*sigh* Me and my planning skills

[sietske]

Why do I always leave these things until the last minute?

Spent my day off cramming my way through all 500 pages of Oscar and Lucinda. Enjoyable read, next time I shall take the time to enjoy it. Then composed a first draft of summary and review, and will now, at 1:30 a.m., be typing this up into something remotely resembling a coherent 700 words

Comments

[c4c]

Peter Carey is wonderful. :-)

I use the same study/report writing strategy. I once wrote an assignment two weeks after it was due and somehow managed to get perfect marks on it. Mind you, it was only Year 10 English.

[sietske]

I did feel rather taken in by the feeling that I, somehow, should have remembered that Marian Evans was the real name of George Eliot, among other things :-) I was forced to put this down to an insufficient background in Eng Lit.

[c4c]

I would imagine your background in Eng Lit is considerably better than an awful lot of native English speakers, myself included. I don't know about other countries but in Australia at least I don't think there's enough taught in school. We only barely touched on Shakespeare and only read two novels and one play in the entire senior year. To make things worse, the teachers often don't know what they're talking about anyway and they ruin literature for students. I think the only reason my Year 12 English teacher didn't kill Pride & Prejudice for me the way she did for the rest of the class was because I'd already read it and consequently felt no need to pay any attention to her lessons whatsoever. :-)

[sietske]

Sounds about as versed as we get in Dutch lit. Which Dutch teachers manage to spoil completely, most of the time.

Mind you most of the Dutch lit taught in schools would go right over a 15-y-o's head even if taught properly, IMO.

When reading chapter 10-ish, I noticed the mention of Marian Evans' autographed novels, and went "Uhm, sure, whatever".

When reading chapter 50-ish I went "George Eliot? Where did George Eliot come from all of a sudden?"

Then: *lightbulb* *grabs Middlemarch from bookcase and glances at preface* "AH!"

[ratty_skipness]

You know, I'm very proud of you. You are doing them. (I'm still stuck in the rut of the no-longer-possible-to-do-anything. Wednesday night at 11.40, I'd just finished watching JAG and was about to go to bed quite content that I'd done everything I'd had to when I realised that I had a 3000 word essay due the next day. All manner of nasty thoughts entered my head.)

[sietske]

Gah! Nightmare!