{ I let it carry me away because I'm not staying in this place. }

[delga]

I totally finished that myth rewrite and - if I do say so myself - kicked ass in class. It helps that unbeknownst to the tutor we were actually discussing not only my dissertation topic but my area of relative expertise.

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One of the folktales that someone in class rewrote was The Girl Without Hands which was excellent. She'd taken all her found-text from an art crit. journal. I obviously need to get up to scratch on my Grimm knowledge, because I didn't know the original. Actually, all of the rewrites that were presented in class today were excellent. People did a great job with the assignment, and the end results were not only well-written, interesting and funny, but they were so wonderfully post-modern. The texts became commentaries on our lives, and our history. It was such a brilliant class.

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Speaking of dissertations, I tried taking notes from Winterson's Weight and freaked out over how AWESOME this book is when I reached the SECOND PAGE. Needless to say, the notes ended, and the reading continued. BUT SERIOUSLY:

The free man never thinks of escape.

      In the beginning there was nothing. Not even space and time. You could have thrown the universe at me and I would have caught it in one hand. There was no universe. It was easy to bear.

      This happy nothing ended fifteen aeons ago. It was a strange time, and what I know was told to me in radioactive whispers; that's all there is left of one great shout into the silence.

! The introduction is full of lines like Your first parent was a star and Planet Earth, that wanted life so badly, she got it. It's so epic. Winterson is the storyteller of the best kind - she takes from all stories, and her stories are all ours.

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Ah, yeah, my foot. It hurts a lot less than it did yesterday; in fact, it only really hurts when I stand on it in certain ways. I think it's bruised now. Except: it's still badly swollen. Again, not as bad as yesterday, but bad enough. I don't know what to do to get the swelling to go down. Any tips?

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I can't be arsed with Spooks tonight. I'm too tired! But no doubt The Flatmate will drag me to watch it.