Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more...

Shakespeare's Henry V. I had to Google it this time but in six months time I will, if all goes according to plan, be a font of knowledge about Henry V.

Only *counts on fingers* five more days until uni starts! I got my enrolment done online (which made me very happy) with only one hiccup - the history paper I really wanted to do, and had arranged everything else around, got cancelled. Never goes smooth. How come it never goes smooth? :-( I'm over it now. Mostly.

I'm taking three courses this semester: one on Shakespeare, one on philosophy of religion, and one on ethics (also a philosophy paper). The two philosophy ones are all I need to meet the requirements of my philosophy major (yay!) and the English is just for fun really. And to stop my brain exploding from all the thinking in phil... I just downloaded the syllabus and am quite excited for all the wrong reasons. It's a first year course so the essays are relatively short (1500 words), and the topics look fairly straightforward. It has an exam, which sucks because English exams are (a) hard, (b) not fun, and (c) tend to pull down my grades, but... But. It's open book. We can take in the text and notes. And we get given some of the questions in advance. Of course, no exam would be even better...

I'm happy about the reading list too:

As You Like It
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Henry V
Othello
Macbeth
The Tempest

I did Macbeth and Othello in high school which will hopefully make that section a bit more relaxed. I don't like tragedies anyway. :-P Apart from the fact that A Midsummer Night's Dream involves faeries (yay!) I don't know squat about the rest. The only thing I'm not thrilled about is the apparent emphasis on participation in class (i.e. talking) but oh well. Experience has taught me that 'class discussion' really means 'conversation between the lecturer and two or three people, most likely adult students, who are brave/knowledgeable enough to say anything.' You never know though.

Right now, I'm at the beginning of the line on this graph. I will likely end up going through most of the other stages. Not the drunk one though. Chocolate and novels are my drugs of choice. :-)


I wanted to end with a Shakespeare quote...