obviously doctor you’ve never been a 13 year old girl
Tomorrow I have an exam on narrative theory. 2 essays, the 2nd of which is pick a question and answer it referring to any prose examples (although i think that’s intended to mean any prose fiction). I have one more article to read and then I think I can just about justify taking a bath and reading the Virgin Suicides. Itunes decided I was going to listen to the Air soundtrack album this evening, and now I need to read the book. It’s been at least a year. (There are books I read at least once a year.) They said any texts, so I can ramble some crap about framing in Frankenstein, free indirect style and stream of consciousness in modernism and I can use examples from VS. Sounds like a plan.
I’m about to graft the toe on my first studying sock. I wanted to knit these as some kind of charm, reminder that I did study and that ‘I can do this’ while in the exam. I’m not planning on staying up all night cramming and knitting away at the second sock, but I might just wear the first. Even a single sock is whole lot of reading, and a whole lot of luck. Isn’t it? Odd socks isn’t really going to bother me, but do you think that would jinx the whole thing, there seem to be too many phrases involving things like starting out on the wrong foot. What to do, what to do.
Posted: May 4th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Comment from rachel
Time: May 4, 2006, 9:31 pm
I wrote my A-Level Media Studies coursework essay on Virgin Suicides (film, not book), we were doing ‘Representation’, so my essay was about the representation of religion in suburban 1970s America. I got 88% (then failed one of the exams, so I only got a C overall!)
Good luck with the exam tomorrow. I may have to dig out my copy of the book now. Oh! Before I go, have you read Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides? If not, I recommend it. Very good.
Comment from wenders
Time: May 4, 2006, 10:09 pm
I adore Middlesex. Best of luck! (And I’d wear one sock…)
Comment from barbara
Time: May 4, 2006, 10:13 pm
good luck!!! i can vaguely remember when i did the equivalent exam over here a long time ago, i think frankenstein also featured heavily in my ramblings ;) oh and sarah kane’s “crave”, but that may have been another exam…
Comment from Jamie
Time: May 5, 2006, 12:40 am
do well tommorow
Comment from Abi
Time: May 5, 2006, 10:14 am
Best of luck. The sock idea is great. At the beginning of Nancy Bush folk socks she talks about all the phrases - pull your socks up being one. Well it sounds like you pulled your socks up and studied hard and will do really well.
Comment from nush
Time: May 5, 2006, 1:07 pm
Good luck! I’m sure wearing an odd sock won’t jinx it. Or if it does, the good luck from it being your study sock will cancell it out.
:) xxx
Comment from alice
Time: May 5, 2006, 1:52 pm
I won’t feel so guilty about knitting socks while I mark UG exams if I know students knit while revising.
good luck with them all!
there is some story about Einstein only ever wearing odd socks, its not a true story but it might help nonetheless… :)
Comment from nush
Time: May 5, 2006, 8:21 pm
I know that there is a story about Eintein going to work in his pajamas… ;)
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