*whine whine whine*

[izkariote]

UH.

THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MY ANSWERS FOR THE PHOTO MEME BUT.

I-I'm working on it, seriously...

On other news:

Personal Stuff; Have worked my way back to a-okay, which is lovely beyond words.

Cat Saga; Gouto likes nipping, Ginkitty likes harrassing Gouto. AND I HAVE MET SHINSUKE, MY FELINE COUNTERPART.

Academic Stuff; got a 25-page paper due for my grad studies tutorial class. Not sure if I mentioned it online, but I know my RL friends are aware of this since I keep whining about it. Got all the sources, and I've been working through the books I borrowed, but I'm starting to realize that I have absolutely no drive to do the paper. I could pin it on simple laziness, but on another end, it might be because I feel like I'm researching for nothing?

Let's quantify that. Since I'm an MA student, I'm expected to work towards some sort of specialization. I've been given the space to do papers that reflect my areas of interest in my other classes, but it does not seem possible for me to do that now. Hence, I'm stuck researching on drama (not my favorite thing, at least on a critical level) and performing a textual analysis using theories that, while I'm familiar with, aren't the ones I'm out to use in the future.

It's always good to read outside of your comfort zone, but given my time constraints and the stuff I'm pulling outside of scholarly work, I feel as though I'm just punishing myself for something whose benefits will only really come out later, if there are any benefits to be had at all.

(I could also be needlessly arrogant about this whole thing. In actuality, I could easily defer the submission of the paper for next semester with absolutely no loss to me, but I abhor the idea of having an incomplete mark on my record.)

I've considered writing up a new bibliography and a paper proposal for an idea I've been tossing around in my head for some time. I'm not sure how it'll float with this professor (she's cool, but very much a member of "the old guard", to quote unsymbolic), but I might as well try, right? If I manage to convince her, I'll have a much easier time.


Phoenix Wright; Just.

Um.

This game series?

It's eaten me alive.

Comments

[khursten.livejournal.com]

You're up early.

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

I had mass that day!

[tasogareika.livejournal.com]

I HAVE NO REGRETS.

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

NATURALLY, YOU WOULDN'T.

[tasogareika.livejournal.com]

|D

[amandes.livejournal.com]

D: I can't help you about your paper woes, except to say, wouldn't your professor judge your proposal on its own merit, rather than on her perception of its medium?

In any case, goodluck on the paper &heart;

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

She will! She's just... one of the sharper, more meticulous professors in our department. Which might be why I'm worried, beyond the fact that her training's very classical. orz

[amandes.livejournal.com]

Ganbare, Pam~ YOU CAN DO IT. BELIEVE IN ME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU. ♥

[kye-kestrel.livejournal.com]

Might as well try, yeah. I mean, rather that just plodding on with the one you have now?

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

Yes, this exactly. Because I can feel myself struggling when I'm not supposed to be struggling, given the fact that this should be right up my alley.

:D

[thelovemafia.livejournal.com]

Give it a try. It is a very thankless job pushing oneself through something one has no more drive to do, if you can convince your professor that would be great!

Also omg Phoenix Wright if you want to talk about it I am all ears. *grin grin* HEE. I have never played it, but I like listening to intelligent people I like talk about it.

:3

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

Hnnnnnnnngggggh inorite? Something tells me, though, that if I didn't have all this teacher stuff to attend to, I would've been able to do my original paper proposal without problems!

AND AAAAAAA PHOENIX WRIGHT WHERE DO I BEGIN--

Which reminds me. Where can I get a hold of you outside of LJ? owo

[unsymbolic.livejournal.com]

I think it would be well worth the trouble to at least try and offer a revised paper proposal more in keeping with your interests. In my experience, even faculty who kind of 'look at you funny' for wanting to write on a particular "low culture" topic tend not to say no outright, even if they are quite skeptical.

Alternately, I would imagine that there must be ways that you could spin on the current topic to make it more interesting than you feel it is at present. I'm not sure what specifically you're writing on at the moment (the genre of drama writ large? particular texts? performance theory?) but I have to think that there are ways you could inject new life into it through reading new theoretical material.

(There's stuff I might recommend, but it seems like so much is not available in your library there, which is quite frustrating. Let me know if you want any source suggestions for anything in particular though!)

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

Un! I'm banking on the fact that I've managed to submit three or four papers about very contemporary and pop culture-y topics before, and I've gotten very good grades on them. So, in essence, the majority of the faculty know that I'm capable of pulling something like this off...

The current topic I'm doing is an a survey of the idea of revenge and how it has changed across five different periods of drama and theater. The main problems I have now are locating three more good revenge plays, and finding a theories that will back up my claim that revenge no longer possesses the same - how do I put it - complexity? That it had prior to the Renaissance.

[hamster-friend.livejournal.com]

I could easily defer the submission of the paper for next semester with absolutely no loss to me, but I abhor the idea of having an incomplete mark on my record.)

Do remember the two-weeks-after-the-class-and-the-Inc-goes-F rule though. Do they apply that to grad studies? u_u

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

It doesn't apply to grad students~