My thesis advisor just ripped me a new one.

At 9:15 in the morning.

I hereby declare that any and all forcible creation of new orifices must take place after noon. I demand to be fully conscious when these things happen, goddammit.

I know it was crap, because a prospectus is supposed to be done after you've done your research, and I haven't done my ( Read more... )

I just spent ten minutes on IM with my mother trying to find out the proper possessive form of each other. Turns out it's singular, like we thought (each other's), but we wanted dictionary confirmation. Along the way we also found out that each other is supposed to be used when discussing two people, and one another when discussing three or more, ( Read more... )

Music meme taken from pirate_lass, chlorrel, and probably six hundred other people. ;)

Take your music list - put random on and write down the first line of the next 20 songs.. then leave it up to the people who read your LJ (if they can be bothered) to guess them. If not - just have 20 songs stuck in your head at once and implode.

( Catt better get #1, 'cause no one else will )

*points to subject line*

Word.

Also, I'm feeling like non-nanoing right now, so a meme I saw...somewhere...at some point.

Ask me what happens after one of my stories.

If I know or can make it up convincingly, I'll answer. ;) Seriously. I'm eating Hershey's miniatures shaped like leaves and obsessively smoothing out the wrappers. I'm always like this ( Read more... )

I think the 20-minute oral exam I just had is a karmic apology for the HELL I suffered this morning.

Nobody should ever have dates fired at them at 10:30 in the morning. And I studied the dates. I could have told you Shakespeare's lifespan (1564-1616), Queen Elizabeth the First's reign (1558-1603), the publication date of Ben Jonson's Volpone (1606 ( Read more... )

Now I have another oral defense on Wednesday. My schedule now looks like this:

8:00 Have mother call to wake me up because I don't trust myself ( Read more... )

Just so I don't forget.

Wednesday 12-1: 18th Century British oral exam
Wednesday 3-4: 20th Century oral exam
Wednesday 4-4:30: American to 1900 oral exam

And I haven't even scheduled the other three yet. I don't know why the only days they're offering are Monday and Wednesday, but Mondays are crap for me, so I'm stuck with Wednesdays. Ten bucks says ( Read more... )

I have done a lot of stupid things with computers. Once I spilled a vase of daffodils onto my laptop and then spent an hour blow-drying it. Everyone thought I was crazy. Another time I sort of dropped it, but it fell on my foot rather than the floor and didn't explode. Everyone in the library looked at me funny.

I have, however, never accidentally ( Read more... )

So I finally got the questions for America to 1900--which he left in our mailboxes, like a douche. We're supposed to pick one out of three questions and write a paper not exceeding 6 pages.

Only I can only choose between the first two, because the third one is on Uncle Tom's Cabin and we did not read Uncle Tom's Cabin in my section of the class!! ( Read more... )

So I was supposed to get my prompts for the final week of writing comps. I got the last quarter--20th century British and American--and it doesn't seem terribly hard.

I haven't gotten the questions for American lit to 1900. Which means one of two things:

1. He forgot, and is an idiot, or

2. He left them in our mailboxes instead of emailing them to us ( Read more... )