Jake, Simon and/or DaveGrapes.

robyn · #1 (**permalink**) Oct 03, 04

I will give you $40 if you write my CanLit essay for me.

miss.myra · #2 (**permalink**) Oct 03, 04

Harsh :( I'm not even a candidate

I'd almost do it, you know.

robyn · #3 (**permalink**) Oct 03, 04

Do if for me and I'll throw in an invite only sleep over, myra.

sidekick · #4 (**permalink**) Oct 03, 04

what book are you reading for it?

robyn · #5 (**permalink**) Oct 03, 04

I have read most of the classic anthology '15 Canadain poets x 2' edited by Gary Geddes. Besides this cooool poem by Bowering called Albertasaurus, none of it really appeals to me.

miss.myra · #6 (**permalink**) Oct 03, 04

Any Atwood from the Journals of Susanna Moodie? I'd be all over that.

robyn · #7 (**permalink**) Oct 03, 04

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Originally Posted by miss.myra

Any Atwood from the Journals of Susanna Moodie? I'd be all over that.

Ugh. Plenty.

...there is a barn, but I am not in the barn; there is an orchard too blah blah blah blah....

Grapes · #8 (**permalink**) Oct 03, 04

I'll give you $40 worth of advice.

When you're dealing with an assignment like this, and all you can think about is how much you hate the content you're supposed to be writing about... write about how much you hate it! Take that Atwood stuff and pick it apart!

In an educated manner, of course.

Not only does this allow you to vent, but it also makes essays go waaay faster.

robyn · #9 (**permalink**) Oct 04, 04

^I'll give you $60.

miss.myra · #10 (**permalink**) Oct 04, 04

Robynann, if you need help you know how to bug me.

Seriously, I'll work the shit out of anything from Atwood's "Journals of Susanna Moodie".

robyn · #11 (**permalink**) Oct 04, 04

Honestly, it's not a hard essay. I am just so totally uninterested and demotiviated (which is why I've got the coffee on).

For some reason it refuses to just write itself. This may have something to do with the fact that I'm not even really trying. WHO KNOWS???

ps - Thanks myra!

-ff- · #12 (**permalink**) Oct 04, 04

Unfortunately Can Lit is a bit far out of my field.

That and I'm already writing an essay right now for me.

THAT, and I think you should do your own paper because, otherwise, what the hell are you even going to school for? COME ON, LEARN. YOU CAN DO IT.

robyn · #13 (**permalink**) Oct 04, 04

Fine, fine I shall write my own paper and leaaaarn something.

But I can't decide if I should write it on the trope of insanity/madess or the landscape as a comonality between poems. I mean, does being crazy or living near a mountain or something make us 'canadian'? I DON'T CAAAAAARE.

-ff- · #14 (**permalink**) Oct 04, 04

^

I think both define us as canadians. Perhaps the two are linked.

I know I'm crazy. And I can see mountains from my house.

robyn · #15 (**permalink**) Oct 04, 04

Maybe I can do some eastcoast/westcoast/prarie madness comparison thingy?

MAYBE I COULD ACTUALLY START WORKING SOON????

mapleleaf4ever · #16 (**permalink**) Oct 04, 04

^ Sounds like a good plan... although Robyn... here's a little tip that's worth $1,000,000 that has worked very successfully throughout my Life and has got me very far. Bullshit baffles Brains. Scored me an A many a time.

robyn · #17 (**permalink**) Oct 04, 04

^$80, Erik. Dooooo it.

mapleleaf4ever · #18 (**permalink**) Oct 04, 04

lol If you were doing an Essay on Political Science, International Relations, Astrophysics, Aviation, Geography, Meterology or other such Subjects I'd be the one to talk to. I'm about as deep as a Kiddy Pool so Lit isn't an area I accel at. Sorry Robyn. :(

-ff- · #19 (**permalink**) Oct 04, 04

My suggestion to you, Robyn, is to only take classes in which the material interests you.

School shouldn't be painful.

robyn · #20 (**permalink**) Oct 04, 04

I actually really like Canadian Lit, we (the entire class, proff included) are just valiantly trying to work our way through the mandatory poetry section right now. It's all down hill after this.

Now I will take the books outside with the intention of working in the sun, but really I'm just going to fall asleep on top of them.

Grapes · #21 (**permalink**) Oct 04, 04

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I mean, does being crazy or living near a mountain or something make us 'canadian'?

Are you referring to the almost inevitable creeping onset of isolation and despair we canadians are faced with due to our insignificance in the face of our country's massive geographical infrastructure?

Is that what you mean?

mapleleaf4ever · #22 (**permalink**) Oct 04, 04

Sounds like you've lived in some of the places I have Dave...

robyn · #23 (**permalink**) Oct 04, 04

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Originally Posted by Grapes

Are you referring to the almost inevitable creeping onset of isolation and despair we canadians are faced with due to our insignificance in the face of our country's massive geographical infrastructure?

Is that what you mean?

Well, obviously.

ps - I love dave.