Just finished 5 pages of Foucault draft-ness, so I'm feeling pretty good. It's good to have a whole draft down and the next two nights to do rewrites (on top of the 3 other classes I also have stuff for between now and Wednesday morning). I was on a productive kick again last night, spending about 3 hours at Harper (the general 24-hour reading room with gorgeous Gothic architecture) plus four hours at Harper today to plan out the Foucault paper, make my study sheet for astro tomorrow (smallest handwriting ever on that one), and actually draft out Foucault. I've never spent this much time in libraries, and yet it really is not a lot compared to what most people do during finals week. I'm already tired of studying astro, but the exam is tomorrow at 1:30, so I'll probably wake up my usual weekday time at 9:30ish and study until it's time for lunch/class, and then that will be done. Forever.
My just-finished-5-pages good mood has only been enhanced by the wonders the internet has shown me as regards Game of Thrones; apparently two different trailer-esque videos were shown on HBO tonight, and both are now online. The first, called "Fear and Blood," is a generic dramatic 2:20 trailer, focusing on the legend of the Others (which HBO are calling "White Walkers"), some new shots of the far north/Castle Black, and some great Jamie/Cersei Lannister dialogue. It's not yet on YouTube, so I cannot embed it, but it can be found at the official HBO production blog Making Game of Thrones--check it out here.
The second video, embedded below, is a "Meet the Starks" feature, and it is easily my favorite video posted so far about Game of Thrones. It begins with some basic "this is Westeros" explanation by George R.R. Martin, seen before, but then it goes into some brief clips of Ned, Catelyn, Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran, Rickon, Jon Snow, Benjen Stark, and the north in general, including some more Castle Back stuff. Clips from interviews with the actors, glimpses of Winterfell and more, our first times really seeing Rickon and Sansa, and so much more--a really awesome intro to the Starks. I hope they do similar videos in the next weeks for the Lannisters, the Baratheons, and the like; it's really very well done.
Tomorrow's Monday, so it's almost time for the third link for The Maester's Path, which I will also hopefully post about sometime in between waking up tomorrow and taking my astro final at 1:30. I'll also be getting my copy of A Game of Thrones back from the housemate I lent it to sometime this week before we all leave for break, so I can finish a reread of it before the show premieres on 4/17 and start my reread of ASoIaF in general so I'll be done by July, when A Dance with Dragons comes out. Things are going pretty well, all things considered, for finals.
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