Readings

There's quite a lot to read in an Arts degree,  (not to mention write) but most of the time, especially for Film, I just don't feel like doing the readings.

I'm seriously considering dropping Film altogether,  so perhaps I shouldn't've reattempted Film at all 1~

Thanks for reading.  ^_^

“Snoring” a poem by Ian Hollis

In our first exercise for Introduction to English Literature, we had to analyze a poem ... I don't like poetry at all, and while I did make a weak attempt at analyzing the poem, I ultimately go so fed up with it, that I just ended up writing a poem about how much I dislike poetry, and here it is:

“Snoring” by Ian Hollis

Poetry, I like it not,
I find it such a bore.
Hours come and hours go,
snore, snore, snore.

The teachers seem to think it magic,
these words of long ago
Myself I think it’s rather tragic
Please can we let it go?

In lectures and tutorials,
it’s all explained quite clear,
but just to me it all goes in,
and out the other ear.

Tropes, and meters, figures too,
and their specific explanations
all this stuff I care not about,
it’s such pontification!

Complex the definition words,
I’m discombobulated,
Sonnets, Odes and prose and such,
it all seems so over-rated.

I know I’m not the only one,
who feels such as I do
This stuff I learnt so long ago,
My God, am I back at school?!

Those school days, I remember them,
and remember them quite clear,
Having lunch with all my friends,
my memories all quite dear.

Oh, what, what’s that; it’s time for class?
I found them such a bore.
Those hours came and those hours went,
snore, snore, snore.

My first test scores back! (Linguistics and Educational Psychology)

Okay so for Linguistics I got 34.5%, which, considering I never take notes, and haven't really read the text book, I think is pretty good.

For Educational Psychology I got a much more respectable 50%, the difference here being that I've actually read the text book.

As for Film and English, well those remain to be seen.

Wondering

Given how unauthorative my Film tutor is, tomorrow I'll be sitting in on another tutorial to see whether or not it's my tutor's distinct lack of "presence" or if it's something inherently in me making me want to drop this particular subject.  Then again, I never was particularly functional at 9 am.

I skipped two lectures today! (Not because I didn't feel like going).

I'm a part of many social clubs here at the university which I attend, and one of those groups is a Japanese-related culture group, and today, students from Kyoto University, who are here for two weeks studying English, came to be shown around campus, after which we went into the city.

The previous paragraph was certainly a long sentence!  (No, I'm not going to edit it ... well not much, anyway).

Anyway, I made the choice to help out with part of the tour (and later, Sydney sight seeing) instead of go to lectures (which I can catch up on later on my page on the university's website).

We finished the day up with a trip to French Riviera (Here's a blog about it: http://grabyourfork.blogspot.com.au/2008/01/french-riviera-sydney.html) eating a rather tall ice cream, of which I didn't particularly like the flavouring (It's hard to describe, but the flavouring of this ice cream was somehow to different to your average, run-of-the-mill ice cream)

I think some of the others may have gone off and done other things after that, but I for one came straight home (because I'm like that).

Tomorrow, the first film from Introduction to Film (I know not yet what it is, but I'll tell you tomorrow).

- Ian.

My homework for this week.

Well, I have to read the first 22 pages of "Cognitive Psychology" for Educational Psychology, and some poems for English, but I'm not sure when I'm meant to start reading The Tiger's Wife, and I'm not 100% sure what I'm supposed to do for Linguistics ~ I think I log onto my page on the universities website "Blackboard" and it tells me there somewhere ...

Looks like I have to buy the latest edition of the text book for Linguistics, because apparently some chapters ~ a whole two of them ~ have been "extensively revised".  Do you think it's a coincidence that the two "extensively revised" chapters are the ones that we'll be using the most?

Fuck!

Everybody go watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww4m8GUK69E

That went well.

I'm glad that the lecturer we have for linguistics is different to the one we had last time; the previous one had some weird kind of a speech impediment that she seemed to refuse to acknowledge, where as our current one just has a strong accent from his home country,  which would be Africa, I think.

And in half an hour, my first Introduction to English lecture begins ~