Ugh
Today I went from really, really happy to really, really unhappy, which is always (read: never) fun. I think I'll dive into the unhappy first, though, so that I can finish on a good note.
I keep trying to force myself to get my work done, but I just feel so drained. I'm usually a procrastinator, but I don't know if it's ever been this bad. I just feel so stressed out that I can't bring myself to stop panicking for long enough to actually get anything done. So I finally managed to get a start on one of my assignments, but I have no idea how I'm going to do the other one. The one that's messing with me is on a German pop literature novel. I'm supposed to write 7-10 pages on my choice of really brainless topics (representations of childhood in the novel, for instance). I've been trying to find sources, but, well, it's pop literature from 1995, so there are really no scholarly journal articles about it. I'm seriously going to see if I can drop the class tomorrow, even though I sat through the whole semester. It was a good class and I'm glad I took it, but I don't really need it, and if I can spare myself the mess I'm going to become from writing this paper, I gladly will. On another lovely note, I'm fairly sure everyone else I know who's still in Bremen did something today, and I wasn't invited. Which is kind of annoying, but oh well. Then I checked my e-mail and discovered that I need to have a short essay prepared for September 2nd on my thesis for the spring. I have no idea what I want to write on. Fuck.
On to happy things! I discovered today that there's an internet SWAT Team that exists solely to defend Keanu Reeves. I don't know why, but I think that's just really fucking cool. For me, it just evokes a great mental image of something similar happening in real life. You know, people in an office building casually criticizing Mr. Reeves, and then a bunch of SWAT people smashing in through the windows and attacking them. So that was fun. Also, I rediscovered my love of Patti Smith, particularly her album Horses. And especially the song "Gloria." It's seriously badass.
So yeah, ups and downs.
Random quote from my boyfriend: "I know it was laughter, but it sounded like death!"
I keep trying to force myself to get my work done, but I just feel so drained. I'm usually a procrastinator, but I don't know if it's ever been this bad. I just feel so stressed out that I can't bring myself to stop panicking for long enough to actually get anything done. So I finally managed to get a start on one of my assignments, but I have no idea how I'm going to do the other one. The one that's messing with me is on a German pop literature novel. I'm supposed to write 7-10 pages on my choice of really brainless topics (representations of childhood in the novel, for instance). I've been trying to find sources, but, well, it's pop literature from 1995, so there are really no scholarly journal articles about it. I'm seriously going to see if I can drop the class tomorrow, even though I sat through the whole semester. It was a good class and I'm glad I took it, but I don't really need it, and if I can spare myself the mess I'm going to become from writing this paper, I gladly will. On another lovely note, I'm fairly sure everyone else I know who's still in Bremen did something today, and I wasn't invited. Which is kind of annoying, but oh well. Then I checked my e-mail and discovered that I need to have a short essay prepared for September 2nd on my thesis for the spring. I have no idea what I want to write on. Fuck.
On to happy things! I discovered today that there's an internet SWAT Team that exists solely to defend Keanu Reeves. I don't know why, but I think that's just really fucking cool. For me, it just evokes a great mental image of something similar happening in real life. You know, people in an office building casually criticizing Mr. Reeves, and then a bunch of SWAT people smashing in through the windows and attacking them. So that was fun. Also, I rediscovered my love of Patti Smith, particularly her album Horses. And especially the song "Gloria." It's seriously badass.
So yeah, ups and downs.
Random quote from my boyfriend: "I know it was laughter, but it sounded like death!"