delga | { this is [no longer] hell, nor am I in it. }

HA. HA HA. HA.

So, it took about six hours (and many, MANY days), but my 3,000 words on Shelley's A Defence of Poetry? So nailed. I'm going to finish the bibliography and the references tomorrow morning (they're basically done, actually, I just need to put in the full citations). I feel much better now, natch.

I fucking love Metric. So brilliant. (And KEXP has The Editors doing a live session! Fabulous!)

This upcoming week is Reading Week which means I have time to catch up on some of the books that I've got stacked and waiting. It also means I can actually do my dissertation research, and start writing the first half-draft which is due in December.

The craziest part of this week is my assignment for Experiments in Writing. We have to re-write a popular myth or folktale (you can't buy this kind of irony; it's just too good) but we have to do it using a collage method. Which is to say, none of it can be my own writing; I have to piece the text together using other people's texts and 'found' text (i.e. text that I see everyday, like on cereal boxes or street signs). !!! I'm tempted to write the myth of Hades and Persephone again, using only Sylvia Plath's collection Ariel, because the idea of using the woman who wrote Lady Lazarus as the basis for the origins/coronation of the Queen of the Underworld is almost too ironic and fabulous. So, yeah.

UGH. I'm so going to sleep now. I'm too softcore for this late-night stuff.