Almost....there....gonna...make it.

Classes end for me on the 9th, and all my work must turned in by the 12th, 5 PM, Eastern Standard Time. Zero hour is upon us, ladies and gentlemen.

Fortunately, all my work for one class, my workshop, is already done. I submitted my third and final story before the Thanksgiving break and it was worked in class yesterday. I have the option of making a few final edits before turning it in with my portfolio, which I think I'll probably take advantage of.

For my other class, the Seminar in the Novel, I have the option of either two ten page papers or one twenty pager, which I have predictably just started. Additionally, I have a presentation on Irvine Welsh's "Marabou Stork Nightmares" Monday evening. The presentation is largely just leading a discussion and the book lends itself to a number of interesting questions that shouldn't make it too hard to get some talk going. The paper is where the stress lies. I originally planned to just do two 10 pagers, but I figured out what I would consider a good topic and think I might be able to parlay it into 20 pages. Using my film background, I'm breaking down the narrative structure in novels and their film adaptations and comparing how the complexities have to be altered for each medium. A cheap excuse to write about movies I like? Maybe. But an interesting topic that should be better for the teacher than reading yet another dissertation on the monotony of Tristram Shandy? Certainly.