to the Romantic movements - some stunning poetry, yes and the fact she was a teacher for a long time (an interesting feat back in the late 18th c to early 19th c). Is there anything else that I could possibly wax lyrical about alongside a couple of lovely poems (I especially love her 'Beauty of Insects' one)?

I have turned off all forum activity and am back to Classic Fm and White Noise. I maybe gone for some time.

21:12
Well, I havve managed to get this up to 1,356 words from a mere 569, so I am on the right track. Tomorrow, I will expand re the Autumn poem, then move onto the Beauty of Insects

Time for Inspector Montalbano - Fazio è abbastanza carino - mi chiedo se dovrei imparare l'italiano?

Current Music: Classic FM/Blow Torch

I was meant to be getting on with a) Postmodernism or b) Anna Barbauld and so far I have done neither. But I HAVE rewritten both the The Big Sea and Valentine so I have added probably about 2,000 words to the portfolio. All is not totally lost and I have emailed them to a couple of people in the know, before I develop them further.

Plus, I have important books coming in the mail tomorrow - then I will be all guns blazing :-)

Ok - not so grumpy cat now. I am in a far better mood,because whilst clearing out a cupboard today, I found a stack of stuff from over a decade ago and looking through the pile an hour ago, I came across a short story I had written back in 2002. Really useful right now as I have to add more to my portfolio. Funny though, reading it with an FdA eye. Ironic too, as I have been music from that time a lot recently (specifically DMs 'Exciter' cd. Synchronicity. Gotta love it, especially when it comes in a handy 1,282 word format.

It was about the recovery from grief of the death of a loved one, but I would say that it represents an amalgam of loved ones now. It is tangled in a dream, in anycase.

Still, a turn up for the books.

Today sucked - our phone line is playing up again and I either have intermittent or nada internet. Pain in the ass, as reading Baudrillard or McLuhan pdf files online requires me To. Be. On. Line. If I printed the lot off, I would've sacrificed a chunk of the Amazon rain forrest. Talking of Amazon, I have had to order said books from said warehouse, so I can quote chapter and verse without TalkTalk pulling the plug.

Saying than, I have typed 1,000 words today - because of the cockups, I stopped writing one assignment and started on the Anna Barbauld one. Still feel like there has been little progress.

I must admit this gave me a headache. Then again, so did the Derrida recording. And the Lyotard lectures.

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Entries tagged with fda english y2

New Tech & Post Modernism - Day 80 (or that how it seems!)

An Oak Tree

Extenuating Circumstances Granted

New Tech & Post Modernism - Day 8?

Hey, How's the PoMo Work Coming Along?

I Like Pretending

PoMoNo Man's Land

New Tech & Post Modernism - Day 3

13 Days Left - Back to PoMo sigh

The Yellow Wallpaper/Anna Laetitia Barbauld - All Finished :-D

Anna Laetitia Barbauld - Day ??? (Can't Remember)

A Brilliant Day for the English Studies FdA!!

Anna Laetitia Barbauld - Day 3

Anna Laetitia Barbauld - Day 2

Anna Barbauld - The Prologue

Anna Laetitia Barbauld - It Begins

The Big Sea & Valentine

Calico_Pye - 1!

Calico_Pye - 0

The Medium is the Massage