Just relax.
Coming off of my second day of running around like a mad woman (a 7:30 am church service, three classes, three meetings, laundry, making dinner, baking bread, showering, running a book study, another class, doing readings, doing research, another meeting... and that's just since yesterday!) I have this tidbit of advice for others. Well, mostly me really.
Don't panic.
The worst part of a long, busy day is the worried anticipation beforehand, where I fret and fume over being tired, losing something, not remembering to pack my lunch, etc. etc. Then I get into my work, get interested, get absorbed, and all of a sudden I'm done! And y'know what -- that was actually kind of fun.
Not fun enough that I'd want to be this busy normally, but not as terribly bad as I thought. I work myself up into this freaked out state where my stomach is roiling and I'm all tense, when all I have to recognize is that I'm actually pretty good at organizing myself. I can handle it. I really really can.
So don't panic. As they say, it's the anticipation that kills you.
PS -- I hate William Carlos Williams. I don't care what vast significance his redwheelbarrow had, what deep insight he was trying to impart about rural life or art or whatever -- it's still a terrible terrible poem. That is all.
6 Comments:
Yes! Yes it is! And thank you!! It is, as my modernisms prof pointed out, the poem that makes or breaks your love of poetry.
Mine is not only broken, it is shattered.
7:40 AM
See, I get to have my cake and eat it too. Why? Because I am officially excommincating William Carlos Williams (and so far, all other modernists like Ezra "I like fascism!" Pound and T.S. "Incomprehensible" Eliot) from the rank of poet. Since he's not a poet, then I still like poetry (ie. Donne and Lewis Carroll and Robert Frost and Wordsworth and Keats).
yes, it's terribly elitist and snobbish for me to exclude a poet just because I happen to hate their work with the fire of a thousand suns, but you know what? It's my opinion, and it's all subjective anyways so YOU CAN'T STOP ME! Bwahahaha!!!
1:24 PM
This is exactly why I avoid English type classes. All I do is read Johinsa's fanfiction, and poetry, and I never run into this problem. Ever.
4:50 PM
I agree with you about Eliot, but I think this class doesn't actually *cover* Pound. (thank god.) I have gotten some good stuff out of it though! I enjoyed Hemmingway, Conrad (borderline Modern, I know), Ford Madox Ford...
Still, Biku may have a point. There's been enough of the other crap... *sigh*
7:04 AM
Alas, the "MK Poetry" subgenre is sadly neglected in modern English classes. Work on that, Bento-chan. We're counting on you.
Kenso The Cause I'm Too Lazy To Bother
2:55 PM
Sadly, I think I'd lose all English student cred. if I started quoting some of the now-infamous "MK-tree letters" in my classes. ;)
But I did manage to work in a reference to Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' a few weeks ago, so I think I'm doing my duty towards reminding people that there is a world outside the ivory tower.
2:45 PM
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