Seriously, the second this is all over I'm heading to the library to get some hardcore books about theory. It feels like so long since I've read a scholarly book that wasn't a)about lesbians or NASA and/or b) merely skimmed and pulped up for important chunks of information. It will be sooo nice to curl up with a book and read it from cover to cover ( Read more... )

So I guess the chances of me almost-failing my American history class are pretty good. I don't know. I don't think the stuff I'm going to string together for my final paper will be worth much. Sucks, because I really like my prof, and I think he thought well of me ( Read more... )

Every day it just gets harder and harder to drag myself to my desk and start working. I really need to entrench myself this weekend, too, since I want to have two (2) completed twenty-page drafts by Monday if possible, as well as a solid portion of my twenty-page reading journal. And then there's my big scary nebulous U.S. history paper, which is ( Read more... )

Thanks, Globe General Agencies, for your friendly 24-hour notice that you are going to be inspecting our apartment. Without it, we would have squandered perfectly good time that we could have spent cleaning with something useless, like, oh, I don't know, writing our goddamn papers.

Why yes, that was the sound of my head exploding. Why do you ask? It ( Read more... )

woke up this morning and thought i heard geese outside my window. upon reflection, it was in fact a crow. i think my sleep-addled mind was just reflexively grasping for any sign of spring. but that's all right, anyway. the corvidae are my kind of people, and geese are not known for hanging out in osborne village.

besides, today the sun proved that ( Read more... )

I hate getting to that point where I can't even look at the links to documents I'm working with without wanting to puke. It's that wonderful mixture of having worked so much I can't think anymore (which for me, is not a lot) and the guilt of not working more. I just want it over ( Read more... )

My brain's plan for today was to get up early and get several hours of research in before trotting off to class ( Read more... )

Today, I went to a talk by one of my favourite academics and lots of people came. Afterwards, there was one of those giant salmon mousses in the shape of a fish that haven't existed since the seventies, and lots of free liquor. This was good ( Read more... )

I'm still here, faithfully helping to keep our levels of CO2 production up ( Read more... )

I'm so frustrated.

I'm almost certain it's the medication I've been on for the last few months; one of the common side effects is depression. I honestly had no idea what it felt like to be depressed before. Anytime I've ever been upset, it's always been about something very specific, and I've always been able to shake it off in a day or two. This ( Read more... )