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[minervasolo]

Heheh. Neil Gaiman versus Margaret Atwood. (and Neil's reaction)

In other news, I really will be reading today. No, honest. Not hitting refresh on Skyehawke repeatedly in the hope that I can update Greenhelm, or adding more to the vampire thing I started last night, or praying yet again that my package has arrived. Or making grumpy noises at my body for deciding to act like every other girl's after years of mutually beneficial ignoring of each other. Or watching Look Around You, which we taped last night.

Or going to lectures... Oh, right. ttfn.

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[toasty-renfield.livejournal.com]

We have LAU? Yay! Can I come and play?

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually checked the tape yet, but if you want to drop by later on feel free (though this really isn't conducive to getting any reading done). Cleanr ought to be round soon, so no point dashing over immediately. We also have Cowboy Bebop and Shaun of the Dead now, too.

[toasty-renfield.livejournal.com]

Wo0t! I have a lecture at 1.15 anyway so now's probably out of the question. Okay if I run along after?

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

sure (not that you'll get this til you get back anayway!)

[ewacat.livejournal.com]

Oh, lectures. Yay. I just came back from one. We discussed possible worlds in which Michael Howard ate gerbils. It was... educational.

Also, Neil Gaiman? <3. Always needs saying.

*Continues commenty thread thing from ladyjaida's LJ*

I'm in Alcuin. :D Whereabouts are you?

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Alcuin too! Block H. I know a few other people doing English and Philosophy too.

[ewacat.livejournal.com]

Oooh. I'm Block J2. We have fairy lights in our window - and Brad Pitt too now. Safer not to ask. :D

After the gerbils, I may be dropping the Philosophy bit. :|

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

I know quite a few people who seem to feel the same way, but I was under the impression that this far into the term you couldn't. Though it's not as though we've done any assessed work in straight English yet.

[ewacat.livejournal.com]

Well, I was told you could change any time before second year. I want to finish this term anyway - I'm enjoying it, I just prefer (and am probably better at) English. Which module(s) are you taking?

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Currently doing Victorian. I can't actually remember what I'm doing after that, though I guess I won't know properly anyway until they tell us if we've got our first or second choices. Imagined Worlds was my first choice special period module, I think, and I think I had High Medieval and twentieth century literatures not from America or England, though i can't remember my other band at all.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

you coming?

[ewacat.livejournal.com]

Ahh yeah, you have more choices. All I know is that I'm doing the Romantics next term (I would have done Medieval, but I know less about the Romantics, and I was having a bad brain-usage day). Imagined Worlds is one of the ton I want to do - I get giddy looking at the list of English modules in a way I don't when I look at the Philosophy ones. Hmph.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

I'm always torn with the English modules as to whether to go for the one that will be completely and untterly knew to me, or those that I know enough about already to know I'm interested in. Imagined worlds just seemed perfect for a SciFi/Fantasy fan, so that was a given, though my second choice was Gawain to John Wayne, which hinted that some films I like might be shown as part of the course. It's just irritating that they make us Straight English students decide most of these by the beginning of this term. It's a system that assumes you'll be precisely the same person in two years time. At least joint honour students don't have to make up their minds quite so soon, and don't have to do the language module if they don't want to!

[ewacat.livejournal.com]

See, I'm with you about the Imagined Worlds. It's perfect. I also wanted to do the Dante, but I have issues with my interests and my skills - like I'm good at studying English, but I'm only interested in Philosophy, and as much as I enjoy it studying something you're just interested in isn't the best thing to do. So with the Dante.

And we got a Philosophy handbook last week. It is the Handbook of Doom. It asks us to choose the modules we want to do in every term up to Summer '06, and then until Spring '07. I'm not a happy bunny about it. I look at the list with dread. Not a good sign. :(

And I would so have leapt at the Anglo-Saxon language module! I tell people how sad I am I can't do it without swamping myself beyond belief, and they get a look on their face of the o.O;;; variety, as if only mad people would want to do it.

Which is kind of accurate. ¬_¬

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

I went for the Latin module, because i've always been terrible at modern languages, and it looked like there was a faint chance I might actually have done some poems at GCSE which could be in the module. Of course, it's going to have been years since I last took latin when I take it up again.

I tried reading a translation of Dante. Got through Inferno quite happily, but I gave up half way through Purgatory out of boredom, I suppose. I might skip to Paradiso next time I pick the book up. I was half tempted to do Dante in Italians as the foreign module and Dante in English as one of the period modules, though I figured they probably wouldn't let me get away with that!

I know what you mean about interests and skill. I'd be fascinated doing history, but I've never had the knack for history essays. Of course, there's a lot of History in the English course, which helps. If only one knew what to do with an English degree afterwards, eh?

[ewacat.livejournal.com]

I miss Latin. It was such fun. But that may have been because we had a small class and a fun teacher who was a devout Christian and who wasn't above making jokes about Jesus in Latin and letting us translate them for homework. :D

Inferno is wonderful. Purgatory is exactly what it says it is. Paradiso isn't exactly thrill-a-minute either. I would say a word about sequels here and about leaving the original alone, but that would be extremely silly of me. *Is shifty*

Actually that's one of the reasons why I enjoy English so much - you may be studying literature and language, but there's so much history, psychology, philosophy and sociology and so on involved in it! I used to be so annoyed that I had to study less and less subjects as I grew up. I wanted to be an archaeologist who flew in the Red Arrows, taught Physics and wrote big-ass novels, when I was younger. Now I just want to do the novels, but still!

My father says English degree --> journalism and/or a doctorate (*INSERT DEAD ME HERE*). My mother says English degree --> columnist. My sister says English degree --> go to pub, get drunk, buy pub. I like her idea. :-\

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

I like your sister's idea too! I'll probably end up teaching or in publishing (I figure it's an easy way to sneak manuscripts in!), since I could never easily write x number of words on demand every day/week/month. Makes essays an interesting task...

If you're into writing, you should come along to York Writers. It's great fun, and very chilled out most of the time. I'm hooked on the writing games.

[ewacat.livejournal.com]

Ahm. Essays. Yes. I have an interesting history where those are concerned. Deadlines? Ehh. Without the last minute I'd get nothing done. XD

Writing games? Sounds good. Where/when is it?

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

mondays it's langwith bar, 7:30, fridays 8 in Goodricke GCR. It's great fun, and you don't have to actually bring anything to read out. Some people haven't for years!

[ewacat.livejournal.com]

I think I might go to a couple of the monday ones, if the flat's not being social. Might get me writing properly for once. XD

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Feel free to turn up whenever. Be good to see you!