Somehow the week is already just about over. Yesterday I was advised for next semester; now that I'm done with all my core I can focus on higher-level major classes. I do not know why I took three easy core classes this semester, because not only did it make this semester too easy but since I no longer have any core classes to pad my schedule with, my semesters from now on are going to be very intense. However, next semester there's going to be an upper-level English classes called The Shakespearean Matrix. The description is as follows:
"The course seeks to interrogate Harold Bloom's broad thesis in his recent book. Essentially, Bloom contends that Western consciousness, ideas of the individual, our cultural make-up, etc. are all defined in Shakespearean terms; to paraphrase, ``we live in a Shakespearean universe". We will start with The Matrix (a good analogy for Bloom's thesis) and then move on to a number of other (modern?) Shakespeare films - products of popular and material culture - to see to what extent Bloom's thesis holds. Obviously, the course will involve thinking about our own engagement with different Shakespearean texts (written and performed) within a theoretical framework involving (at least at the moment) ideas from Baudrillard (Simulacra and Simulation), Terry Eagleton (Ideology), Althusser (Interpellation), Greenblatt (cultural `self-fashioning'), and Holderness and Belsey (on Shakespeare film texts and their radical potential and lack thereof respectively).
It's worth a shot, right?

Since absolutely every other supervisor is unavailable, I'm going to have to cover the shift tonight. It's going to be my first time supervising alone; I didn't really get nervous at the premise until I started thinking about it this morning. Hopefully I can simply keep as few things as possible from going wrong.

Man, I need to stop updating in the morning. This sucks.