Beat it!

My fingers hurt.

From all the mindless writing I did for my exams.

Filling pages with other peoples stories, giving critical commentary on pieces, some of which I've never even read.

But I must admit, I did this M.A. in english simply to get back in touch with literature. Since I did a bachelors in mass media we barely did any literature and it had been three years since I analysed poetry or looked at a text with any historical or sociological context.

Sure, there are poems and pieces you don't really want to "read into" so deeply into and you'd rather just enjoy for the feel of it.

Nonetheless, it is quite amusing to have some more perspectives to the
works and enjoy them in their historical context. It also helps trying to get into the mind of the author. Ain't it funny, you never know if you're trying to get into the author's mind or if the author's trying to get into yours....

Oh there I go again, writing mindlessly.

So, I don't care if the examiner is getting paid two rupees to correct those 35 damned pages i aggressively wrote through - ofcourse, provided I pass and ofcourse, i wouldn't mind a first class - sigh, beggars can't be choosers though.

But you don't HAVE to do your M.A. in english to be interested in some writing. Here's something I stumbled upon during my research, its about the beat generation, a group of poets from not too long ago.
Hope you enjoy it!

http://www.litkicks.com/Texts/ThisIsBeatGen.html

oooh Skittles...

That's my most favourite candy in the world...

Studying

I gotta admit. I really admire nerds, and I really try hard to be one. Only, for many reasons (better left unsaid), my memory sucks. Not to mention my incredibly low span of concentration. I even have to drag myself to a library to go study. Infact, I stayed home on a Saturday night reading Brecht while my friends went partying. But Brecht wasn't the only thing I did tonight...
I came across this amazing blog where you could enter any name and it would generate something called "A Mechanical Contrivium" using that name. (By the way, the word Contrivium was not in any of the dictionaries I looked up.) Anyway, these were completely random and totally cracked me up, check them out:

The Mechanical Contrivium: Riddhi
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Riddhi!
10. Two grams of riddhi provide enough energy to power a television for over twenty-three hours.
9. It can take riddhi several days to move just through one tree!
8. Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of riddhi, and frequently rise to the surface for air.
7. Riddhi, from the movie of the same name, had green blood.
6. Over 2000 people have now climbed riddhi, with roughly ten percent dying on the way down.
5. Originally, riddhi could not fly.
4. The only Englishman to become riddhi was Nicholas Breakspear, who was riddhi from 1154 to 1159. (this one almost killed me)
3. Cats use their riddhi to test whether a space is large enough for them to fit through!
2. Riddhi was declared extinct in 1902.
1. Riddhi was originally green, and actually contained cocaine.

The Mechanical Contrivium: Janine
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Janine!
10. By tradition, a girl standing under Janine cannot refuse to be kissed by anyone who claims the privilege.
9.The risk of being struck by Janine is one occurence every 9,300 years.
8. Janine is the only one of the original Seven Wonders of the World that still survives.
7.Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of Janine, and frequently rise to the surface for air.
6.The canonical hours of the Christian church are matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, Janine and compline.
5.Janine was declared extinct in 1902.
4. The average human spends about 30 days during their life in Janine.
3. Most bottles and jars contain at least twenty-five percent recycled Janine!
2. People used to believe that dressing their male children as Janine would protect them from evil spirits.
1. Japan provides over thirty percent of the world's Janine supply!

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Deanne!
10.The moon is 400 times closer to the Earth than deanne, and 400 times smaller!
9.Deanne will often glow under UV light.
8.Influenza got its name because people believed the disease was caused by the evil "influence" of deanne.
7.Deanne can clean her ears with her tongue, which is over thirty-nine inches long.
6.The number one cause of blindness in the United States is deanne!
5.Deanne will become gaseous if her temperature rises above -42°C.
4.If you drop deanne from more than three metres above ground level, she will always land feet-first! (I know for a fact that this one's not true though.)
3.If you drop deanne from the top of the Empire State Building, she will be falling fast enough to kill before reaching the ground!
2.Humans share over 98 percent of their DNA with deanne.
1.You share your birthday with deanne.

The Mechanical Contrivium: Mhatre
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Mhatre!
10.The word 'samba' means 'to rub Mhatre'.
9.It takes a lobster approximately 7 years to grow to be Mhatre.
8.If you blow out all the candles on Mhatre with one breath, your wish will come true!
7.Tradition allows women to propose to Mhatre only during leap years.
6.Mhatre is the traditional gift for a couple on their third wedding anniversary.
5.All shrimp are born as Mhatre, but gradually mature into females.
4.When Mhatre is swallowed, he will enter the blood stream within twenty minutes.
3.Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by Mhatre.
2.Mhatre can usually be found in nests built in the webs of large spiders!
1.Mhatre can be found on a Cluedo board between the Library and the Conservatory.

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Amol!
10. You should always open amol at least an hour before drinking him!
9. Grapes explode if you put them inside amol!
8. Amol can last longer without water than a camel can!
7. Amol does not have toes!
6. Amol can use only about ten percent of his brain.
5. There are more than two hundred different kinds of amol.
4. There is no lead in a lead pencil - it is simply a stick of graphite mixed with amol and water.
3. All gondolas in Venice must be painted black unless they belong to amol.
2. The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953, at Washington D.C., by amol!
1. Amol can be seen from space.

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Colly!
10.Colly can be seen from space!
9.Japan provides over thirty percent of the world's colly supply.
8.In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become colly on New Year's Day.
7.During the reign of Peter the Great, any Russian nobleman who chose to wear colly had to pay a special colly tax.
6.Bees visit over three million flowers to make a single kilogram of colly.
5.In the 1600s, tobacco was frequently prescribed to treat headaches, bad breath and colly.
4.Michelangelo finished his great statue of colly in 1504, after eighteen months work!
3.Colly is the world's tallest woman.
2.Over half of Americans are officially colly!
1.Colly will become gaseous if her temperature rises above -42°C.

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Hebles!
10.Hebles will become gaseous if their temperature rises above -42°C!
9.The liquid inside Hebles can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
8.In the Spanish edition of Cluedo, Hebles are the victim.
7.Hebles are the only king without a moustache on the standard pack of cards!
6.Hebles can sleep with one eye open. (This might actually be true)
5.If you lace Hebles from the inside to the outside, the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
4.Bees visit over three million flowers to make a single kilogram of Hebles!
3.Hebles became extinct in England in 1486.
2.Ideally, Hebles should be stored on their side at a temperature of 55 degrees.
1.The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention Hebles.