N.B.: Bakhtin was a badass.
May. 12th, 2010 05:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
readingredheadI should be doing important things, like reading up on the history of conduct books for my essay on Evelina but instead I'm getting ready to go to the Globe and watch a fabulous production of Midsummer Night's Dream.
I'm also thinking a lot about the fact that I'm going to spend Friday and Saturday turning a piece of fiction that I (co-)wrote into an actual (experimental) film (though when I say I'm going to be doing this, it really means I'm going to do what my film major and co-writer friend tells me to do). It should be completely awesome; we're filming on location throughout London, but the actual acting parts are small-scale enough that Oren and I are actually just playing the characters that we wrote, which for me will be all kinds of amazing. I'm starting to think about how my character would dress, and do her make-up, and wear her hair, and all kinds of stuff (and the best part is that none of these answer are hard for me to figure out...I just know her, y'know?). So while it is distracting me from the essay(s), at least it's doing so in a good way.
Also, I have tickets for two events on May 30 at the Hay Festival of Books but no idea as of yet how I am going to get there and back, since Hay is really small and doesn't have its own train station. There are buses and shuttles and the like but it doesn't seem feasible to go up in the morning and back that night; if I'm going to be spending the money on train fare anyway, I might as well see some of the surrounding countryside. Also it would be a lot easier to get back to, oh, say, Cardiff after the last event finishes at 9PM than it would be to try to get back to London (which would probably be impossible). But this means I need to find accommodation in Cardiff (or wherever), and I have yet to broach this subject to my mom, who would freak if I told her I was considering staying in a hostel on my own. She's already worried that no one wants to go to the Hay Festival with me...silly mother, they speak my language in this country!
Now, I shall file all of this under "things to sort out later" and get ready to go see some Shakespeare.
I'm also thinking a lot about the fact that I'm going to spend Friday and Saturday turning a piece of fiction that I (co-)wrote into an actual (experimental) film (though when I say I'm going to be doing this, it really means I'm going to do what my film major and co-writer friend tells me to do). It should be completely awesome; we're filming on location throughout London, but the actual acting parts are small-scale enough that Oren and I are actually just playing the characters that we wrote, which for me will be all kinds of amazing. I'm starting to think about how my character would dress, and do her make-up, and wear her hair, and all kinds of stuff (and the best part is that none of these answer are hard for me to figure out...I just know her, y'know?). So while it is distracting me from the essay(s), at least it's doing so in a good way.
Also, I have tickets for two events on May 30 at the Hay Festival of Books but no idea as of yet how I am going to get there and back, since Hay is really small and doesn't have its own train station. There are buses and shuttles and the like but it doesn't seem feasible to go up in the morning and back that night; if I'm going to be spending the money on train fare anyway, I might as well see some of the surrounding countryside. Also it would be a lot easier to get back to, oh, say, Cardiff after the last event finishes at 9PM than it would be to try to get back to London (which would probably be impossible). But this means I need to find accommodation in Cardiff (or wherever), and I have yet to broach this subject to my mom, who would freak if I told her I was considering staying in a hostel on my own. She's already worried that no one wants to go to the Hay Festival with me...silly mother, they speak my language in this country!
Now, I shall file all of this under "things to sort out later" and get ready to go see some Shakespeare.
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