Brain Mush

[athersgeo]

• Tidying:
  
  
  
  • Mind Body Spirit
  
  
  • Change duvet from summer to winter
  
  
  • Clear out crap from car
  
  
  • Deal with pile of CDs
  
  
  • Put away laundry and summer skirts/dresses
  
  
  • Put away DVDs
  
  
  • I've also tidied the computer desk and generally tidied the crap up in my bedroom
  
  
  
  


• OU:
  
  
  
  • Attend tutorial Sat
  
  
  • Read through block 1
  
  
  • Revise The Odyssey - I'm now part way through this, but again, I'm finding I know more about it than I thought
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  • Read through block 2 - I'm about half way through this; the main thing that's left now is Peracles' funary speech, but after a couple of hours of swatting up about the Parthanon, I need a bit of a break before I tackle that!
  
  
  • Revise Persians and Lysestrata - I've started working on these and I shall prolly take them with me to work tomorrow
  
  
  • Read through block 4
  
  
  • Revise connected ancient sources
  
  
  
  


• Shopping:
  
  
  
  • Facial wipes
  
  
  • Batteries
  
  
  • Toothpaste
  
  
  • Low cal soup
  
  
  • Riveta
  
  
  • Apple crisps
  
  
  
  


• Writing:
  
  
  
  • A Chinese Adventure chapter 8 - I got about a third of this written last night in a sudden burst; I'm hoping to wrap it up now
  
  
  • A Chinese Adventure chapter 9
  
  
  • What It Takes part 2 - This is now about half done
  
  
  • Find Norse mythology story summary - I'm actually giving NaNo some serious thought, and if I go for it, this'll be the story that I do, given I have it all planned out!
  
  
  
  

The danger of revision is that you get to the point when you think "Yeah, I could answer a question about this" and then, if the subject actually comes up, you end up doing a word vomit on it and not ACTUALLY answering the question the paper poses. And, annoyingly, we have no real way to know what's likely to come up since we're the first year of the course so all we have to go on is the specimen paper.

Oh well. I knew I was going to be a guineapig for the course when I signed up; no sense in moaning about it now!

I think I'm going to give it a little time to digest before I tackle that funary speech - I remember doing that when I did block two back in April and, as I recall, it's not exactly a barrel of laughs...

Comments

[allygatorkin.livejournal.com]

Ahh the epitaphios, such happy uni memories! ;) I can still remember an awful lot of nonsense about the Parthenon thought but thats from A-Level. Did you know you can see its curves on google earth? (that doesn't sound right but as she's a maiden heigh ho..!) Oh I just found the essay I wrote: "Why does the Periclean Epitaphios have so little to say about Democracy?" Fun.

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Ouch! That essay does sound particularly, um, fine...only, y'know, not! Fortunately, I *suspect* that won't be the direction any question on the speech will take. Much more likely is something of the order of "To what extent was Pericles' speech a product of the times?"

Epitaphios Logos - boring people since the 400sBC!

[allygatorkin.livejournal.com]

Such a fine slogan! *with history degree head on* have you read Creon's speech in Antigone, the 'ship of state' one. Not exactly exciting also (are any of them?), but if your question is going to go down the 'product of its time route' it might be useful, maybe.

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

*grins* I didn't mind Pliny's thoughts too much, and Homer's not too bad. It's the bits in between that get to me! As for Creon, I only came across him when I did Medea in my last course. This particular course is extremely limited in what we've studied and it's kind of been a whistle stop tour of the most important bits of the Classical World - so there's probably stuff that you think I ought to have done that I haven't!