Year 3: The Holiday Ends Here!

One week down of Michaelmas term in my third and final year. I needed to get back to some sort of routine after a long and lazy summer holiday. But this year is going to be busy, reeeeeally busy. My head hurts from the amount of reading I'm doing and when I actually think about the amount of work I have to do to even get to the exam revision stage, I want to reach for the gin bottle. This term, I am:

- Having Greek tragedy supervisions, and writing weekly essays
- Attending 2 lectures each morning, again mostly on Tragedy
- Having practical criticism supervisions, and writing weekly essays
- Trying to do the reading for my dissertation, with the aim of doing draft at Christmas
- Worrying that I haven't read nearly enough novels, Shakespearean tragedy or Chaucer for next term and feeling guilty that I don't have time to do any reading on it at the moment
- Attending French tragedy seminars (no essays, mercifully, but lots of reading)

This doesn't sound that much when seen as a relatively short list. But the reading! At the moment, I have on my desk 9 books on Greek tragedy that I need to read in order to write my essay. Big books full of stuff that is almost beyond my comprehension. 9 books that are all going to contradict each other and make my head hurt. What I really want to do is have an afternoon nap. I've applied for the London marathon too, so who knows I may have 50 miles a week to run on top of all this come December!

On a shinier, happier note, I started tap dancing lessons on Monday. I went to the improvers' class and was by far the worst one there! There's an end of year show at the Corn Exchange. The theme is "The Movies". Our dance teacher told us our group would be performing a dance to the music from "The Mask" wearing .... wait for it.... yellow cat suits! When I told James this, the mouthful of coffee he had just sipped nearly came out of his nose.