Closing the Gap

It has been a terribly long time since I posted, mainly because the semester has hit its crunch and I am overwhelmed by work, school, and mommyhood.

Following my completion of Bleak House and Jane Eyre, I plunged into Jude the Obscure and To the Lighthouse. Jude was bleakly depressing, although Thomas Hardy does make some important strides. To the Lighthouse is a practice in steam-of-consciousness writing and thus a little more challenging to read. This was also layered on writing my midterm (which I thankfully pulled an A+ on) and researching my final project.

I had class this past weekend and although it was tiring, I came away from it sad that my forays into literary discussion are so limited. I also wish some of the people in my class weren’t such morons. Seriously, it’s graduate school people; let’s get a little bit of a clue.

I am currently reading Wide Sargasso Sea and working on my final project about music in Jane Austen’s Emma. It’s more complicated than that, but I will save that for another post. After that it is on to reading The French Lieutenant’s Woman and then I am done! I’ll be glad to be finished, but I will miss class.

I turned in my prospectus the yesterday and am waiting to get notes back on it. The scope of this thesis is much bigger and more detailed than I originally imagined, but I think if I can pull off my intentions, it will be a good work. That is assuming I can defend it. Sigh. Back to reading.