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i post a lot on lj when it is finals time. that is ok. i am feeling great, real great. i have just completed my paper entitled "Body Hair Removal and the Art of Becoming a Woman" about the history and social implication of body hair removal and the hairless ideal for women. i am happy. this paper has been bugging me for a long time, i needed to write it, but i just could not. i feel like i did a pretty good job. i have to maybe do one more editing (especially on the ending) but overall, i like it. i even made a cover (which i rarely do) with a photograph of a naked woman doing a marilyn monroe pinup pose...except she has a beard and armpit hair. i found it in my book and it was quite intriguing.
i feel like with the paper done i can start to get on with my life. i still have two exams and a statistics project to do, but the work for those is nowhere near as mentally exhausting as it was working on my gender challenge. actually, i will be looking forward to doing stats. instead of analyzing social norms, what i do is either right or wrong. and that is a good break to have from normal sociology work.
this semester has been a really hard semester for me emotionally, but i am glad it happened. i have dealt with my boyfriend being on another continent, and with the semi-loss of some friends but i have come out of it a better person. more real to myself and others, i hope.
i feel really ahead, now. tomorrow i will spend studying for my monday exam and working on my stats final, so that i can get it finished and handed in before wednesday. then i will be able to spend my last few days here relaxing, which sounds fantabulous. by relaxing, i also mean organizing my room/packing up/unburying my car from what snow it will be under next...3-5 inches they say for tomorrow..
i don't know whether or not to have a big party for my twenty-first birthday. maybe i will just sit next to the fire with a glass of wine. not like i couldn't do that before. oh, who cares.
if people describe you as "out of control" is that a bad thing? that is what somebody told my apartmentmate that i was. i think i kinda like it.
i feel like with the paper done i can start to get on with my life. i still have two exams and a statistics project to do, but the work for those is nowhere near as mentally exhausting as it was working on my gender challenge. actually, i will be looking forward to doing stats. instead of analyzing social norms, what i do is either right or wrong. and that is a good break to have from normal sociology work.
this semester has been a really hard semester for me emotionally, but i am glad it happened. i have dealt with my boyfriend being on another continent, and with the semi-loss of some friends but i have come out of it a better person. more real to myself and others, i hope.
i feel really ahead, now. tomorrow i will spend studying for my monday exam and working on my stats final, so that i can get it finished and handed in before wednesday. then i will be able to spend my last few days here relaxing, which sounds fantabulous. by relaxing, i also mean organizing my room/packing up/unburying my car from what snow it will be under next...3-5 inches they say for tomorrow..
i don't know whether or not to have a big party for my twenty-first birthday. maybe i will just sit next to the fire with a glass of wine. not like i couldn't do that before. oh, who cares.
if people describe you as "out of control" is that a bad thing? that is what somebody told my apartmentmate that i was. i think i kinda like it.