funny, funny. ha, ha.

i'm currently a little high on shakespeare - after i (more or less) finished my paper on humour, i took a break to watch cool it, an amazing documentary on what we should really be focusing on in order to combat climate change, then grabbed a cup of coffee with nystire before going to the final workshop meeting for the summer.

1. humour: i am now convinced that the benign-violation theory is only partially correct, and that what it describes is not humour but rather the specific case in which humour is combined with the violation that requires the resolution that humour provides. either i'm awesome for discovering that humour is a puzzle with mythological properties, or i'm an idiot. i'll find out soon, i guess. the paper's crap, but it's good enough to hand in and rewrite if necessary; that's just like all my papers at the moment.

2. the creative writing workshop: we acted out the completed script that one of the girls wrote, and it's a solid two-hour stage production at least. i think it could use a bit more polish, but the experience was quite enjoyable - i played two characters, one that i liked and one that i really didn't, and had fun with both.

3. i was going to pick up dinner on the way home, but i had no cash for the dudes who don't take credit cards... so i walked to the atm - but the cash machine was out of order. i walked back to etnachta, and by that stage was soaked in sweat. it's not nice to walk into a respectable establishment with giant obvious patches all over :(

4. after eating, i didn't know where to begin with my final paper. and then i realized that the phoenix and the turtle is a summary of the sonnets, and from there began analysing a lover's complaint. finally! it's a tight fit with my thesis and has just been incorporated. so now that i have something interesting to say, i guess i'm just gonna say it.

all i have to do is complete this by the weekend.