45 minutes ago, I had a passing desire to find my hardback copy of Jane Eyre. After forty five minutes of stumbling on a ridiculous amount of high school era detritus, I have still not found my edition of Jane Eyre, which is a shame, as it was a lovely copy with pretty illustrations and typeset nicely. I must have lent it to someone way back when, ( Read more... )

Wheee Dreamwidth open beta! I have a paid account now, which pleases me as I get all of my icons here now too. And with extra space to spare! Also extremely helpful, the icon import feature; I wasn't looking forward to doing it manually. Anyway, open beta also means I have (5) invite codes to give out, so let me know if you'd like one ( Read more... )

This always happens to me come Fall finals time: I suffer a sudden, tragic lack of motivation to do any work at all. There are a variety of reasons for this: it sucks coming back after Thanksgiving break, my grades are always good enough that finals and final papers won't make or break my grade, the barrage of papers just before Thanksgiving tires ( Read more... )

Highlight of the day: getting my Intellectual History paper back! No grade yet, as apparently the last few problem papers and grading rubric need to be finalized, but my awesome GSI had ours finished with comments today, which was seriously impressive. Hilariously, he walked in and plopped the whole huge stack of papers down with a faintly manic, ( Read more... )

I'm a little over halfway done with my Classics paper, and incapable of working on it anymore tonight. I have, of course, reached that point where I hate everything I'm writing and am convinced it makes no sense. This happens every time, and every time, I still get an A. Like that populism paper for my Latin American history class I was convinced ( Read more... )

My final paper for Classics is due on Friday, omg. I swear to God, I did not think it was due so soon! On the plus side, I've thought about it and researched for it so much that it should come together fairly quickly. I am in fact in the library right now virtuously putting assorted bits of research together in preparation for getting down to the ( Read more... )

I have done as much of my paper as I'm going to do tonight. The last two pages are just going to have to be finished in a mad rush tomorrow morning before class. I WRITE BEST UNDER PRESSURE, OK. Also, two pages in two hours is cake considering I've written 8-10 longhand in the same amount of time.

( NEW HOUSE TONIGHT )

So Scrivener is basically the best thing ever for research papers. And really, really flexible in terms of how you can use it to best suit your needs. And I guess I should note that it's also quite intuitive once you get used to the fact that it's not a word processor. I've just gotten so used to intuitive programs on the Mac that I take it for ( Read more... )

I had some weird dreams last night. I dreamed that I was on America's Next Top Model (yeah, I don't even know), and that I kind of sucked (duh). The first photo shoot was a swimsuit photo shoot, and I basically rolled around on the sand a bit and made fake sexy faces or whatever. Tyra made disapproving noises, and I remember not really caring about ( Read more... )

I'm tired, and in a terrible mood. *sigh* It happens. Considering some of the totally irrational rage I had today, I'm thinking hormones and that time of the month ( Read more... )