To do, to do, to do...
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icepixieMy Modernism prof loved my formal paper proposal, so that's good. She recommended a section of another book for me to read, this one on Unanimism in Woolf's writing, which is also good, as it sounds terribly helpful, although at the moment the thought of adding anything else to my gargantuan bibliography kind of makes me hyperventilate. I just hope she doesn't expect me to have it all read by the time we meet on Thursday, 'cause that won't happen.
I got the impression that my thesis chair is okay with me not making any more changes to my thesis unless I want to/have time, so that's pretty amazing. I do want to fix the opening, the first two paragraphs of which he says could be clarified (and I agree), but at least I don't have to do it before the defense. As long as I can get it done to my satisfaction by 4/23, it's all good.
I am all but done with typing up my oral exam review! I have, um, 54 single-spaced pages full of bullet points about pretty much the entire Western canon. I lack only some stuff on Oronooko, The Scarlet Letter, My Antonia, Midnight's Children, Waiting for Godot, and a couple Stoppard plays. I do need to go back over my underlinings in Antonia and Gatsby (although the Gatsby one are from junior year of high school, so who knows how helpful they'll be...but anyway). My study group and I are going to have our own mock exams on Saturday and Monday, which should be nerves-calming. Maybe. I'm also going to track down my entire committee and make them aware of what I actually want to talk about in this thing. (To wit: BRITISH MODERNISM. And when we can't talk about that, British and American Romanticism, British Victorianism, twentieth-century American drama, American poetry from Whitman to the present, and perhaps the postmodern novel, plus some Shakespearean histories and maybe some Beowulf if we must. I could probably do a brief section of the eighteenth-century novel if I had to, but if they give me a question on the seventeenth century I'm going to cry. If they ask me about the medievals I'll probably still cry, but not as hard. Actually, if we could just clear off pretty much everything before 1800, I'd be okay with that...)
I hear through thegrapevine internets that Castle got 3.6 in the ratings last night, beating a first-run episode of CSI: Miami. WOOT! And given the ending, I'm guessing a bunch of those new people will be tuning back in next week... :D
I got the impression that my thesis chair is okay with me not making any more changes to my thesis unless I want to/have time, so that's pretty amazing. I do want to fix the opening, the first two paragraphs of which he says could be clarified (and I agree), but at least I don't have to do it before the defense. As long as I can get it done to my satisfaction by 4/23, it's all good.
I am all but done with typing up my oral exam review! I have, um, 54 single-spaced pages full of bullet points about pretty much the entire Western canon. I lack only some stuff on Oronooko, The Scarlet Letter, My Antonia, Midnight's Children, Waiting for Godot, and a couple Stoppard plays. I do need to go back over my underlinings in Antonia and Gatsby (although the Gatsby one are from junior year of high school, so who knows how helpful they'll be...but anyway). My study group and I are going to have our own mock exams on Saturday and Monday, which should be nerves-calming. Maybe. I'm also going to track down my entire committee and make them aware of what I actually want to talk about in this thing. (To wit: BRITISH MODERNISM. And when we can't talk about that, British and American Romanticism, British Victorianism, twentieth-century American drama, American poetry from Whitman to the present, and perhaps the postmodern novel, plus some Shakespearean histories and maybe some Beowulf if we must. I could probably do a brief section of the eighteenth-century novel if I had to, but if they give me a question on the seventeenth century I'm going to cry. If they ask me about the medievals I'll probably still cry, but not as hard. Actually, if we could just clear off pretty much everything before 1800, I'd be okay with that...)
I hear through the
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Date: 2010-03-24 01:29 am (UTC)