But the good thing is that I've just conquered two exams today.
Barcelona en su contexto cultural - check.
La lingüística - check.
& I only have two more before I'm finished with the semester (yes, I've actually done a semester in Barcelona)! Then it's off to Berlin, into the freeze once again. At least I'll have my Uggs this time.
I love this picture of Papa Hem.
I haven't been doing much lately other than studying. Yesterday I sat in the dining room of our our apartment the entire day studying in my pajamas and eating jellybeans. Jorge and his girlfriend came in to join me around 3pm for lunch. They were still in their pajamas too. I read literary criticisms on Los mares del (fucking) sur by Vázquez Montalbán so that I could write an essay on it today for my final. I ended up talking all about the bougiouise of Barcelona and how it's characterized in the novel through the use of food and scandalous behavior. It was either top-notch bullshit or borderline genius. You're choice.
Right now I need to do some grocery shopping, laundry, and clean part of the apartment before Marlene comes home tomorrow. She's been in the United States for the past month or so, and well, we've neglected the cleaning a bit. In the name of exams, I've actually neglected a bit more than just the cleaning... but that's to be expected really.
1 comment:
You wrote: "It was either top-notch bullshit or borderline genius."
Most academic papers and research are both. The terms "top-notch bullshit" or "borderline genius" are synonymous with each other.
The only rule to observe when writing scholarly works (including university exams) is not to quote without attribution. Some people might call it plagiarism.
The dirty little secret is that academic and legal writing place a premium on quoting the words of previous scholars in order to justify the illusory continuum of scholarship. In reality, it is legalized/institutionalized plagiarism.
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