Yay, more Box Office Poison!

[gogmagog]

Reading Mary Shelley's Matilda for my Romantic Lit class tomorrow. I'm not sure which amused me more: our professor saying on Tuesday that this was "incest week," or the fact that in our syllabus we're currently in the section "Family Romances." XD

Let's Hollywood Linking!
- Kiss scene added to American release of Pride and Prejudice. While a kiss scene is less than Austenesque, I have no problem with it; however, the fact that it features Matthew McFadyen chanting "Mrs Darcy...Mrs Darcy..." over and over to Keira Knightley gives me a sinking feeling that this movie may be more than mildly traumatic. ;_;
- On the other hand, Pajiba (tagline: "scathing reviews for bitchy people") gave it a good review.
- Whoa, Diana Ross and Jon Voigt make a love connection. Good for them, though it does seem like an odd coupling. XD

Edit: Urk, decisions decisions. I know two of the classes I want to take next semester - the Shakespeare readings course and the Victorian Women Poets seminar - but I'm torn as to a third. The department has encouraged us to take a class outside of the department, so I'm looking at that. But Bookbinding is full, and I'm torn between taking another readings course (which I think would put me completely at my limit as to what I can handle, given that Shakespeare is more like a seminar in terms of paper length; none of them really interest me though) or taking an upper-level undergrad history course on the history of the medieval church.

Now, we're totally allowed to take upper-level undergrad courses outside of English and have it count towards our degree, but I'd feel completely dirty taking one in HISTORY given that I already have a history B.A. But it would make next semester so easy~~ the class size is 60 so it'd be at max a midterm, a final and MAYBE a paper, all at undergrad level.

...no, I can't. I'd feel too dishonest. Maybe I can audit it or something. But that still leaves me with another course to take. There's an Art History upper-level undergrad course on monsters and the medieval period...maybe I'll take that. Or maybe I'll just take another readings course and save the undergrad courses for future years, when I'll desperately need as many pud courses as possible to count towards my degree while still managing to teach snot-nosed undergrads. Or something.

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[ryuusama.livejournal.com]

See? See what I mean? Don't go see P&P! It's going to be horrible! It was bad enough in "Persuasion" when Ciarán Hinds kissed Amanda Root on a street in Bath in broad daylight, but at least it was just a little kiss, and he wasn't oozing, "Anne Wentworth, Anne Wentworth..."

Take the Medieval Monsters course. It's bound to be fun.