And people keep coming into the lounge like they have a reason to be here, see me, and say "Oh...I'll leave you to it." it's happened twice. =/ I must be filling the room with so much stress and negative energy atm.

Quote from: Caseyyy on December 19, 2011, 04:10:12 PM
3:00. Paper due at midnight. Supposed to be 20 pages. Only have 6. Hate everything. THERE'S NOT ENOUGH WORTH SAYING TO MAKE 20 PAGES!

Either, pick some small and petty point to look over every angle of.
Or, put some obstacle in the way that you need to solve.

I'm inevitably going to have to ramble...I actually could go on and on about how the androgynous character has been taken and forced into a binary in almost every piece of fan fiction made about her. I can see that adding...oh, 6 pages, bringing me to 12. I'm hoping 18 will be sufficient.

What sort of thing is it supposed to be.

It's for a media studies course...I opted to look at a lesbian (but more likely androgyne) character from an anime. And the fan representations of her. I've discussed the whole "fans living vicariously through their interpretations" angle, almost done the "creating a gendered performance" angle, as well as the discussion of whether or not fans should be appropriating an original work or not.

It's pathetic really...I know that grad school is mostly comprised of those of us who procrastinated, skipped class, yet still managed to pull of A's (learned it wasn't just me when I talked with 'colleagues') but I don't know why I put myself in these situations in the first place.

Take a tiny, specific element of the character - depictions of clothing, hairstyle, use of questions in their speech and be relentless - always good for a few pages.

Hmm. That's actually a very good idea. I could go into graphic detail about her body language in the fan drawings because they almost always present her as being really 'masculine.'

I may have to get into a discussion about what I mean when I say 'masculine' and 'feminine' because the way I've written everything makes it sound like I'm all into the gender binary. That should help too.

Y the last man: fascinating.

A co worker messaged me, from what I know of current politics in the workplace, perhaps I should not be her friend. We'll see what this is about.

 can you re rail a derailed  donkey with an ass-jack.
As to an alternative to sir you could suggest " your supreme galactic overlord  "  say that with a straight face.

Quote from: foosnark on December 19, 2011, 10:38:32 AM
It's like derailing a submarine.  Or a donkey.  Or a scuba-diving donkey.

5 months for me tomorrow.  I think the main thing that has changed for me is, it's all so much less important.  Less important that I nail things down.  Less important that I express my gender outwardly.  Less annoying that people are call me sir and I don't correct them because I have no alternative to offer.  Less important that so many forms require me to choose one of two wrong choices.

I don't know how people do it. The thought of going back to school freaks me out. Just reading what Caseyy (hope you don't mind me adopting the double y spelling for your name) wrote makes me want to give up.

  I am overwhelmed with jealousy at the sight of cameltoe

Quote from: nickikim on December 19, 2011, 08:49:59 PM
I am overwhelmed with jealousy at the sight of cameltoe

I know how you feel.

I am hungry.

Oh, don't take my experiences are gospel espo. I hated this class and to be honest, I procrastinated because I was fearful of taking on the paper. If I had given myself a proper amount of time and done the right research this stress would be non-existent.

Have you done an Existentialist analysis of it, that should be good for a few pages, and allow a few obscure references to Satre's ' War Diaries' or similar.   Or, seeing it's a Japanese artform, references to Buddhist thought.  That should totally confuse your lecturer!

I've rushed a lot of essays at the last minute and have learnt the key to a good essay is to be a bulldog, find something very concrete and small, then don't let go of it. Shake it about but don't let it go. The more concrete the better.

I once wrote an essay where I explained the meaning of a (very vague and nebulous) short story using only the images of the sky. (This is it http://akirarabelais.com/v/brunoschulz/cinnamonshops.html ). Another time I took one sentence from a book that professed a theory of tragedy and applied it to six other things to prove that the theory fit anything and was so too vague and nebulous to be of use to anyone.

With stories also, always dive into the most specific and concrete details you can, people can extrapolate their own vague generalities.

Sleep evades me. But I have set a trap for it...

I'm almost done. I'll definitely be finished before noon...15 pages now. Sucks to hand it in a bit late, but at least it's OVER. Next term I'm not taking classes like this one, just interesting ones. Yes. Finishing up the section on gender, then to add the introduction and conclusion, do some reorganizing.

As an aside, it's been way too long since I've had sex.

Supreme Galactic Overlord is a lot of responsibility.  I don't even want to manage a small team of software developers.  I'd rather just play.