A year ago, I was going to graduate American University with University Honors in Literature.

Six months ago, I was going to graduate American University with University Honors in Literature.

Heck, three months ago, I was going to graduate American University with University Honors in Literature.

Today? Today I gave Professor Noble my thesis. ( Read more... )

GARGBL BURNED OUT ON ACADEMIA CAN'T CONCENTRATE ON FUCKING SIX PAGE PAPER MUCH LESS ON EIGHTEEN-PAGER MUCH LESS ON THESIS ARGUH!

I'm calling it "Good enough for government work".

Time for a nice, lengthy nap. And then maybe some ramen. Like, two packets of the stuff. Because I am famished.

mmm... something edible

Seven or eight pages out of ten-to-twelve, plus a complete Bibliography. And I've got almost six hours before class, enough time to finish the paper, fix some minor errors and maybe paper over the major ones, get some sleep, get some food, get some coffee, and then get a gun to shoot myself with if I ever put myself in this fucking position again..
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The paper I'm currently a fifth of the way through (I'm going to do it! Yay!) is a paper about the interplay of Christianity and Islam in North Africa over the past two thousand years.

In theory, anyway. In practice, at the moment, it's an introduction and half the history of the Coptic sect, but that's not really why I'm here today.

I'm here today ( Read more... )

More than twenty four hours later than (thirty six hours ago) I'd told myself I'd have it done, I have at last finished my comparison between "The Black Internationale" and Watchmen.

Now, I've got nothing to finish due for tomorrow, besides...

... Aw, crap.

Who needs sleep?

I'd wanted to at the least finish my Modernism paper today (by biologic days), so that I could spend all of tomorrow (by biologic days) working on my bloody Civilizations of Africa research paper.

I'm still two pages (and a couple citations) short. And I'm exhausted.

Tomorrow is not going to be pleasant.

It's becoming apparent, the way my Will-save ( Read more... )

So, things seem to be balancing out today.

Good: It snowed today! Eeee! I haven't seen snow since winter of 2005-2006, not counting that one day in Beijing, which you shouldn't because acid isn't water.
Bad: My shoes, it seems, are not made for snow. I'm not looking forward to going outside. Espeically since it's snowing again.

Good: Sara gave me a ( Read more... )

... I swear to God, I don't know how I'm going to pull off next week.

Things baked from scratch over the past week or so: four (two loaves of sourdough bread, one pumpkin pie, one loaf of pumpkin bread. Because, y'know. Had to do something with the extra pumpkin)

Photos taken: 164.

Time spent on the phone with Sara: Couple hours

Animals made out of vegetables: eight?

Dishes washed: thousands

Hours I've spent raking ( Read more... )