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thursday, may 11, 2006
[200!]

I just heard that I will receive 7 ECTS credits and 200 euros for the media culture project course I'll be doing before Midsummer. I knew I was going to get those credits and some money, but until today I didn't know the exact sum. The coolest thing? I don't have to pay any tax on it because I'm receiving the money as a sort of scholarship :D

Now I don't have to worry where to pinch the 200e I won't be able to save from my official summer earnings.

I'm still a bit short on money, though, because I really do need some to manage June and July. Bollocks. But still hearing that there'll be some extra to back me up later feels extremely nice.

Now if only I could make some sense of my Shakespeare essay, I'd be all happy. I so wish I would've done it already.. Picked the topic #7: "Defend Titus Andronicus against the charge that it is just an Elizabethan horror play". It was the only one I could even imagine writing 2000 words about. There were 17 other options, for example:

2. "A notable aspect of the tragedies is the dramatization of female victimisation." Discuss this claim with respect to two of the plays.
4. "Tragic man has a fear of sexuality." Discuss this claim with respect to one of the plays.
10. Discuss the notion of tragic inevitability with respect to Romeo and Juliet.
13. "Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate / Nor set down aught in malice." -- Is Othello asking the impossible?
16. What does the sub-plot of King Lear contribute to the play?
17. Choose one important scene from one of the plays and discuss the difficulties involved in staging it.

Those are all very good topics, but 2000-2500 words? I can't see myself pulling it off.
Not that my topic of choice has proven to be any better. I've already used all the good ideas I had and have produced some 250 words. Only 1800 to go. o_O

I want a Snickers. Among other things.