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beccaelizabethI saw a wol on the bus! Erm, Owl. Yes. I can type it the right way around even if I never can say it without slowing right down.
I see magpies often and often, but today there was a lovely big owl sitting on a tree that turned its head right around to watch the bus go past. Win!
Also I had chocolate biscuits. So I has much happy.
I started today not happy at all, grumpy, feeling ill, and with a red bill from college to sort out. Blah.
The red bill was duly sorted, I found out stuff I really should have noticed earlier and fixed a thing that would otherwise cost Much Money. College charges for 1/6 of a part time degree every year, no matter how many units you're studying. reckon it's more fair. And if you take longer than 6 years to actually study it, well, it's all paid already, no worries. So far so good. But the college computer system doesn't talk to itself real well, so the 10 credits I did at the UEA and applied to my CCN degree, which I'd already made sure the computer knows I'm not doing, the finance computer doesn't know I'm *never* doing, so they were still going to bill me for 360 credits total. Now the nice person in the office, after me and my tutor talked to her, has written it down that I'm only doing 350 total at City College. I'll still pay the same amount, up until my last year, when they will take off those last 10 credits. This works out financially better for me, because the cost goes up every year anyways.
... it has not escaped my attention that the course was sold to me partly on the basis that I could quit at any time, take my credits and go home or go elsewhere or get a smaller certificate, yet the finance happily takes the full amount, potentially in advance. I think if I've paid for half the course already (I've paid three years) but only studied... 160 credits? I've paid for 20 credits more than I'm doing. Which doesn't sound much, but at my current rate of progress, I've already paid for a whole semester next year. Half a year ahead.
... my current rate of progress is kind of rubbish.
Then there was a lesson on Renaissance sonnet sequences.
The Teacher is very enthusiastic on reading things aloud. She had a bit of a speech about it in class today. And then she got various people to read out and help act out assorted songs and sonnets.
Which is all very well, but I understand out-loud stuff once I've written it down. Okay, oversimplified, but. Writing good, hearing not very useful relatively speaking.
So in lessons I listen, I type, and I come home with lots of pages of notes to skim at my leisure. That works.
But trying to do close reading of poems at the speed the teacher is rattling through them all, out loud, using skills we learned in Intro Lit 2 which was for some students 1 year ago but for me 2 years... this I am not doing so very well.
Also, sonnets do nothing for me. And neither does misogyny and patriarchy and being bloody idiots, oddly enough, so these particular sonnets are frequently... irritating.
But I'm loving the context reading, the lives of the poets and the history of the Renaissance and the stuff about Humanism and Neo Platonism and all the pictures and Machiavelli and Ovid and, well, everything except the sonnets.
So I'm loving studying, but it's entirely possible at this point that I'm going to utterly bork the exam, which involves close reading sonnets and would require me to at the very least re-read my Intro Lit 2 notes, which I've been meaning to do for a month now.
... but reading new stuff about all the royalty and gossip and who married who and everything is always so much more interesting!
And I borrowed another Ovid book, this one the Erotic Poems. Teach read out a bit in class, and the dude was not subtle. This should be fun.
... also, I kind of want to take it to the Hub, on the offchance I could get certain persons to read bits out...
... don't know yet, have only heard that one section...
... also, everyone there is Torchwood geeks, but that doesn't mean they're classical poetry geeks. Is possibly not a great plan.
I need something to keep my attention on poetry. Imagining it in a Welsh accent may well help. Or American. Certain Americans. Or... well, anyways, voices.
... I guess I can see Teacher's point about 'aloud'.
Thursday we will be studying Shakespeare sonnets, which will be fun. Also Mary Wroth, the one woman on this bit of the course. So far the crit essay we're referring back to doesn't help specifically with reading those ones because it was pre-feminism so hadn't heard of her.
... yes, got to love those up to the minute sources in English Lit.
I see magpies often and often, but today there was a lovely big owl sitting on a tree that turned its head right around to watch the bus go past. Win!
Also I had chocolate biscuits. So I has much happy.
I started today not happy at all, grumpy, feeling ill, and with a red bill from college to sort out. Blah.
The red bill was duly sorted, I found out stuff I really should have noticed earlier and fixed a thing that would otherwise cost Much Money. College charges for 1/6 of a part time degree every year, no matter how many units you're studying. reckon it's more fair. And if you take longer than 6 years to actually study it, well, it's all paid already, no worries. So far so good. But the college computer system doesn't talk to itself real well, so the 10 credits I did at the UEA and applied to my CCN degree, which I'd already made sure the computer knows I'm not doing, the finance computer doesn't know I'm *never* doing, so they were still going to bill me for 360 credits total. Now the nice person in the office, after me and my tutor talked to her, has written it down that I'm only doing 350 total at City College. I'll still pay the same amount, up until my last year, when they will take off those last 10 credits. This works out financially better for me, because the cost goes up every year anyways.
... it has not escaped my attention that the course was sold to me partly on the basis that I could quit at any time, take my credits and go home or go elsewhere or get a smaller certificate, yet the finance happily takes the full amount, potentially in advance. I think if I've paid for half the course already (I've paid three years) but only studied... 160 credits? I've paid for 20 credits more than I'm doing. Which doesn't sound much, but at my current rate of progress, I've already paid for a whole semester next year. Half a year ahead.
... my current rate of progress is kind of rubbish.
Then there was a lesson on Renaissance sonnet sequences.
The Teacher is very enthusiastic on reading things aloud. She had a bit of a speech about it in class today. And then she got various people to read out and help act out assorted songs and sonnets.
Which is all very well, but I understand out-loud stuff once I've written it down. Okay, oversimplified, but. Writing good, hearing not very useful relatively speaking.
So in lessons I listen, I type, and I come home with lots of pages of notes to skim at my leisure. That works.
But trying to do close reading of poems at the speed the teacher is rattling through them all, out loud, using skills we learned in Intro Lit 2 which was for some students 1 year ago but for me 2 years... this I am not doing so very well.
Also, sonnets do nothing for me. And neither does misogyny and patriarchy and being bloody idiots, oddly enough, so these particular sonnets are frequently... irritating.
But I'm loving the context reading, the lives of the poets and the history of the Renaissance and the stuff about Humanism and Neo Platonism and all the pictures and Machiavelli and Ovid and, well, everything except the sonnets.
So I'm loving studying, but it's entirely possible at this point that I'm going to utterly bork the exam, which involves close reading sonnets and would require me to at the very least re-read my Intro Lit 2 notes, which I've been meaning to do for a month now.
... but reading new stuff about all the royalty and gossip and who married who and everything is always so much more interesting!
And I borrowed another Ovid book, this one the Erotic Poems. Teach read out a bit in class, and the dude was not subtle. This should be fun.
... also, I kind of want to take it to the Hub, on the offchance I could get certain persons to read bits out...
... don't know yet, have only heard that one section...
... also, everyone there is Torchwood geeks, but that doesn't mean they're classical poetry geeks. Is possibly not a great plan.
I need something to keep my attention on poetry. Imagining it in a Welsh accent may well help. Or American. Certain Americans. Or... well, anyways, voices.
... I guess I can see Teacher's point about 'aloud'.
Thursday we will be studying Shakespeare sonnets, which will be fun. Also Mary Wroth, the one woman on this bit of the course. So far the crit essay we're referring back to doesn't help specifically with reading those ones because it was pre-feminism so hadn't heard of her.
... yes, got to love those up to the minute sources in English Lit.