Alex's Journal

I go home early, I get a decent amount of sleep, I wake up an hour before my alarm feeling snuggly and refreshed, and cuddle the bed for that extra hour...

And I'm still sitting here like a schlub, cutting "getting dressed" really close to the wire, in favor of telling you, the people of LJ that I'm being lazy.

I are clevar.

You might think that I don't like Shakespeare, but... I do! I like Professor McGee, and I like Shakespeare... I just apparently can't stand going to a 12:30 class. Despite the fact that I've never missed my 11:30 Tuesday/Thursday class.

What the hell, me. What the hell.

So I should really be getting to class. However, I am instead putting up a minor to-do list to reference from Pat's place (and giving a shoutout for tattoo ideas, again).

So, to recap:

I need a Shakespeare topic to write a 10-page essay on. I am going to throw my narrowed-down choices out to the audience, because I know you all love Shakespeare (please remember that I am limited to the following plays: Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus, Richard III, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, I Henry IV)

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1. Does Shakespeare contain (control, domesticate, make safe or unthreatening) the potentially subversive behaviour of women in his plays? If so, or if not so, how?

2. Discuss Shakespeare's exploration of one of the following: the struggle for identity, personal identity and social identity; OR the threat of social disintegration and the drive for order; OR the politics of Shakespeare as historian and historiographer.

3. According to Arthur Miller, the essence of Shakespearian tragedy is "the revolutionary questioning of the stable environment." In what ways do Shakespeare's earliest attempts at tragedy illustrate Miller's claim?

4. Discuss the significance of Shakespeare's representation of one of the following subjects:
-racial, ethnic, or national differences
-silence and/or silent characters
-names and naming in the dialogue of the plays
-eavesdropping scenes or references
-good name and/or sexual slander
-the preternatural: witches, fairies, spirits, ghosts

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So:

-decide on my topic for that essay (and which texts I'll be using)
-finish the cross-references for Information Design; hand in
-prepare 3 more arguments for the midterm tomorrow
-look over the CS100 example midterm, maybe even glance at the textbook

...all that, before and after Vampire. :P

I think that's really it for this weekend. Oh, and
-read Richard III again
-read Tufte ch. 1-3

Next post: options I may or may not have for grad school!