Day 2 of the challenge and I'm stressing out... Not about the challenge, though. That's actually going great!
It's the usual Uni assignment stress. Could have avoided it if I'd been a bit better with my time management. But hey, lets face the facts - I've never been too good at that. I just seem to love the anxiety that comes with approaching deadlines and unfinished work!
This time it's hitting me with full force in the form of a 2500 word essay about 1970s Vietnam war films. Sure, I came up with the specific topic myself and negotiated it with the tutor to suit both of us. And I even gathered all the material I think I need for the assignment before taking off for Christmas break. Still, I'm back in a familiar place with just a couple days left and pretty much nothing done.
Well, there is one good thing about this. Since I'm still in the middle (or start more like) of working on the essay, I can link it with the 250-project.
Two of the films that I'm using for the essay just happen to be on the Top 250 -list: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) and The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978) [36 and 135 on the list].
Watching those two films in one day takes its toll... Really good films, but both leave a bit of an unstable feeling in the end. I bet it'll take me a while to fall asleep tonight after this experience.
Anyhow, I'm sure I can write quite abit about those films for the essay. But first I've got to get through my academic material and find the basis for the whole thing. That's the hard part... We'll see how that goes. Still planning to be able to start writing the actual paragraphs tomorrow.
Here's hoping!
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