So I'm sitting here watching David Tennant and Patrick Stewart on my television (PBS is airing Hamlet, yays!), but I'm only kind of half-way paying attention. Hamlet is one of my least favorite Shakespeare plays, and I've pre-ordered the DVD anyway. I've already *cough* not so legally *cough* acquired so many David Tennant movies/TV shows, that I ( Read more... )

The semester is winding down, and I'm simultaneously very excited and very nervous. I've completely given up the hope that I would be done with my thesis over the next couple months and graduate in the summer - there's just too much left to do. But on the plus side, I'm almost completely done with all my coursework. I still have to do an ( Read more... )

So it's probably been close to three months since I've posted. There's a very good reason, and yes, it's the same one I've been using since day one: school. The month before classes ended last semester was pretty much my month from hell with dozens of pages of papers due. And then Christmas break began, and it was the most blissful four weeks ( Read more... )

Once again, this incredibly busy semester has completely taken over my time, and I've sorely neglected my lj. Right now I'm in the middle of Hell Week #2, which is actually worse than the first one. I've finished all the readings for my last week of classes, so right now I'm about to start the process of writing my last three assignments (one for ( Read more... )

I don't have much to say since I have literally spent the entire weekend stuck in front of my computer for this stupid historiography paper, but I figure that saying that I have nothing to say will keep me in the habit of updating ( Read more... )

I have a confession to make - I've been avoiding livejournal for over a week now.  Why, you ask?  Because I got so incredibly busy in the days leading up to fall break, during fall break, and in the weeks after fall break, that I was constantly forgetting to check livejournal, let alone post.  And by the time that I remembered that I hadn't visited ( Read more... )

At last, the long awaited fall break begins tomorrow afternoon.  I have work in the archives from 10-3, and then after grabbing lunch at my apartment, I'm heading home to Birmingham.  The plan is to spend Wednesday night with my family, renew my drivers license Thursday morning, and then head to Montevallo.  I'll have a couple of hours on Thursday ( Read more... )

I have come to the conclusion that even when I don't have deadlines pressing down on me, this semester is one of never-ending work.  I read and read and read for class, and no matter how fast I read, I just don't seem to get as far ahead as I need to be.  Fall break is a week and a half away, and I really need to make a list of everything I ( Read more... )

For the past week and a half, I've been experiencing a severe drop in my level of stress thanks to the fact that I've had practically nothing due for class.  I like reading books and articles much more than I like writing, so even though I have an awful lot of reading to do, I don't mind so much.  I've got all my syllabi out and am crossing off ( Read more... )

Now that the stress leading up to last Thursday is several days behind me, I'm feeling a lot less panicky about how behind on assignments I am.  I spent the weekend in the apartment, and although I did spend the whole of Saturday with my butt on the couch watching movies on TV, I did do a lot of reading too.  I've read everything I need to read for ( Read more... )