Sway

I LOVE having my boom box! I've been flooding my brain with music now that i have the opportunity once again. I've had Tanya Donelly and Vanessa Carlton on repeat for days. Be Not Nobody and Beautysleep are really good albums. Vanessa is a good composer and could be a pretty decent performer if she could write better lyrics and maybe take a couple of singing lessons. Not that her voice is bad, it just needs a little more pollish. And considering that fact that she's what? 10? I'm sure her lyrics will grow as she does.

Have to present my Inanna paper on Wednesday. Lucky me, mine will be the first presentation of the term. *rolls eyes* gotta start getting that together. My Larsen paper is due on Friday. Haven't started writing it yet. Keep putting it off. Rob will be thrilled.

Took a nice long nap ths evening and am not the least bit tired. Woke up and sat around with Gemma, Adam, and Jon listening to them talk about LARP. Although it's much too complex for my tastes, I like seeing how they develope their characters. I ws marvelling at how well they all know the characters they play. I'm thinking to myself "shit, I'm a writer and I don't even know half as much stuff about my characters as these guys do!" Whch is bad because a writer is suppose to be able to be so in touch with their characters that someone can ask you anything about them and you can answer. I can't do that.

So much stuff I'm putting off. Need to email Monica, need to call Serena and return the pan I borrowed like a month ago, need to clean my room so I can call facilities and get them to bunk my beds. I wanna have room to dance in here :)

As per usual, nothing exciting going on. Like I said before, doesn't make for very interesting reading but it's fun for me :)

Obligations

I'm taking a break from school related activities at the moment. I just realized how much I have to do tonight. At seven I have to go participate in Audrey Klein's pychology experiment. I have to prepare my Inanna presentation, and I have to start writing my Larsen paper.

I spent the last hour taking notes on "Passing." I think I'm going to focus on how the creation of double-consciouness promotes the need for racial allegiance, but how, at the same time, it becomes so pervasive within the individual psyche that it splits all interactions, even those with others of the same race, in two making the show of allegiance a tenuous one at best. The book explicitly shows that when Clare's presence threatens to disturb Irene's safety, all sense of allegiance melts away. I think it is the very presence of double-consciousness that causes such dissention in the ranks, so to speak.

Hellenga sent out an email today telling everyone to come in tomorrow with a hard question to ask me after my presentation. Eek! 24 hard questions. He's trying to massacre me. Eh, not that I'm worried. If nothing else, MVA trained me to deal with impossible questions and how to bullshit my way through them. Thing is, Hellenga wants me to read my paper aloud, which i think, kills the entire point of an oral presentation. Also, I haven't revised my paper yet and i don't want to embarress myself by reading the first draft which is, admittedly, kinda hard to follow. So, I plan to scrap Hellenga's suggestion and simply present my paper rather then read it. I think I can express the idea of the paper in a clearer and more entertaining way if I summarize.

But that will require a bit of extra work on my part. Gonna have to set up and explain the Wolkstein interpretation that I'm refuting, explain why I don't think it works, and then go through my whole interpretation.

Ugh, it's gonna be a long night :-p