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It's getting harder to write here thanks to the crushing weight of dissertation blues and one or two other things which I Just Don't Want To Do.
I resolved to myself that this would be the day I begin putting pixel to screen on the thesis front, but as yet I have written not a word. That's right, nothing. I have photocopied a fair bit of stuff though, and I did buy a highlighter pen and some staples, so you could say I've made a start. What really holds me back is (flimsy excuse ahead...) not having a computer of my own to work on. I don't even believe myself actually. What really holds me back is an unwillingness to do any of this stuff at all. I'm sure there's a syndrome I could claim to have. Bone Idle Undergrad Syndrome. BIUS, pronounced a bit like bias.
It's hard to know exactly where to start with the whole thing. Did you see that? It's another Flimsy Excuse!
Anyway, enough about that, it just makes me feel like a waster. Which I am, but I try to avoid thinking about it. For obvious reasons.
What I really need to do is start thinking of questions I can be asking people. About blogs. This means YOU if you're a blogger and you're a-readin' this.
An amusing thing I discovered just this very minute: Apparently the Lord of the Rings is about the rise of Nazism and totalitarian regimes. I hadn't thought of that, I was sure it was just about wet-bag hobbits getting it on with one another and crying about people wanting to touch their rings. Then again, my mother believes it's about the industrial revolution and how it encroached on the simple lifestyle J.R.R.R.R.R.R. Tolkien was so whistful about. I really don't think JRRT was even slightly arsed about the Nazis or anything else apart from trees and nice biscuits.
If we take into account the number of times he mentions cake, tea, buns, pipes and other such things we can come to the conclusion that the 1000-odd pages are nothing more than a romantic allegory for the splendour of elevenses.
Of course, there are all the bits about trees being cut down and the Ents were surely a representation of JRRT's environmental concerns. In fact, if I remember correctly, the Ents didn't give a bugger about who was in power - the 'good' and the 'bad' were one and the same to them - they were more concerned about getting cut down and since Sauron's bunch seemed more inclined to chop trees down to make room for cattle to supply the new chain of fast food inns they were planning (McMordor's - 'We're Orcin' it!'). Of course, the hobbits were too small to cut down trees, elves were too camp, men were too stupid and dwarves were too subterranean, which only really left the orcs as a threat. They had nothing else to do.
Sauron's whole scheme appeared to be nothing more than a FÁS scheme for wayward reptile-people. Courses provided include advanced lumberjacking, fletching, metalwork, self-defense and a certain amount of alchemy and genetic engineering. There was also quite a strong emphasis on sports, particularly track and field events like javelin throwing, shot putt, sprinting, and cross-country running as well as basic fencing technique and classes in elocution.
If that sounds like nonsense to you, chances are you didn't read the book. Peter Jackson didn't make all that nature up himself, it was all on the pages. Without it, and with some severe abridgment of the hobbit-hugging sequences, the book would maybe have stretched to 200 pages and the film would have fit nicely into 2 hours, even including Tom Bombadil (who was a merry fellow. Bright blue his jacket was, and his boots were yellow...)
Another funny thing I discovered today was that the first blogs appeared in 1997. In 1999 there were 50, and by the end of this year Those In The Know predict there will be upwards of 10 million! It's a blog Explosion!
I've just spent ages looking for a nice picture to post here, but the computer I'm using is slower than a nun full of ketamine and I can't even see pictures, never mind post them!
So, I'm off to do something else. I'll stick a couple of links in for the perusal of any interested parties.
It's getting harder to write here thanks to the crushing weight of dissertation blues and one or two other things which I Just Don't Want To Do.
I resolved to myself that this would be the day I begin putting pixel to screen on the thesis front, but as yet I have written not a word. That's right, nothing. I have photocopied a fair bit of stuff though, and I did buy a highlighter pen and some staples, so you could say I've made a start. What really holds me back is (flimsy excuse ahead...) not having a computer of my own to work on. I don't even believe myself actually. What really holds me back is an unwillingness to do any of this stuff at all. I'm sure there's a syndrome I could claim to have. Bone Idle Undergrad Syndrome. BIUS, pronounced a bit like bias.
It's hard to know exactly where to start with the whole thing. Did you see that? It's another Flimsy Excuse!
Anyway, enough about that, it just makes me feel like a waster. Which I am, but I try to avoid thinking about it. For obvious reasons.
What I really need to do is start thinking of questions I can be asking people. About blogs. This means YOU if you're a blogger and you're a-readin' this.
An amusing thing I discovered just this very minute: Apparently the Lord of the Rings is about the rise of Nazism and totalitarian regimes. I hadn't thought of that, I was sure it was just about wet-bag hobbits getting it on with one another and crying about people wanting to touch their rings. Then again, my mother believes it's about the industrial revolution and how it encroached on the simple lifestyle J.R.R.R.R.R.R. Tolkien was so whistful about. I really don't think JRRT was even slightly arsed about the Nazis or anything else apart from trees and nice biscuits.
If we take into account the number of times he mentions cake, tea, buns, pipes and other such things we can come to the conclusion that the 1000-odd pages are nothing more than a romantic allegory for the splendour of elevenses.
Of course, there are all the bits about trees being cut down and the Ents were surely a representation of JRRT's environmental concerns. In fact, if I remember correctly, the Ents didn't give a bugger about who was in power - the 'good' and the 'bad' were one and the same to them - they were more concerned about getting cut down and since Sauron's bunch seemed more inclined to chop trees down to make room for cattle to supply the new chain of fast food inns they were planning (McMordor's - 'We're Orcin' it!'). Of course, the hobbits were too small to cut down trees, elves were too camp, men were too stupid and dwarves were too subterranean, which only really left the orcs as a threat. They had nothing else to do.
Sauron's whole scheme appeared to be nothing more than a FÁS scheme for wayward reptile-people. Courses provided include advanced lumberjacking, fletching, metalwork, self-defense and a certain amount of alchemy and genetic engineering. There was also quite a strong emphasis on sports, particularly track and field events like javelin throwing, shot putt, sprinting, and cross-country running as well as basic fencing technique and classes in elocution.
If that sounds like nonsense to you, chances are you didn't read the book. Peter Jackson didn't make all that nature up himself, it was all on the pages. Without it, and with some severe abridgment of the hobbit-hugging sequences, the book would maybe have stretched to 200 pages and the film would have fit nicely into 2 hours, even including Tom Bombadil (who was a merry fellow. Bright blue his jacket was, and his boots were yellow...)
Another funny thing I discovered today was that the first blogs appeared in 1997. In 1999 there were 50, and by the end of this year Those In The Know predict there will be upwards of 10 million! It's a blog Explosion!
I've just spent ages looking for a nice picture to post here, but the computer I'm using is slower than a nun full of ketamine and I can't even see pictures, never mind post them!
So, I'm off to do something else. I'll stick a couple of links in for the perusal of any interested parties.
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