At the moment I'm busy with all the literary works we need to finish by the end of the semester. I need to finish my Translation studies' lecture journal by week 50, alongside my Literary methodology prose analysis and the Final Assignment (capitals because nobody knows what it's going to be like), not to mention my Home reading diary and the Translations research paper (which I have scheduled for the forthcoming Friday; maybe I'll manage to finish it during the day). In addition to all this I have the exam for linguistics, too. So in case there's somebody who actually follows what I write, there may be gaps from time to time.
Now I need to go home, get something to eat, and then go somewhere to rent V for Vendetta. I'm going to need it for my Translation studies' journal entry for this week. There's a nice alliteration in the film. I'm going to do an analysis of its translation. On the other hand I hope it's been translated with the same method (would be better for Finnish viewers), on the other hand it would provide more material (and possibilities for independent thinking) for the lecture journal if the alliteration has been left out from the Finnish translation.
We'll see if the Democrats do better in the congress than the Republicans. I found out today that Arnold Schwarzenegger (whose name is, for the record, correctly spelt) is a Republican. For some incomprehensible reason I’ve always imagined him to be a Democrat. Well, maybe a foreigner gets a better reception in politics if he stands for what is considered to be “American values”. Or maybe he actually does believe in the Republicans, I don’t know.
Okay, what was I suppose to do next? The student allowance incident (there seems to be some problem in my records according to the Kela people; I think the computer has taken me for someone else). Then the movie.
4 kommenttia
millikan
8.11.2006 14:33
Haven't seen the movie but in the comic there are so many references to name of V that leaving the alliteration out would be seriously confusing...
I guess too it is easier for a foreigner or member of similar minority to be a Republican to get somewhere. And as Mr Breathed (creator of comic strip Bloom County) said in 80's, the first black president in US will be Republican. But will it be Condi?
Splenetic
8.11.2006 16:50
Probably not. It would be far too confusing to have a Black woman to run a state like USA. I wonder what would be the result if the Americans had to choose between a White woman from the Democrats and a Black woman from the Republicans? (Plague or smallpox....? Plague or smallpox...?)
coco
9.11.2006 02:34
Nothing new will happen there untill all the old goofs in the senet and congress dies . They are higly paid dead wood.
Splenetic
10.11.2006 11:12
The less useful you are, the bigger is your paycheck. But by the time they do die, they have contaminated the rest of the congress with their mothbitten, cobweb-covered ideology. It's like an infectious disease.