I'm completely beat. And stressed out. Between work and orchestra and somehow getting landed in the position of getting extra musicians, which, er, wasn't that easy (to put it mildly), I haven't had time to write nearly enough on my term paper. Of course I've wasted some time as well, but mostly I've been too mentally exhausted to do anything. And ( Read more... )

Guys? I just handed in my Master's thesis.

I'm writing this from my brand new, absolutely tiny notebook computer. It weighs less than a kilo, and is smaller than most of my dictionaries. It's actually not all that difficult writing on such a small keyboard, I'm kind of surprised to tell the truth. It came with a free two-month trial run of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, and to tell ( Read more... )

I now have a place to stay when I go to York. I mentioned that I'd be bringing my viola, and wondered if it would trouble anyone when I rehearsed - not only was the answer "no", but the housing director even contacted the conductor of the orchestra she plays in, so now they'll be welcoming me there. (It's times like these I love being a violist. We ( Read more... )

...I finished the first draft of a paper where I talk about revenge tragedies, with regards to the characters Hieronimo in The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet in, well, Hamlet...got notice that I have been "recommended for a place at the Masters programme in Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York ( Read more... )

So, the term started again yesterday. This year I'll be taking a linguistics course which is required if I'm going to write my Masters thesis in linguistics, as well as a literature course - political/religious/gender issues during the 1550-1660's, and how they relate to today's situation. Fun ( Read more... )

I am completely crap at guessing my grades ( Read more... )

Well, I didn't fail.

Actually, I got a B.

Can someone please explain to me why I had to rediscover Elfquest and the urge to write fanfiction just a few weeks before my exams ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I wrote. I wanted to write on my birthday (14 of April), but didn't. Oh, well. I turned 21, and not much else happened ( Read more... )