Sep. 13th, 2011

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One of my professors was sneaky and left half the readings off the course description - we're also doing Shakespeare's Sonnets, Paradise Lost, Ariel, something by the Canadian Ross McDonald, and Stephen King's 1408 and On Writing. Plath, King, non-Carson Canadian lit = normally all deal-breakers, but too late. Anyway the other available courses all had worse problems.

I'm probably also going to be reading Yeats, to present on him - we choose from a list of 15 authors, all British or Canadian with the half-exception of Eliot. Portrait was my first choice but someone else in the class announced his primary interest was Joyce when we did introductions. Which is fair enough, and I do love much of Yeats.

They say the MAs here take five classes per term, so upward of 50 books plus whatever they have to read for TAing, presumably 5 or 10 more. I don't remember quite what my intake level was at 22-25, but that sounds insane, a recipe for skipping half and skimming the rest. I wonder what the intention behind all that is.
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I'm having trouble thinking of a better song than Pumped Up Kicks. I mean, obviously I know Albinoni's Adagio is better, that kind of thing, but among songs. And I don't mean the lyrics, about which I rarely care, and in this case don't really understand.

Maybe I'll burn out on it soon. But that bass - damn.

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