Bad Faery

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Wolves, vampires, Shakespeare…a normal week in the life of a bad faery

“The snow falls, and yes, the hand stretched into the
flakes’ path is a hand asking back a season now lost.”
Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers

This week:

This photo by persistingstars made me inexplicably happy.

I saw a fantastic production of The Taming of the Shrew

I watched a lovely documentary about Arctic Wolves. I had been following the film makers’ diary on the BBC website last year so it was great to finally see the playful Lucy in action.

Above: an Arctic wolf, image © Mark Smith

Am reading The Historian, a novel about some scholars researching the legend of Dracula and discovering it’s more than mere legend. It has helped provoked all sorts of odd dreams that I’ve been having almost on a nightly basis involving schorlarly research, vampires, the cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and of course wolves.

Watched some art journalling vids by the lovely and informative Kira

I had to miss the first tutorial for my new course due to the snow, heavy frost and gales we had over the weekend. Bit bummed out about that. But I’ve made a good start on the course work and am spending today compiling definitions for the glossary words I need to learn for this Unit.

The glossary is a big part of the course. When October rolls around and I have to do my exam the first question (worth 20% of the marks) will present me with a choice of six terms, four of which I must be able to define, hence if I know my glossary words off by heart it should guarantee a good start in my exam. There’s only (!) about 250 terms that I need to familiarise myself with over the course of the next nine months. So no worries there then!

Comments:

What a powerful photo of the white wolf. Wow.
Yes, You will master those 250 terms and do well on your exam. Enjoy the snow and the break. You will get back to the course in due time. All your reading etc sounds interesting. Glad you enjoyed the play too.

Posted by Lynn on 02/03 at 11:49 PM

What a beauty he/she is. Bummer about the timing of the storm.

Posted by Cris Marlow on 02/06 at 02:02 AM

I love watching nature shows...animals sometimes so much more ‘human’ than the people around me do. lol
I can’t count how many times after watching a great show on nature and wildlife that I’ve felt the urge to pack up and head out into the wilderness. Thankfully where I’m living now I won’t have to pack! I’m already there! ;)

Good luck with your exam!

Posted by monique on 02/06 at 06:54 PM

No problems at all there, clever Bad Faery :-)
Husband loves wolves so he will be bummed to have missed such a program.  Cute wolf!

Posted by Elizabeth on 02/06 at 11:59 PM

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