Study Update

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I haven't posted anything for a whole week as I have been busy actually keeping up with my uni work. Crazy times. 

Despite my initial reservations about life writing, (autobiography/biography) I have found doing the activities interesting. The chapter at the moment is memory, and it's weird the first memories that come to mind when you have to suddenly think of one. Also looked at different methods of writing, associative and narrative and the pros and cons these have to the readers understanding. Also, as stupid as it sounds, this blog is a piece of autobiography, which is weird to think. Some people I've told about this (but not shown. No no no!) ask if it's like an online diary. Which is really isn't. I started it out to write articles and reviews of stuff, which I did want to include more journalism stuff, but so far with all my uni work and work work, I haven't had any time to start proper research for anything I want to write about. Conclave being the most recent example. And the thing with news is, you have to write something pretty quick otherwise it's just boring and no one cares. 

In my Lit module I'm reading James Joyces' Dubliners, which is a book of short stories about people in Dublin starting with children and going through different stages of life. Once again I find it hard to fully understand what is completely going on, as I find you need to learn so much about the context to get the references the characters are making. In some of the stories they refer to the Irish Movement? And although I've made some notes on the context, I still don't really know if this is something I should know more about for my assignment. I'm actually really enjoying this book, despite my complete lack of understanding, because the stories are so short, some are about five pages long, it stops me getting bored and I can make notes of each story before starting the next and have a nice break from reading. 

Apart from uni work I have not done a whole lot else aside from work. I go out a lot for food I've noticed and I really don't get how I can afford to half the time. It was mothers day last Sunday and I made roast beef for the first time, I must say, it was amazing. The beef was cooked but pink in the middle and the potatoes were amazing. Today is St Patricks day and would have been my Grandads 90th birthday, as is the tradition in the whole, we all drink whisky and Guinness. 

I've actually written down post ideas so there are no excuses, I hope I do at least two more this week. I'm going to have a bath now finish the last story of Joyces' 'The Dead'. (Which incidentally is fifty pages long...)

LB