stunt_muppet

I just have one more paper. One more, and then I get to leave for Thanksgiving Break.

Of course I haven't started that one paper yet. What do you think I am, a conscientious student? Pah.

The trouble is that I can think of a topic I can prattle on about for five pages, and I actually think it's a really neat idea, but I can't figure out where I'm meant to go with it. Comparing Antony and Cleopatra to Henry V and Falstaff seemed like such a clever idea, but after that I just don't know what sort of point I'd make by pointing out that Antony is like a less-Machiavellian and capable Henry and Cleopatra is like a female royal Falstaff, except as a tragic character. Maybe the point would be that Shakespeare was trying to show that Machiavellian politics weren't new, that even The Roman Forefathers engaged in them - and thus maybe removing some of their stigma? Or that Antony is who Henry might have become had his attachment to his friends and Falstaff been genuine, if he'd fulfilled his promises to Falstaff?

This seemed like a much better idea when I was thinking it over in the shower. But then, everything seems like a better idea in the shower. It's where my best thinking happens. Clearly this means I should shower all the time with a small, miraculously waterproof notebook in there, but then were it not disastrously bad for the environment I would be quite happy to stand under hot running water all day and think about things.

...I just realized what an awkward introduction this much be to people new to this journal. Um, hello, new people here from the Doctor Who Friending Meme that I was too preoccupied all day to make a pimp post for! I promise I don't complain about school and talk about showers all the time. Most of the time, maybe, but not all the time.

Hmm, other things I wanted to talk about...Oh, three points:

1. Lessons has been posted to Teaspoon; give the mods time to clear it through the Queue, as I only just submitted it. At this rate I am seriously considering dropping Yuletide just because I underestimated just how busy I was going to be at the end of this semester, though most of that is just pent-up frustration at not being able to find by recipient's Dear Author Letter, augh augh augh. Well, I know what I'll be doing with my spare hour on the plane home. (Did you know planes have Wifi now? They do. I know, I was shocked too.)

Besides, if Yuletide's off my plate that gives me more wiggle room to work on Made Up Your Mind chapters 2 and 3, and now that I've done some plot-sketching and freewriting for the both of them I am really, really excited to start writing them in earnest. Although if I was really going to be virtuous I'd work on Memory and Experiment Chapters 3 and 2, ahem ahem.

I have got to increase this one-chapter-a-year pace. It's getting worrying.

2. The final project in my Film Studies requires us to play a video game and write 1000 words about how it adapts filmic and televisual techniques to tell a story. I am tempted to use Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, because a) It's my very favoritest video game ever, b) I've already played it which saves me whole scads of time, and c)I think there is a lot of essay material to be milked from the Sanit effects and the massive interface screw they involve. Of course, given that it is my very favoritest game ever, I'm not sure I'd be able to maintain the critical distance required of an analytical essay, and my essay will quite possibly degenerate into "BEST GAME EVAR OMG"*.

*I won't argue it really is the best evar, because there's never going to be an answer as to what is, but I really do love it that much. I hate to sound cliche, because every reviewer ever has said this, but it really is one of the counterexamples I hold up when people claim that video games cannot be a work of legitimate art. If you're a fan of horror, particularly of the Lovecraftian variety, you seriously owe it to yourself to track this game down. Go on. Do it. Gamecubes are cheap these days.

3. I finally watched the music video for Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance". It's a well-executed video, certainly, but I don't actually like the song very much. Not that I hate it, it's just...eh. Not my favorite track.

What I found far more fascinating were videos of Gaga performing "unplugged", with just her voice and the piano. Lady's got *pipes*. I'm duly impressed. :)


Okay I should finish my essay before it gets to be 4 a.m. again. Good night/morning, flist. Hopefully I will be home by the nest time I talk to you.