Thor vs. Communism, FIGHT!

Actually, that's what Dr. Don Blake aka Thor seems to do w/ most of his time. That and fight aliens that look vaguely Asian. Comic books reflecting the times much? I read half of Volume 1 and kind of stalled, mostly because I have weekly meeting w/ Dr. Patterson. It's like he kinda wants a thesis statment *now* and I'm looking like a deer in head lights going, "We just came up with this idea, halp me plz!" It's the 10th week of classes and by the 15th week I have to submit a proposal...

Yeah, you could hear the "Gurk!" coming from my mind. So I have 4 weeks to write this in between my Britain, Philosophy, Art History, and Space Exploration papers. Oh and read the books for those too.

Sometimes I hate myself.

So the comic book slant is awesome, really cool and further proof that I hope I am as smart as Dr. Ruane when I get older. As for a Thesis statement...I'll grab a white board and toss some stuff around. Hrm. Like I need to find out *exactly* what I need to write. Dr. Taylor wants me to do like Norse mythos in the 60's which would include westerns [as if my grandmother didn't watch enough "Gunsmoke" and "The Rifleman" in my child hood] but I don't know. I asked Dr. Perdigao to be my second reader and she said yes so I have like the 2 coolest professors in my department on this, giggity-giggity. /dance

That and I need to register for classes next semester, make wedding plans, and oh yeah, find a job. Yar.

But first, Thor has to stop a Communist revolution in some small latin country.

An actual coherent post

Stream of conscious writing equals bad. Alright.

So after tossing a few ideas back and forward, Dr. Ruane came up w/ the idea of "Representation of Viking Mythology in Modern Culture". That totally works with what I've been reading so I am, to say the least, happy about that. Now since I know where I'm going, I can sit down and...

...watch movies, read comic books, and play video games. ::cackles maniacally:: God, there are days where I love my major and this is one of them. Oh there will be more work I'm sure of it, work that I really don't want to do but I'm in my happy place so leave me be. =P There's a list of stuff he wrote down so now it's all about going to hunt it down and reading it/watching it. I'm just excited that I can include Neil Gaiman in this--he's one of my favorite if not my absolute favorite author. Woo!

I promise if "The Pathfinder" is anywhere close to being as bad as "Alexander" I'm going to cry.

I read Vest Dan's capstone (during Art History class...not like I was missing anything) and it was like a Jet Li kick to the forehead as in, "So THAT'S what I need to do!". Not like copy, oh no, but as in format and how it was done and such. It's more, I guess the word I'm looking for is 'freeform' than the research papers I've done in the past.

Tomorrow I have a meeting w/ Dr. Patterson about all of this. I don't know exactly what to say but eh, I'll flow with it, tell him what I'm doing and it all should be like pigs in a blanket. Or something like that.