*mmm, relax. it's block break at last....
After several days of way too much stress, way too little sleep, and much crappy health, I am relieved beyond belief to say that I've finished my site report with Dan (Dan's a good partner and friend), turned in a 5 page take-home final essay about the many reasons the medieval Spains were never unified, and finished to my satisfaction my 15 page research paper which I decided to title "Toledo and the Translators: Rejuvenating the Sciences in Europe." DONE.
I must say come Thursday I did cry from stress and exhaustion over nothing one or two times. But after a nap with James Taylor's Greatest Hits on my ipod, Casey arrived, and I felt much better and could keep working, that is until it was time for all of us to go see Spiderman 3. I really almost didn't go because I was so tired, and I wanted to finish my paper. Casey said it'd be alright if we just stayed back and I did work instead, but the last few days I'd wanted nothing more than to be having fun like all my friends instead of spending every free hour writing another paragraph about Adelard of Bath or something. Though I do love me some medieval history, it was stressful, and I had been looking forward to the midnight spiderman show for a long time. So we went, and it was a riot. I really needed to relax and laugh my butt off at the ridiculous "Mask + Jazz Flute" attitude of emo spidey. And I swear, except for the whole "evil" thing, Eddie Brock IS Bryan Roush. Anyway when we got back at three, Casey and I went to the study lounge and I finished the body of my paper, leaving the intro and conclusion for Friday. We also ended up talking for a little while, which I was far too exhausted for so we cut it short for bed near 4:45 am.
Friday was much better. I was too tired when I got up at 9:30 to get ready to meet Dan at 10 to work on our site report. Casey told me just to call him, so I called Dan up and asked if we could meet after lunch, which was fine with him, and I went back to sleep, which was the best thing for me. I felt good when I woke up, and Dan and I finished the site report, unfolding the amazingly huge Acrocorinth map on the floor. Casey did sketches and I worked on my paper on and off while we finished. Then I completed my paper, read it over, and sent it into Miller. What a relief. With the two-page Works Cited (Yeah, I had a lot of sources), it ended up being 17 pages. Woosh. I'm glad its done. I don't think I've worked that hard on an assignment ever before. I'll need to edit and rewrite some of it I'm sure before I send it into grad schools as a writing sample I bet, but I'm really proud of it the way it is right now.
Casey and I relaxed, took a walk to see the progress on Clock Tower Hall,(I'm so glad it rained and washed some of that pollen out of the air...), got a brown bag, and then watched some Buffy - Yay! It was the episode that introduces Spike and Drusilla, so that was certainly a bad-ass episode and we got really into it. Gosh I love Spike. We also started downloading the first episode of Lost season three, because we just can't wait for the DVDs. That'll be fun to watch together because it's been so long for me, and we get so into it! I had a lot of money on my ratt card from a prospective student, so I treated Dan, Chelsea, and Mackenzie to a drink each and Casey and I got a pizza and fries for dinner. Yum. We then watched Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon cause Casey'd never seen it and we wanted to marvel at the fighting. It was pretty spectacular.
When they all left we decided to keep Maggie company on duty by playing the Buffy Board game! I really dislike games where I have to think and plan, but we had a lot of fun. Maggie and I played the good characters and Casey was the master and the evil characters. I swore a lot when things didn't go our way and threw stuff at Casey while he laughed, because strategy games frustrate me, but it was all in good fun. Casey wouldn't come out and fight Buffy like a man! Probably because we had explosives and the magic sword on top of Buffy's fighting abilities and we were basically amazing. Stupid minions. Anyway by the miraculous help of Joyce Summers (YES!) Maggie and I triumphed, and defeated him. I like when I win, because then both Casey and I have fun. I'll admit I am kind of a sore loser at games like this and don't have fun when I'm losing. haha. I just don't care about it enough to put as much effort and thinking into it as Casey does. I usually win by luck - like drawing Joyce. It was a lot of fun in the end.
Today we woke up to Dan and Mackenzie ready to watch Tristan and Isolde. After a lot of DVD player issues (the playstation wouldn't read the disk, and then when we borrowed the DVD player the TV played it in black and white... we moved to the lounge), we finally got it started. It's not as historically inaccurate as I initally thought, I guess I was so thrown off by the John Donne poem I was just judging everything. But Dan's still wrong about the Picts. We all enjoyed it though, Dan and Casey more than they thought they would!
