I finished my final project, turning it in at exactly midnight last night (which is when it was due). Because I was an idiot who can't count, I was reformating and organizing the giant annotated list of titles when I discovered that did not have 50 as was required, but rather, 48! I had been counting on the final 15 minutes to add an index to my ( Read more... )

I finished writing my take home final for Information Storage and Retrieval last night. I actually managed to do it without completing the last 1/3 of the course readings. YA has taken over my life. But I still feel like I learned a lot in IS&R - definitely getting my money's worth, anyway ( Read more... )

This Friday's paper (which I have barely begun - yikes!) is on a genre of YA literature. The instructions for the paper are unbelievably vague, but somehow the instructor thinks they are very specific! Questions posed to her have elicited only the information that it needs to be over 10 pages. I know that I have to provide an annotated ( Read more... )

How can we OWE MONEY TO THE IRS ( Read more... )

They say this is the last storm of the season (so that means no more rain until October or November or December, probably). Thank god. And it always rains on Fridays and Saturdays - my days off. Lucky me ( Read more... )

( Stolen because I need a homework break! )

I have been working on this paper which will count for about 25% of my total grade in my YA resources class. I realize I am going completely overboard on the level of detail. This is fine for now, but maybe within 24 hours from now, I will tire of that and stop being so exhaustive ( Read more... )

I made a graph of my current weight loss and calculated how long it will be before I reach my first weight loss goal. If weight loss is mathematical, that day would arrive around September 1. I wish weight loss WAS predictable like that ( Read more... )

I have hives. I woke up with them on Sunday morning, and thought it was just a little skin irritation. As the day progressed, they got worse. When I woke up this morning (Monday), they had spread everywhere. They are all over my face, on my scalp, on my arms and hands and fingers and PALMS, stomach, chest, back, neck, and INSIDE MY EARS. I ( Read more... )

I actually got an A+ on my latest YA paper. That was a relief, because I was starting to feel like, "hmmmm. I really don't know what I could have done to improve this, and if it doesn't get an A, there's no way I can get an A in this course..."

Yes, I am nearly 31 and still NEED to get all A's. Some things never change.