I'm studying for my grammar test right now and all the while I keep thinking "what possessed me to take this course? I could have taken a post-colonial and satisfied all my area requirements, but NO!"
I think you can tell how I feel about this course.
Anyways, I'm sitting here, re-typing my handwritten notes into a chart on my computer and it's boring as all hell. Who made up all these rules? I never believed all my ESL friends when they said that English is one of the most confusing languages in the world. It comes so easily to me, especially in speech, that I could never fathom how any language could be easier. Apparently I was wrong. None of the rules that apply to writing the English language make any sense. Each sentence has so many parts, verb phrases and lexical heads and prepositional phrases and all that. Why didn't they teach us grammar in high school? BOOURNS!
Anyways, today I have class from 2:30 to 5:30 and then I write this test at 7. Hopefully I can get home at a decent time tonight so I can work on analyzing a passage from Macbeth. I watched most of Polanski's 1971 film version of the play yesterday in SMIL, and am now thoroughly traumatized. Apparently he made the move right after his wife was murdered by Charles Manson, so I can see why he may have been disturbed as a director. Scary stuff.
What dagger is this?
-Laur
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