Tonight: going to see a play, relaxing with my Casey, laughing, successfully convincing Casey not to join Bryce in his plan to shave his head this summer, writing in my real diary while he studies for finals, watching Lost... should be good!
I must say come Thursday I did cry from stress and exhaustion over nothing one or two times. But after a nap with James Taylor's Greatest Hits on my ipod, Casey arrived, and I felt much better and could keep working, that is until it was time for all of us to go see Spiderman 3. I really almost didn't go because I was so tired, and I wanted to finish my paper. Casey said it'd be alright if we just stayed back and I did work instead, but the last few days I'd wanted nothing more than to be having fun like all my friends instead of spending every free hour writing another paragraph about Adelard of Bath or something. Though I do love me some medieval history, it was stressful, and I had been looking forward to the midnight spiderman show for a long time. So we went, and it was a riot. I really needed to relax and laugh my butt off at the ridiculous "Mask + Jazz Flute" attitude of emo spidey. And I swear, except for the whole "evil" thing, Eddie Brock IS Bryan Roush. Anyway when we got back at three, Casey and I went to the study lounge and I finished the body of my paper, leaving the intro and conclusion for Friday. We also ended up talking for a little while, which I was far too exhausted for so we cut it short for bed near 4:45 am.
Friday was much better. I was too tired when I got up at 9:30 to get ready to meet Dan at 10 to work on our site report. Casey told me just to call him, so I called Dan up and asked if we could meet after lunch, which was fine with him, and I went back to sleep, which was the best thing for me. I felt good when I woke up, and Dan and I finished the site report, unfolding the amazingly huge Acrocorinth map on the floor. Casey did sketches and I worked on my paper on and off while we finished. Then I completed my paper, read it over, and sent it into Miller. What a relief. With the two-page Works Cited (Yeah, I had a lot of sources), it ended up being 17 pages. Woosh. I'm glad its done. I don't think I've worked that hard on an assignment ever before. I'll need to edit and rewrite some of it I'm sure before I send it into grad schools as a writing sample I bet, but I'm really proud of it the way it is right now.
Casey and I relaxed, took a walk to see the progress on Clock Tower Hall,(I'm so glad it rained and washed some of that pollen out of the air...), got a brown bag, and then watched some Buffy - Yay! It was the episode that introduces Spike and Drusilla, so that was certainly a bad-ass episode and we got really into it. Gosh I love Spike. We also started downloading the first episode of Lost season three, because we just can't wait for the DVDs. That'll be fun to watch together because it's been so long for me, and we get so into it! I had a lot of money on my ratt card from a prospective student, so I treated Dan, Chelsea, and Mackenzie to a drink each and Casey and I got a pizza and fries for dinner. Yum. We then watched Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon cause Casey'd never seen it and we wanted to marvel at the fighting. It was pretty spectacular.
When they all left we decided to keep Maggie company on duty by playing the Buffy Board game! I really dislike games where I have to think and plan, but we had a lot of fun. Maggie and I played the good characters and Casey was the master and the evil characters. I swore a lot when things didn't go our way and threw stuff at Casey while he laughed, because strategy games frustrate me, but it was all in good fun. Casey wouldn't come out and fight Buffy like a man! Probably because we had explosives and the magic sword on top of Buffy's fighting abilities and we were basically amazing. Stupid minions. Anyway by the miraculous help of Joyce Summers (YES!) Maggie and I triumphed, and defeated him. I like when I win, because then both Casey and I have fun. I'll admit I am kind of a sore loser at games like this and don't have fun when I'm losing. haha. I just don't care about it enough to put as much effort and thinking into it as Casey does. I usually win by luck - like drawing Joyce. It was a lot of fun in the end.
Today we woke up to Dan and Mackenzie ready to watch Tristan and Isolde. After a lot of DVD player issues (the playstation wouldn't read the disk, and then when we borrowed the DVD player the TV played it in black and white... we moved to the lounge), we finally got it started. It's not as historically inaccurate as I initally thought, I guess I was so thrown off by the John Donne poem I was just judging everything. But Dan's still wrong about the Picts. We all enjoyed it though, Dan and Casey more than they thought they would!
Tonight: going to see a play, relaxing with my Casey, laughing, successfully convincing Casey not to join Bryce in his plan to shave his head this summer, writing in my real diary while he studies for finals, watching Lost... should be good!