what are you gonna do when you stop crying

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You know, you mention to your friends that you may have a slight crush on a TV personality, and suddenly you find yourself implicated in plans to kidnap said TV personality and do - how did R word it? - wrong things to said personality. It occurs to me that sanity is quite thin on the ground in my house. Also that I didn't have this problem when I was geeking out over QI - no one ever accused me of wanting to kidnap Stephen Fry.

(Still: HEE, I'm going to see Frankie Boyle live in December!)

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My dissertation has taken another turn, but this time I think it will stay, for the simple reason that what I've proposed this time fits thematically with what I've been doing so far at university (for, obviously, continuity is important as an undergraduate and there's no sense in branching out or trying something new. Right.) So, the current proposal: Escape and the engagement situation in post-modern literature. Which also has the advantage of being tangentially related to my submitted title by way of fairytales.

Speaking of the future and academia, I've been reading Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader. It's a collection of essays, and as with all Virginia Woolf's writing, I am filled with envy and awe when I read it. She is so damn smart and persuasive and elegant. Furthermore her writing is filled with a justification of its own existence - everything she writes, it seems, defends why literature is an art, why it's important. And her essays are helping, really, making me feel like maybe I've got something worthwhile going here, that perhaps I can do something worthwhile with my degree.

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Also, I've actually been doing some writing. One finished story, one at 2,000 words and holding and, uh, a Narnia fic that I wasn't going to write currently holding at 700 words. And an essay on reading. I'm particularly geared up about the essay, because it's easy going, fun to write and think about. I'm not sure it's the most useful of my writing projects, but it may yet be the most exciting.

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DOCTOR WHO TOMORROW!

Comments

[lattara.livejournal.com]

Have I mentioned that I like your house? Because I surely do. :)

I think I'm going to look that Virginia Woolf up when I get to London; it sounds like it's just my thing.

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

My house is crazy! Well, not really my house; it's just me, R, J and Gemma left now. But they gang up on me, and it's not fair. Just because I made them watch Mock the Week, 8 out of 10 cats and Would I Lie to You?. PSH!

It truly is lovely. It's a series of - I think - three books, all about reading without an academic background.

[lattara.livejournal.com]

I hate to say this, but... they may have been right to do it. WOMAN! WHAT IS HAPPENING TO YOU?

(Psst: did Gemma move in? Because I remember her being busy packing but now exactly why...)

Oh, that sounds truly awesome. Now I really have to look them up.

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

It's not my faukt! They tempted me with political satire! Anyway, Gem introduced me to Mock the Week. And it's not really a crush.

(No, sadly. She's just living here until her house becomes habitable)

It's Virginia Woolf. Of course it's awesome!