...and SCENE!

i did it. it is done! edited and submitted my final paper for the semester last night. WOOT.

it's amazing how de-stressing having everything done can be. now it's just on to the presents, packing, cleaning, baking....SIGH

LUNA-cy and papering

it's a lunar eclipse tonight AND a full moon AND winter solstice! whee!

i'm just 4 pages away from officially closing my fall semester this year. most likely will finish tomorrow (if/when my proofreader gets back to me).  then i get a WHOLE MONTH of reading what i want. when i want to. how am i ever to decided??? i have at least 2 books as well as a list of authors lined up--all within the general category of asia-pacific: like miyuki miyabe and kobo abe, kim young-ha, duong thu huong, etc.

any suggestions of SPECIFICALLY sci-fi/fantasy novels i should read???? since apparently, i am finding it too challenging to think outside my field...not that it's necessarily a bad thing just, you know...odd. for me.

see? told ya so....

oh, the tail-end of the semester. a mixed bag of feelings and emotions...and feeling like you're on the verge of an emotional breakdown.  finding new and creative ways to procrastinate. all my in class presentations are done. one out of 2 papers are done. the other has a snazzy title (OUTspoken: A Thematic Literary Analysis of Murakami Ryu's Piercing and Kirino Natsuo's Out) 

have i mentioned how much i *love* coming up with snazzy titles???

anywho...it's got a title and i've even outlined it. and that's as far as i've gotten. it was originally due this weekend, but R-sensei pushed it back to the 23rd. great. just what a motivation-ally-impaired person needs, a teacher induced procrastinational tool

coming soon.....

...to a blog near you:

A REAL UPDATE!!!

(i swear, once the semester ends)

proposed topic

so, assuming it gets "approved" (a.k.a. a better grade than my first paper proposal), here is a brief summary of what i will be writing a paper on for ONE of my classes this semester....

Rebel, Rebel: Soushoku Danshi (“Herbivore Boys”), Makeinu (“Losing Dogs”), and the Queering of “Traditional” Gender Roles in Japan

easy week

no class on tuesday. and tonight's readings were about gender, korean drama (like winter sonata!) and other forms of popular culture.

i love it when school feels like FUN

so busy i forgot to update

that about sums it up. this year is totally kicking my ass. between reading approx. 200 pages *per class, per week* and working and trying to not stress out too much, i have neglected posting. meh. no big whoop. not as if i have a cult following.

since my last update the dreaded class has gotten better. still fucking annoying and imperfect but at least, better. literature is still going well. we have a mid-term type paper due that we will get info about in class tonight (i think). does anyone else find it odd for a grad-level class to have a midterm-thingy? for the other class, we had to submit a tentative title for our FINAL PAPER last week. mine will have to do with people challenging traditional gender norms in japan...surprise!

anyways, that's about it right now. still haven't figure out how i'm going to fulfill my final 3rd of the language requirement. or when i'm supposed to have time to explore/apply for further schooling options. SIGH.