On Relationships

People are screwed up.


...that should be all, really, as it's all I've learnt in the past few months. Every time I work out something new about someone or myself, it comes back to that. People have screwed-up, over-complicated lives. People, including me, have no clue what they're doing, but they do it anyway.

You'll be glad to know I did not, in fact, screw up my endsems. I over-complicated some stuff, and I simplified some other stuff, and I came to the conclusion that I am a terrible friend. A good person, in general, with good intentions, but a terrible friend. I know that someone out there, reading this, knowing me, is agreeing with me.

I love you, and I want to apologize for being a shitty friend, but not yet. Not yet. Because fixing pain and broken relationships requires, above all, time.

Declaration of Intent

So this week, in Renaissance and Restoration, I will be doing Thomas More’s Utopia. I’ve begun by reading the 30-page introduction and hope to give it a preliminary reading by tonight. I have, in fact, spent most of today 

a. doing nothing and 

b. reading a chapter of the Good Study Guide, explaining how to approach primary texts, which is actually very very useful.

I am also planning to do Wordsworth, in Augustans and Romantics, since I have the necessary books and all. I’m actually looking forward to it, since I like Wordsworth, and I like reading poetry(even though analysing it is beyond me. For now, anyway).

For Victorians, I begin with Robert Browning(gasp, more poetry). I know next to nothing about the Victorian period, having done no background research on it, but I will. This should be fun. :D

Finally, for Varieties of English DX. I still don’t have the book, still haven’t ordered it off of Flipkart. I must be out of my mind! But it’s okay, since I have two of the other set texts, and the study guide to start me off. I’ll just pad my knowledge once the actual book arrives. I suppose.

Now to start! :D