i am really upset. i missed pre-reg for courses and then i took a long time figuring out what courses i wanted and of COURSE the great courses are filled up. i noticed too late that American Contemporary Drama included a study of some of Kaufman's works. honestly, it would be so awesome if i could just pink slip in ... why does spring have such crappy courses with a smattering of good ones which get filled up the moment they open? i'm keeping my eye on the Virginia Woolf course for next year as well as "Pre-Stonewall: Sexuality and Censorship in Film". must-takes!

and i also missed out on the ENGL Graphic Novel course and they're studying such things as Jimmy Corrigan and Persepolis. i also missed out on the art installation course.

so i'm left with two gender studies courses. Pop Culture In/Out Japan, which sounds fairly interesting from the title itself - that's all i have to work with because there aren't course descriptions of it to be found anywhere. Women in Chinese Film - isn't it just too stereotypical that i'm taking this? i can't hardly wait to see who will be taking it. my adviser said, 'i think you'd like this' and of course she doesn't know much about me at all so i wanted to say to her, 'just because i'm chinese and female doesn't mean i will like this course' but then i thought about it and i was interested in it of course (because really all the americans know about chinese cinema is Wong Kar Wai and Zhang Yi Mou which are arthouse enough to be approved by our pretentious UofC and i was right in assuming so because i later saw it was such in the course listings and OF COURSE i want to take a course with WKW in it), but the assumptions she made of me just because of my gender and ethnicity were rather ... annoying. but if the films turn out to be too chinese martial arts-y for me, i'm dropping it immediately, and i'm almost hoping it will be so that i can be free of a course without feeling like i'm missing out. and finally, Shakespeare Two: Tragedies and Romances, which i am sure i will like. on top of my Natsci course - evolution of the earth (yay! obviously not taking this by choice...).

i think i'm overloading again. but i'm kiasu lah, i want them all - that's the problem though, i think i should just take three and do well in them rather than take four and be stretched out (which is what has happened these past two quarters). and being stretched out is no point because then i cant get enough out of the course that i should be getting. i always think it will be fine so i don't drop anything ... and then finally when it becomes too late to drop a course, i realize i can't take it.

i initially wanted to just take two Visual Art courses in spring and slack off (am considering art school after i graduate, for real ... no, not just considering, right now, that's REALLY what i want to take on after i grad. so i'm definitely either majoring/doing a minor in ARTV, but of course combined with another major ... maybe if everything works out right i'll get a triple major, because all my courses seem to intersect so nicely. you won't believe how many gender, english, film, theater courses are equatable in credit) but because i did not pre-reg, all those courses are filled up. not that art is slack, but i'd much prefer creating something rather than continuing to pick apart things like i have to keep doing now. UGH. i REALLY don't want to have to work very hard at all next quarter. also, i'm going to have further extra-curricular commitments, what with stage managing the miranda july and making an effort to turn up for queers and associates. it's spring, for god's sake.

back to my film paper. i'm doing it on a Godard film ... it's funny how i gravitated towards his film Vivre Sa Vie out of all the others, and upon reading more about him, realize that they call WKW his contemporary disciple. i guess my taste in art is incredibly distinctive, most of the time.

i realize i'm overusing the parantheses. forgive me, it's just about the only OCD thing about me.

+ posted by M @ 4:01 AM