August 22, 2008

I’ll clear it…some…day….

Oh yeah, IOC is over. The demon which I’ve wrestled with for so long – Staying back in school until 10pm, pouring over King Lear trying to find obscure links that may or may not exist. Evidence of Lear’s allegedly incestuous inclinations towards Cordelia. The parallel of Edmund to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice . Yadda yadda. I’ve been so affected by IOC that now I keep noticing repetition, rhyming, plosives, sibilance, cacophonics, alliteration and symbols in everything I read. I am also convinced that if you look at something for long enough, you can relate it to almost anything you want. Somehow. I’m fairly certain that 80% of the links we find while mugging for King Lear during IOC were never actually intended by Shakespeare. He must be looking down at us now feeling like a god.

Shakespeare: King Lear….Incestuous? Whoa…400 years and I’ve never thought of it that way. I’m goooooood

Anyhoo, IOC went pretty well – much better than I imagined it would. I got Apologia Pro Poemate Meo, which was somewhat disappointing. Mostly because I had studied so hard for King Lear and 12th Night, and was positively certain I could link the hell out of any extract that came from either. Nonetheless it wasn’t a bad extract to get – and I thank Jeanette for that. The night before she quizzed me about the poem and that lead me to read up more about it and I found alot of “bonus” information which impressed the hell out of Paul Tan. The actual IOC was a bit hair raising as the stopwatch wouldn’t start after Paul Tan started the recording, which lead to me silently screaming out to him that it wasn’t working, to which he replied by swapping out stopwatches. Also, prior to the actual presentation, I hadn’t really annotated as much as I would have liked to. As a result I was afraid I either wouldn’t have enough to say, or I wouldn’t be able to organize it properly. This also meant that during the presentation I came up with alot of my points impromptu, and what was (I felt) a slightly messy commentary. However Paul Tan seemed genuinely impressed for some reason. Score.

Now that IOC is done, it’s time to partay a bit before I hunker down into prelims mode. Suki Sushi buffet ftw! It’s a brilliant thing to be in a tight class – I gander that our class gatherings easily double that of most classes. I guess this’ll be the (close to) final hurrah before we *really* get down to studying for the IB exams. Mein gott.

In other news, I’ve gotten all of my shirts! Huzzah! (Kyle hates me using that word for some reason, so huzzah huzzah huzzah huzzah huzzah huzzah huzzah huzzah huzzah!) Now I have an disproportionate amount shirts compared to pants. Shall need to go shopping for those someday… But no more shirts for at least the next 10 or 20 years for me.

Alright gotta run for a sushi buffet.

Huzzah.