Back and then gone again.
Mar. 17th, 2007 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sub_dividedWriting from the Dunderstandt Media Center aka "the Dude." I love North Campus, it's always so quiet up here. My parents are in town -- by which I mean Ohio, a mere four hours away -- this weekend for my father's half-brother's wife's brother's wedding, so they stopped by Ann Arbor to take me out for dinner and the usual last night. (By "the usual" I mean kidnapping me back to their hotel room.) They've promised threatened to be back on Sunday to hijack me to dinner with some friends in Detroit. I told them I have a major paper due Monday but do they care?
...At this point I don't know if I care. It's a research paper and despite having camped out in the archives every hour I wasn't in class this week (who decided 9-5 were good hours of operation anyway?) I don't have the research I need -- not even close. I have never been more doomed in my life. -_-; Of course this is all my own fault. If only I weren't so easily sidetracked! I went in today looking for ONE THING and ended up with TWENTY PAGES of notes on total irrelevancies. Making matters worse I kept stumbling across material a classmate is writing her paper on and feeling compelled to spend precious library hours noting down the particulars so I could waste yet more time typing them up and emailing them to her. (I know, I know.)
Proof: Great movie, highly recommended. Catherine (Gweneth Paltrow) is the daughter of a genius mathematician (Anthony Hopkins) and a genius in her own right -- but she hasn't been able to persue her own career because she's been looking after her father ever since he developed schizophrenia, which she might also be developing. Also: Jake Glyenhall as the struggling PhD love interest and [someone] as the "normal" sister Caroline. Great performances, especially Paltrow's. Great framing too. Possibly the only weakness is that the script is generally funny while the cast generally thought they'd been cast in a serious dramatic movie. XD. Adapted from a play, which probably explains the confusion.
Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open
Subtitle: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America. Read this for History 467 (U.S. Since 1945). Okay cultural history I thought -- it does a decent job fitting the movement into the times, and expounding on how attitudes have changes -- except for the sections where Rosen gets too caught up in describing the movement from the inside. I remember thinking that was par for the course: generally the books assigned for 467 have been good, but maybe leaning toward too insular. Then I got to a section on women in groundbreaking professions all going on record as "just one of the guys" and -- I lost it. I mean it really hit me. I must have cried for an hour...Yin came down and we talked it over, which helped, which is weird, because talking it over never helps.
Anyway. This book is too long to be a really excellent overview of American feminism (what I really mean is that too much of the length is spent on rah-rah boosterism) but everyone in America, especially women, should read at least one in-depth book on the subject, and this one is decent.
Left to blog: 11 books, 2 movies, 1 spring break and a mood theme. ESSAY FIRST. (omg tonight we're throwing A PARTY I am going to KEEL OVER AND DIE please address comments TO MY CORPSE.)
...At this point I don't know if I care. It's a research paper and despite having camped out in the archives every hour I wasn't in class this week (who decided 9-5 were good hours of operation anyway?) I don't have the research I need -- not even close. I have never been more doomed in my life. -_-; Of course this is all my own fault. If only I weren't so easily sidetracked! I went in today looking for ONE THING and ended up with TWENTY PAGES of notes on total irrelevancies. Making matters worse I kept stumbling across material a classmate is writing her paper on and feeling compelled to spend precious library hours noting down the particulars so I could waste yet more time typing them up and emailing them to her. (I know, I know.)
Proof: Great movie, highly recommended. Catherine (Gweneth Paltrow) is the daughter of a genius mathematician (Anthony Hopkins) and a genius in her own right -- but she hasn't been able to persue her own career because she's been looking after her father ever since he developed schizophrenia, which she might also be developing. Also: Jake Glyenhall as the struggling PhD love interest and [someone] as the "normal" sister Caroline. Great performances, especially Paltrow's. Great framing too. Possibly the only weakness is that the script is generally funny while the cast generally thought they'd been cast in a serious dramatic movie. XD. Adapted from a play, which probably explains the confusion.
Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open
Subtitle: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America. Read this for History 467 (U.S. Since 1945). Okay cultural history I thought -- it does a decent job fitting the movement into the times, and expounding on how attitudes have changes -- except for the sections where Rosen gets too caught up in describing the movement from the inside. I remember thinking that was par for the course: generally the books assigned for 467 have been good, but maybe leaning toward too insular. Then I got to a section on women in groundbreaking professions all going on record as "just one of the guys" and -- I lost it. I mean it really hit me. I must have cried for an hour...Yin came down and we talked it over, which helped, which is weird, because talking it over never helps.
Anyway. This book is too long to be a really excellent overview of American feminism (what I really mean is that too much of the length is spent on rah-rah boosterism) but everyone in America, especially women, should read at least one in-depth book on the subject, and this one is decent.
Left to blog: 11 books, 2 movies, 1 spring break and a mood theme. ESSAY FIRST. (omg tonight we're throwing A PARTY I am going to KEEL OVER AND DIE please address comments TO MY CORPSE.)