Bombast
Regarding Uni;
The semester is more than halfway through, which means that everyone has lots of essays to do. I myself have 3, although one of these is a Creative Writing non-fiction piece so it doesn’t really count. The other two are for 19th Century Music and Society, in which I will be writing about Liszt and how he was a such a show-off, and From Homer to Hollywood, the mess of a subject forced upon one fourth of all first-year Arts students. In this essay I will wax eloquent about something which I really don’t think is important in any way. Essays themselves aren’t difficult to write, you just need to apply yourself for a few days and actually have some vague insight/interest in what you’re writing about.
This is easy for me in the case of 19th Century Music and Society; for example, I probably know more about Liszt than the Lecturer does. In the lecture I had today for the subject we were forced to listening to the first 10 minutes of Liszt’s Faust symphony (personally I think the last 10 minutes are much better), something which I found amusing since I listen to that particular piece all the time at home. In fact I have all Liszt’s major works on my laptop, which I listen to (along with an entire week’s worth of assorted other music from the Romantic era) very often. So this essay is going to be immense fun.
I think I also need to take up some kind of sport, as I get out of breath just walking to Uni sometimes. That’s bad. I shall investigate the badminton club.
19th Century Music and Society in an Arts degree? I don’t recall that subject being on the breadth list, though. Although I have to totally agree with you that it’s annoying when references are made to examples that one knows all too well. (But then it’s not like a subject can cater for everyone’s preferences anyway)
Checking your intro blog post, I see you’re a pianist =P. Whew, guess I’m not the only musician here.
Shouldn’t you at least attempt to work on not being out of breath when walking to Uni first before pursuing alternate physical exercise? =P Even the short trips that I take to the train station and to Uni have already improved my fitness especially when I’m lugging a heavy cello with me.
…you just described an essay as “immense fun.” What’s with that?
It allows me to show off my charlatanic and thesaurus-powered lexicon. And I’m pretty fanatical about Liszt, so I suppose it’s like writing an essay about your favourite TV show or something (I don’t watch TV by the way people – it’s soul-destroying nonsense).
Considering this is the last post you wrote, it looks like a good place to start. Perhaps I should have read your amazingly long comment before meeting everyone today. Despite last minute attempts to get you to stay in the country, as we are only coming from complete bias point of views – I say go for it.. did u apply for Oxford?
any updates on your whereabouts in the future? you better not have left the country already..