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I will get advice tomorrow, adjust as necessary and hand in - that leaves 'Postmodernism', Bluebeard and the IAS portfolio. Yay!!
The Yellow Wallpaper - Day Whatever
Apr. 26th, 2015 06:02 pm
I am done with The Yellow Wallpaper for now - I just want to get advice and shelve it until I have started the next subject. I am college tomorrow and need to chat to principle lecturer and the other lecturer and gen up on Post Modernism sooner rather than later.
I need a break - less than six weeks left now to complete it all.
00:07 (Monday Morning)
I had a sudden flush of inspiration and really manage to pull most of it together. Feeling TONS better, because it is more like the essay that I know I am capable of.
Now it's time for bed, said Zebedee
* ba-doiiing! *
The Yellow Wallpaper - Day 8
Apr. 25th, 2015 04:52 pm
Eight days, I ask you! Gone are the days when I knocked 'em out in five.This piece has been subjected to a number of rewrites - not JUST editing, but actually whole chunks being retyped. If the wallpaper is as hideous as the one above, then I can understand her gradual trip to Loony Central. I have been on this since about 10 this morning - my reasoning is that if I start too early, I burn out too quickly.
*plod plod plod *
Note to Self ::: for god sake figure out touch typing, lest you drive yourself mad in the third year.
20:51
I think I have dones really well today, probably 4/5ths done before I add essay observation, plus a line from Ibsen will be a good idea. However, I ache from being lashed to this bloody desk all day (9 hours all told). I will treat myself to tonights Inspector Montalbano
Salvo - o impegnarsi a Livia, o smettere di fare l'amore con cattive ma belle ragazze italiane (even if I find her irritating).
The Yellow Wallpaper - Day 7
Apr. 24th, 2015 02:37 pm
I did a day 6 yesterday, but it didn't go so well, plus and was too busy pulling my hair out to type anything else other than grrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!! Again, I am plodding on - but have turned off FB, listening to white noise and Classic FM through headphones. Once again, it sounds like I am taking a blow torch to the London Philharmonic Orchestra - but it is the only way I can drown things out and get on with my work.
21:17
Classical Music & White Noise pays off - the essay currently stands at 3,649 words, which I have to blend and pare back, plus add the academic sprinkle (of which there are many). I was really hoping to get this all done by tomorrow night, however it is far more likely that I will have it sorted by late Sunday. Then I have to consider the New Tech essay (or at least read up on it, scare myself half to death, then do the Anna Barbauld essay instead).
The Yellow Wallpaper - Day 5
Apr. 22nd, 2015 12:04 pm
Doing more of the same, I'm afraid. Come back in 44 days and I might just get a life back.
17:53
All of my very very scrappy essay is all in one place now, with a whopping 2,588 words. Jeez and I haven't any academic sprinkles, or other texts with similar themes (Ibsen's A Dolls House automatically springs to mind), or proper quotes as yet. Will have to really mesh/blend/edit the lot. I think I am about a third done in regards to that part.
My problem is never that I don't have a lot to say, just that I have to say too much and I need to pare back.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Day 3
Apr. 20th, 2015 02:10 pm
Well, I needed something to have a topical laugh at - The Yellow Wallpaper is a bit thin re gags. More to do, alas. Make that a bucket more to do.
16:25
It has come to my attention just how this story runs in cycles. Trying to rationalise it myself - bit of a danger there. If I start waffling on about being stuck behind wallpaper, slap me.
16:25
It has come to my attention just how this story runs in cycles. Trying to rationalise it myself - bit of a danger there. If I start waffling on about being stuck behind wallpaper, slap me.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Day 2
Apr. 19th, 2015 02:33 pm
After doing quite a bit yesterday, I compiled more of the running interpretation today - I think I have got about half way through it. Really though, I should concentrate on the academic side to this. I have a feeling that I might do someting with the noted form, like at a later date spoof it up a bit as I have done with other hallowed works - such as "Dr Foster went to Gloucester" as told by the X-Files
Time for work - see if I can nail this sucker.
15:31
It appears that I am following my usual trail of resentment, because there is fantastic sunshine out there and I am shut in on my own. I have started to wander when bored. You can tell just how bored I have been - the aga lids are clean, the plants are fully watered and i have just pulled up a lot of weeds by the tower. My inner brat keeps whining that " But I did so much yesterday!!!" My outer self is practically nailing me to the chair, lest I procrastinate more and wander weed-wards towards the garden.
* sound of whip crack* - back to the chair!!!
23:19
I haven't been near the desk in hours. There is 1,848 words on the word count, plus I did 2,000 on the interpretation essay, which I have running alongside of it. I have recorded the YouTube version onto my dictaphone, so I can listen to it as a story in my spare time.
I will have to research the Edgar Allan Poe link at some point.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Day 1
Apr. 18th, 2015 12:25 pm
After reading, note-taking and some academic essay-studying, I am about to start this assignment. Interesting that CPG had an interest in Edgar Allan Poe - I will have to read his story The Black Cat, of which has a similar mad person narrating (but so did The Tell Tale Heart, as I recall - someone intellectually trying to justify their insanity).
19:38
Managed to do a staggering 1,049 words and a further 2,000 plus of my running commentary of understanding. I am hoping to mesh some of it into the essay. We then went out for an Italian (rather than staying in and watching one - I taped Inspector Montalbano instead. Wonder if I would ever get into Scandi Noir in the same capacity?).
The Yellow Wallpaper - The Prologue
Apr. 14th, 2015 10:17 pm
Tomorrow is another day :-)
A Change of Heart
Mar. 9th, 2015 07:27 pmAfter watching A Doll's House, I decided that I couldn't write an assignment on it. Possibly because I was drawing too many uncomfortable parallels. I may compare A Doll's House as a secondary reading; it just made me unexpectedly unhappy very deep down. So Instead, I am doing the Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper. I find the narrative voice less irritating, even though the script is more harrowing in places. For those not familiar with this story, it is about a woman mental decline from post natal depression, made ten times worse by her husband and supporting family. In short she is imprisoned in a bedroom allegedly for her own good.
Story is HERE
I have also changed my Romantics choice - I did Blake over two years ago and I think I will just regurgitate the stuff I did from Access and I don't really want to do this. So, I have gone for Anna Barbauld and her poems on autumn and spring. Still working on film script and I have to prepare my ILS rough draft for the lecturer, who is coming down from Plymouth (she will be assessing and recommending what I do for the major dissertation for the third).
