Mainlining caffeine is healthy, right?
Seriously, might as well set up an IV with coffee...I've had way too much of it and not nearly enough sleep and my stress level is OHMYGODHIGH.
First, let's dicuss the two hours of tv time (my attempt at relaxing) from the weekend:
Well, of COURSE some Daleks survived. *sigh*
Okay, I LOVED Winston Churchill. And the Daleks "I AM YOUR SOLLLLLDIER". In military get ups. Daleks in costume. And while I kinda went "Yeahhhhh" about the spitfires in space, I agree with a few friends that said the voice of the pilot we heard but couldn't see? Should totally have had an American accent. You KNOW Jack would have been all over that mission. I continue to really like Amy, and generally like Eleven. Bluffing with a Jammy Dodger? Perfect. BUT, Eleven yelled at the Daleks a lot. And it was unconvincing. I don't know, his anger seemed forced. Something about it bothered me. Also, being a bit of a 10.5/Handy fan, I bristled at the Doctor going off on the Daleks with "I destroyed you, blah blah blah..." and in my brain I'm going, "No, HANDY did and you exiled him for genocide, you self-rightous bastard". As for the new Daleks - I get the reference back to old Daleks. There USED to be more color variation over the years, and I like the overall size of these guys. But still, the technicolor-ness of them was a bit much. And less menacing then them all looking the same. (Of course, all I could REALLY think about during the Dalek scenes was Nick Briggs and whether he's happy to be back sitting with his microphone making funny voices). Also, I am VERY CURIOUS as to this over-arc with the cracks and Amy not remembering the Daleks and such. Next time: River Song...I have yet to form an opinion. We'll see. But WEEPING ANGELS OMG.
Okay, I NEVER, not once, watched this show before JB. I will not watch once JB is done. I don't know (nor care) who all these characters are and what's going on with them. But JB as this plotting bad guy? I love. And DISCUSSING HIS EVIL PLOTS with the very person the plot involves, in a coffee shop? GREAT. Though, at first, I was saying to K "Look, JB being JB, flirting with the kid at the coffee shop" and K said "Um, I think that's his SON" and I said "Oh. Ew."
About 6 hours of my weekend was spent studying and preparing for my additional 2 hour midterm and 2 hour scheduled "class", one Saturday night and the other Sunday night.
The midterm should have taken half an hour. MOST of the midterm took me half an hour. After all, it was just 50 multiple choice questions. But there were about 8 questions that were just NOT THINGS COVERED BY THIS CLASS or worded so poorly that I couldn't figure out WTF the question really was. I spent over an hour trying to figure out those questions and re-thinking my answers. Arg. Got my score back today. 42 out of 50. So my guesses on those 8 seem to have been off. :P Actually, I'd be curious to get the whole test back and see if it IS those 8 wonky questions I got wrong or if it was the other stuff which I thought I nailed.
Also, between Friday and Sunday morning, the Prof sent out SIX PAGES of questions and info to be prepared to talk about in our 2 hour chat. I diligently ignored my family and prepped and researched and wrote out notes. So I log in last night, we covered 2 pages of the 6, and he let us go after an hour. WTF, dude. And then this morning I find out he STILL "can't find the emails" for half the class for last weeks assignments and tests. SO MUCH FAIL. Two more weeks, new class & new prof. This is my chant.
And then I also had a two hour dance rehearsal/group meeting for Tribe, plus I'm trying to wrap up all costume sewing for Tribe, and this resulted in me being CRAZED and drafting, cutting, and sewing a bunch on Saturday AFTER all the homework and midterm, so I didn't fall into bed till 4am. Fail.
This week is due to be even more insane due to wrapping up both Mel's current ballet show and last rehearsals for MY next show, followed by a half-insane week of me finishing this first class and HAVING my show, and then after THAT, once we hit May, it should calm down to a dull roar? Possibly?
Oh, and DON'T EVEN ASK ME ABOUT WORK.
Can someone re-load my coffee IV?
First, let's dicuss the two hours of tv time (my attempt at relaxing) from the weekend:
Well, of COURSE some Daleks survived. *sigh*
Okay, I LOVED Winston Churchill. And the Daleks "I AM YOUR SOLLLLLDIER". In military get ups. Daleks in costume. And while I kinda went "Yeahhhhh" about the spitfires in space, I agree with a few friends that said the voice of the pilot we heard but couldn't see? Should totally have had an American accent. You KNOW Jack would have been all over that mission. I continue to really like Amy, and generally like Eleven. Bluffing with a Jammy Dodger? Perfect. BUT, Eleven yelled at the Daleks a lot. And it was unconvincing. I don't know, his anger seemed forced. Something about it bothered me. Also, being a bit of a 10.5/Handy fan, I bristled at the Doctor going off on the Daleks with "I destroyed you, blah blah blah..." and in my brain I'm going, "No, HANDY did and you exiled him for genocide, you self-rightous bastard". As for the new Daleks - I get the reference back to old Daleks. There USED to be more color variation over the years, and I like the overall size of these guys. But still, the technicolor-ness of them was a bit much. And less menacing then them all looking the same. (Of course, all I could REALLY think about during the Dalek scenes was Nick Briggs and whether he's happy to be back sitting with his microphone making funny voices). Also, I am VERY CURIOUS as to this over-arc with the cracks and Amy not remembering the Daleks and such. Next time: River Song...I have yet to form an opinion. We'll see. But WEEPING ANGELS OMG.
Okay, I NEVER, not once, watched this show before JB. I will not watch once JB is done. I don't know (nor care) who all these characters are and what's going on with them. But JB as this plotting bad guy? I love. And DISCUSSING HIS EVIL PLOTS with the very person the plot involves, in a coffee shop? GREAT. Though, at first, I was saying to K "Look, JB being JB, flirting with the kid at the coffee shop" and K said "Um, I think that's his SON" and I said "Oh. Ew."
About 6 hours of my weekend was spent studying and preparing for my additional 2 hour midterm and 2 hour scheduled "class", one Saturday night and the other Sunday night.
The midterm should have taken half an hour. MOST of the midterm took me half an hour. After all, it was just 50 multiple choice questions. But there were about 8 questions that were just NOT THINGS COVERED BY THIS CLASS or worded so poorly that I couldn't figure out WTF the question really was. I spent over an hour trying to figure out those questions and re-thinking my answers. Arg. Got my score back today. 42 out of 50. So my guesses on those 8 seem to have been off. :P Actually, I'd be curious to get the whole test back and see if it IS those 8 wonky questions I got wrong or if it was the other stuff which I thought I nailed.
Also, between Friday and Sunday morning, the Prof sent out SIX PAGES of questions and info to be prepared to talk about in our 2 hour chat. I diligently ignored my family and prepped and researched and wrote out notes. So I log in last night, we covered 2 pages of the 6, and he let us go after an hour. WTF, dude. And then this morning I find out he STILL "can't find the emails" for half the class for last weeks assignments and tests. SO MUCH FAIL. Two more weeks, new class & new prof. This is my chant.
And then I also had a two hour dance rehearsal/group meeting for Tribe, plus I'm trying to wrap up all costume sewing for Tribe, and this resulted in me being CRAZED and drafting, cutting, and sewing a bunch on Saturday AFTER all the homework and midterm, so I didn't fall into bed till 4am. Fail.
This week is due to be even more insane due to wrapping up both Mel's current ballet show and last rehearsals for MY next show, followed by a half-insane week of me finishing this first class and HAVING my show, and then after THAT, once we hit May, it should calm down to a dull roar? Possibly?
Oh, and DON'T EVEN ASK ME ABOUT WORK.
Can someone re-load my coffee IV?