Grooooovy...

Oh, my. I downloaded the Virtual Theramin and just spent about fifteen minutes playing with it. It's really quite addictive. Thank you, Kenyon allstus, for allowing me to find another way to waste my time.

Oh, and I wrote myself out of the hole that was my story! Wheeee!! Still need another couple pages, but now I know where to go with them...

Classes for next year

So apparently the course catalogue that Exeter has up now is outdated.

Which means no Cyberculture class.

Which means no Farscape.

Yeah, I'm ticked. Rather a lot.

But Matz sent us the course descriptions for courses that are actually happening next year, and I think I might have picked ut what I'm doing. I wanted to use history for my outside-English class, but it seems like they all last two semesters, so, uh, not so much. But their film classes, which are given through the English department, count as drama over here, so I'm okay.

Anyway, I think we take three classes each semester, plus, the Kenyon seminar. That's how it would work out with the credits, anyway. Something to ask tomorrow at our meeting, I suppose. ;) But yeah, first semester, I guess I'll get my Old Stuff classes out of the way. (We have requirements in the English department that would let me get away without taking anything pre-1700, but I'm realizing that it would be a giant pain the ass to actually do that, 'cause then you have to take a class in every other category, which is harder than it sounds.)

Here's the current idea, subject to much change:

Semester One
- Princes, Peasants and Poets: Literature in the Age of Chaucer (or some course title like that)
- Ghosts, Death and Memory in Renaissance Drama (lots of Shakespeare tragedies (most of which I've suffered through already) and a few histories, with extra Marlowe and a couple more for fun)
- Introduction to Screenwriting (could end up being Digital Art redux, as you have to actually make a movie from a two-minute script you write, but you also write a fifteen-minute script, so...)

Semester Two
- Satire (Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, Brave New World and Hitchiker's Guide :))
- Poetry and Prose of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
- Comedy, Comedians and Romance (film class that counts for drama, I think; Charlie Chaplin, Monty Python's Life of Brian, and When Harry Met Sally--romantic comedy being taken seriously(!))

If it turns out we only get to take two Exeter classes each semester, I'm pretty sure I'll lose the Chaucer and Sylvia Plath classes (much fun as she is, she counts for a credit requirement I'd actually rather take over here (the Jazz Age class from my advisor)).

And now, speaking of classes, it's time for me to actually attempt to get something done for the ones I'm taking now...