Welp, I suppose it's time for my monthly update.

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Lots of stuff has gone down since my last post. I never meant to go this long without updating, really.

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So as it turns out, tonight is the second class of the semester. Guess what. The prof is out of town, and I got roped into teaching. Which, of course, has me in mild freak-out mode. akllfkhkdjsghjksdf. Gods help me, I hate this.

Not that I can't do it, just how wound up and stressed out I get immediately beforehand.

Class is in 45 minutes.

Eep.

Not yet, at least. And y'all get a loooong update to make up for it. Lots of rambling on about academic nothings, mostly. Cut for those who don't feel like reading that kind of stuff ( Read more... )

So, I defend my proposal on Tuesday. Oh gods, help... Trying not to think about it too much or the feeling of the unprepared and the scary will make me lose my nerve through second-guessing myself. -_-;; Damn it, I hate this kind of crap.

No matter how often I have to give presentations, they freak me out. Massively.

ZOMFG *thud* I've finished one big (5-page) chunk of my proposal draft (out of 15). Holy hell.

I'm going to go have a (very) late lunch, in a bit, and then home to crash early.

Well, this is it. Tomorrow afternoon I fly north. It's going to be one hell of a shock to my system, that's for sure. From highs in the low-to-mid 80s down to highs that barely hit the mid-30s. Brr ( Read more... )