a glimpse of sharon world...

screw you music history.

okay. just a sidenote, this is my little rant of the day. :)

i'm finally done my history paper, after slaving away researching for and writing this essay for the whole weekend and working on it like a maniac. hahaha. :P i think this is the longest that i've ever taken to write an essay. but yah. anyway. SO...the guidelines are sooooo specific for this. too specific. all the footnotes have to be done a certain way. the bibliography has to look just like the example in the stupid little booklet that costed some ridiculous amount of money for what you actually get. the sad thing? i'm not even fully done yet. does anyone know how to put together an appendix? because i'm lost. and i've asked people, and they're all lost too. the essay itself is supposed to be 10-12 pages long. now, i know some of you might be thinking "10 pages? that's it?!?! that's nothing!" well. in those 10 pages i've had to analyse 6 pieces by hildegard von bingen, give a little bio, give a little historical background thing...and yah. analysing music is the worst. especially when everything sounds the same. and the scores that you actually find don't have recordings - so you basically don't have any idea what the piece sounds like. argh. stupid wlu library with the unhelpful people at the front desk. anyway, so my essay is about 10 pages long. plus one more page for the bibliography. and another one for the table of contents - which by the way is supposed to be done, NOT by page numbers, but by the paragraph numbers. what the crap?! so messed up. hmmm..then on top of that there's the musical scores and the text/translations which make up the appendix. so we're talking about maybe, 30 pages in total...or more. some scores are a few pages long...and i have scores to like...6 pieces on HIldegard of Bingen (which is what my paper is on - her musical works). see, that usually wouldn't be too bad, only for the fact that in the guidelines my teacher specified that there's no folders allowed. no binding allowed. no duotangs allowed. not even paperclips are allowed. so how are we supposed to put everything together? one fricking staple. ONE STAPLE!!! how are you supposed to put all those papers together with ONE STAPLE?!?!?! ahhhhhh! my teacher drives me nuts! she doesn't think!!! oh well. and tomorrow before noon i get to go see my teacher to hand in my essay.

my teacher's really a nice person...i just don't really like her right now. her or her guidelines. or her one staple craziness. :P

oh. sorry bout this rant. these are just feelings that have accumulated over the course of the past few days as i worked my butt off for this essay. :)