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Grades for the semester are coming in! I'd kind of forgotten what it was like to, you know, not be afraid of this occurrence. Last year was not so good, academically speaking.

But so far, I have an A- in the Oscar Wilde class, which means that both my research paper and final were better than I thought they were (I have the same professor for another class next semester, so I decided to pick them up from him then, mostly because I totally forgot to do the self-addressed envelope he told us to bring in). Which is a delight, because my research paper was a bit of a mess and could have used some streamlining, and the final consisted of three questions, one of which I kind of had to fudge because I never actually read Jude the Obscure, oops. I came up with some insane ramblings comparing Sue Bridehead to Algernon from The Importance of Being Earnest - yeah, I don't even fucking know. I was going "I don't even fucking know" while I was writing it, and only managed about two-thirds of a handwritten page. I guess the page and a half I wrote for the question about Dracula made up for it. XD

In Sociology, I got an A. And a perfect fucking score on the last test, which completely shocked me to learn, because I took it directly after I took the above test, and it was also an essay exam. I thought I'd just barely passed it, especially because my brain went on strike during the last question after I'd managed to get out a barebones response.

The other classes haven't come in yet, but I'm not looking for any more As - I didn't do too well on the WWI&II final, which I can say more definitively because it was a straight-up multiple choice test, and we have previously discussed how I was too pissed off about the Irish Literature and Culture final to do anything but vomit up a bunch of words, pad it with quotes, and call it a paper. Seriously, that class turned into such a fucking waste of time about a month into the semester. I'm going to be annoyed about it for while.

I'm looking forward to next semester, but for now, after having finished Yuletide? A few weeks where I owe no work to anyone anywhere suits me just fine.

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[jaclynhyde.livejournal.com]

Heh. Jude the Obscure was the only assigned novel I never finished in all my years in school. It was just interminable.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

I read, like, ten pages of it, plus random bits and pieces here and there. I just couldn't deal with Hardy's writing style AT ALL. I can usually at least tolerate that melodramatic Victorian shit where every character sounds exactly the same as every other character except for the ones with Wacky Dialect, but this semester I just couldn't. Probably because we'd been reading, you know, GOOD Victorian literature that didn't fucking do that shit.

Also: it gave me an excuse to watch a movie that contained both Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet, with bonus surprise!David Tennant. Not that I needed an excuse.