Grinding on through
It's 7:40 am, and I am awake... with a headache. The idea is to try to finish quantum homework, which I started yesterday afternoon while sick, and which I haven't been able to start before then because Austin was sick. It turns out that optics homework is also due today, but there's no way in hell I can possibly accomplish that now... I sent the prof an e-mail, but I don't know if it will help anybody (it's a valid concern, being that both quantum and optics are now due Tuesday, and that's really quite straining on any given physics student).
I really hope I make it through this day... and this week. I keep telling myself that if I can just make it through a few more days or another week, it will all become okay... I don't really think that's true anymore though.
I have an amazon.com credit card. The only reason is that when you use it you get points: 3 points/$ for buying stuff on amazon.com and 1 point/$ otherwise. Well, since I buy a LOT of books on amazon for school and they are REALLY expensive, it sounded like a good idea. The reward is a $25 gift certificate for every X dollars you spend, where X is a rather large number. Anyway, I got my first certificate the other day, so I've been very eager to spend it, mostly because I've been wanting to buy this one book... so I got two more for the sake of free shipping.
On Becoming a Person - Carl Rogers
Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul - Richard Bach
The Oppermanns - Lion Feuchtwanger
The first is... a collection of essays by a humanist psychologist, I believe on the topic of psychotherapy. It gave me the warm fuzzies in high school and made me think a little bit, so I've always wanted a copy since. I'm hoping it might make me feel better about myself and the world these days...
Messiah's Handbook is a generally neat thing that I believe I had somewhere at some point but can no longer track down... although I have a copy of Illusions and my mom's Richard Bach stuff is at home (in Russian). I got it just because I want one, and it might also make me feel better, though I'm not nearly as turned on by Richard Bach these days as I used to be.
No one seems to know who Lion Feuchtwanger is. Shame on you guys. He's supposed to be really awesome, but I think he wrote some fairly dark stuff. I've been wanting to read something by him for ages, so I gave in to the temptation of buying that, but I think I'll set it aside until I'm less depressed... or... I don't know, maybe not... we'll see.
Ok, it's time for tea and quantum.
[edit 6:50 pm] If you've ever -heard- of Lion Feuchtwanger, please let me know so that I can think that you're really cool. So far, no one has, and I figured that the Americans didn't know because they're uneducated, but the Germans don't know either, so what the hell?
I really hope I make it through this day... and this week. I keep telling myself that if I can just make it through a few more days or another week, it will all become okay... I don't really think that's true anymore though.
I have an amazon.com credit card. The only reason is that when you use it you get points: 3 points/$ for buying stuff on amazon.com and 1 point/$ otherwise. Well, since I buy a LOT of books on amazon for school and they are REALLY expensive, it sounded like a good idea. The reward is a $25 gift certificate for every X dollars you spend, where X is a rather large number. Anyway, I got my first certificate the other day, so I've been very eager to spend it, mostly because I've been wanting to buy this one book... so I got two more for the sake of free shipping.
On Becoming a Person - Carl Rogers
Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul - Richard Bach
The Oppermanns - Lion Feuchtwanger
The first is... a collection of essays by a humanist psychologist, I believe on the topic of psychotherapy. It gave me the warm fuzzies in high school and made me think a little bit, so I've always wanted a copy since. I'm hoping it might make me feel better about myself and the world these days...
Messiah's Handbook is a generally neat thing that I believe I had somewhere at some point but can no longer track down... although I have a copy of Illusions and my mom's Richard Bach stuff is at home (in Russian). I got it just because I want one, and it might also make me feel better, though I'm not nearly as turned on by Richard Bach these days as I used to be.
No one seems to know who Lion Feuchtwanger is. Shame on you guys. He's supposed to be really awesome, but I think he wrote some fairly dark stuff. I've been wanting to read something by him for ages, so I gave in to the temptation of buying that, but I think I'll set it aside until I'm less depressed... or... I don't know, maybe not... we'll see.
Ok, it's time for tea and quantum.
[edit 6:50 pm] If you've ever -heard- of Lion Feuchtwanger, please let me know so that I can think that you're really cool. So far, no one has, and I figured that the Americans didn't know because they're uneducated, but the Germans don't know either, so what the hell?