Tagged: BA
Monday Happy Birthday Me!
On saturday I celebrated my birthday with my parents and S here in our flat with presents, coffee, delicious foods, talks, museum. I had a great day with the best company, and got great presents. I have an ambivalent feeling about birthdays, but my near ones made sure I had a great day. I even got a birthday song played on guitar! That’s a first!
And as the icing on the cake I got my BA grade today – 10 (B)! And I’m so content and grateful. Especially after I had to make an official complaint, I was afraid it was going to have an influence on my grade. But I’m happy. And ready to start the new semester on thursday. So many things to do before thursday….
Wednesday Back in the Game
Very bad photos from my phone – The park behind the university. K and I went for walks to get away from the mayhem of our BAs. Gorgeous.
Thankfully I’m DONE with my bachelor project. It took forever, and I felt insanely cut off from the world and sanity in the end. Now it’s time for Christmas and just LIFE. (And I totally appreciate the weather gods sending sunshine my way today)
Today is big doing-chores-day, and tomorrow is christmas-shopping-day (I’m usually done with the xmas shopping by now, so I’m completely stressed) with P.
I’d illustrate this post with a photo of the messy apartment, but… I find it embarrasing, so that’s not gonna happen! Look at the pretty snow instead….
(p.s. this is post nr. 400 ! :) Thank you for following!)
Thursday Still Gone
Yah. I wish the tabel in front of me looked more like this (by ‘this’ I mean with delicious coffee and cake). Instead I’m drinking coffee out of my thermo, water from a plastic bottle, and books and papers are spread around me.
BA is due on tuesday, my personal writing deadline is friday. So until then – Toodles!
Monday Loving it!
I know it’s on every single (Danish) blog, but whatevs. There’s still snow everywhere, even though it hadn’t snowed for days. Yesterday though, it snowed the entire day, and everything from branches and leaves on the trees to roof windows were covered. So I took a BA-break and went for a walk in the forest near by with S (and my camera). My image of a winter wonderland!
Even though I don’t want to think about it, we’re on the last week of the BA and I’m spending all days at the library trying to catch up. I’ve started getting stressful dreams every morning just before I wake up and my headaches from this semester are back.
I can’t wait until I’m done, and I put my life back on PLAY.
Friday Have we met before?
Yet again I’m in the BA-zone. I so I would wish. I pretend to be writing my bachelor project right now, as it’s to be handed in on the 14th of december. No need to say that I’m ridiculously stressed. Normally I probably wouldn’t be, but it’s my bachelor project. Meh.
On top of that everything seems to be going wrong; no need to go into details, but it f*cks me up. All day, everyday.
Today the sun was white, and I could look straight into its magic. It was amazing.
Wednesday In the Cold
Photo from Reykjavík from Easters.
I miss Iceland. Denmark is so cold at the moment, and if I have to deal with this cold, I might as well be in Iceland where there’s actually a chance of snow.
I’m still struggling (yes, it has officially turned into a struggle) with knitting my scarf. It just never gets long enough! But I desperately need it for heat and for awesomeness.
My BA project is still haunting me – will be until 14th of Dec – I’m starting to panik a bit, I’ve only written 1½ page …..
Which is why I keep skipping classes this week, so that I can get something done on it, it’s horrible!
But this morning it’s lovely and foggy outside, probably cold – I’ll find out soon.
Monday One Day
We were poking fun at fashion. Halfway through the shoot, I realised it wasn’t fun for her and that she was no longer my best friend but had become a model. She hadn’t realised how beautiful she was and when she did, I found I didn’t think her beautiful anymore..
Corinne Day on Kate Moss, 1997
Photograph by Day in 1990 Third Summer of Love in The Face
While studying for my bachelor project (on trash-realism and heroin chic) I came across this quote, and found it tragic, but beautiful.
These two women created magic together.
Saturday Ambitions
I was just studying for my lecture on monday (field studies), while waiting for my frozen pizza (yes, I’m still sick – and alone) with my nose stuffed with toilet paper.. And my thoughts started to drift away from the ethnographic studies I was reading about. I realised that uptil now I haven’t had great ambitions with my studies. Well, yes – I have ambitions to do well, and to develop my field of knowledge and myself, but I haven’t had ambitions to go somewhere particular with my studies.
I don’t wish to be a great art theorist writing academic and critical articles on important subject on the matter, I don’t wish to work as a curator at a big museum and get my vision across, I don’t wish to be an artist using my background as an art historian. All these things would be fun, and they attract me too – who doesn’t want to be succesful in what they’re doing – but I do not have great ambitions to work my arse off to go somewhere particular. Does that mean anything to the way I work, and how much I’ll get out of my BA (maybe Masters next year)? It actually frightened me a bit.
I know people on my course who are enormously motivated and have great ambitions. They use their course actively, and their lives are fixed around the pillars that make their goals. And maybe it’s just because their ambition scare me, but they seem to get further than I, I just seem to be stuck in reverse.
I think my pizza is ready. I just needed to get this off of my chest.
Tuesday Random
For the first time since my last exams I’m gonna spend some of the day at the university library, desperately working on my BA-subject (I’m gettting closer!). Even though, I’m more in the mood for staying in bed with my sore tummy and movies.. But heck, has to be done.
Friday my dad will be coming up here with a few things (carpet for our hallway, PH-lamp..) and later friday we’ll all be heading home :) It’s going to be SO nice. Can’t wait!
Thursday Lost without you
.. But every time I’ve tried to come back here and write, I’ve been unable to. It’s not that I don’t have anything to write, say or show, but it’s been basically impossible to me.
I started university last week, and I’m already well into the world of studying, planning projects, organising and planning my BA-project. Last tuesday I found out – to my surprise – that I’m writing my BA this semester, and not the next one. And we have a deadline for choosing a subject on the 21. of september! I’m effed. Every time I think about it, I instantly get a headache.. So I’m pretty much just buried in all of my own mess.
I hope to be back in better show – sooner rather than later. I’ll keep trying.
