Another one of those Big Things In Sally's Life Updates

[annwfyn]

Today, boys and girls, I'm going to talk about my assessed essay!

I've got to write two of them over the christmas holidays. One is on the process of anglicisation in Northumbria, and the other is on the use of burial data in assessing attitudes towards age and childhood in Anglo-Saxon England. Both have to be 5000 words long, and involve some kind of original thought, re-interpretation of archaeological data and critical interpretation of current data and work.

I've been stressing a fair bit about this. It may possibly have been affecting my moods just a tiny bit. Erm. OK. It has been sitting in my mind like a large and squat demon, croaking and cackling and taunting me with the apparent impossibility of producing original and valid academic re-evaluation.

Today, however, I think I realised that I could do it.

This break through began yesterday, where I finally managed to pick up the last of the books which are on the reading list my supervisor gave me and I realised that I actually can get all the base reading done by the end of the week. Today I looked at my notes - my rough notes for my essay on burial data - and realised that I had hit 3000 words. Those are just my bullet points and scribbles and annotations. I do have enough materiel. I am getting there.

I'm also realising that I can think. I do have critical comments in the margins. I do have things I want to say. I can actually write this essay.

I've been up since 10 am this morning and I've only just taken a break from working. My head is beginning to hurt a bit and so I might possibly need to stop looking at the screen, but I am doing well.

*does her happy dance*

I can do this!

Oh - and while I'm in a good mood - let me share the love! You know the meme going round. Drop me a comment and I'll reminisce about you for a bit. I do actually really rather like everyone on my friends list, so I think I've got some good things to say.

Comments

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

He was WRONG WRONG WRONG. The other thing I thought was that Midsummer was surprisingly pedestrian. They hadn't done anything exciting with it. It was a bunch of people in kinda dull costume going through the play. I suspect that is me being bratty because I've now been involved with two different productions - once as Bottom and once as Puck but never as Titania, damnit, and I do love that play to pieces. I therefore have Views on how it should be.

[melsner.livejournal.com]

I liked that they tried to cast against the stereotype for the parts... Puck was a tired old guy... the "good" couple were the plain people, instead of the hot ones. The Fairy king and queen were bufoonish.

Well, I liked that they attempted something different, anyway... Oberson was a mugging ass. I kind of liked the haggard put upon version of Puck.