Fact: I am less freaked out about my finals than I am about starting Dust 18.
Fact: I would rather study than start Dust 18. (This should be a good thing. And yet...)
Fact: I feel an urge to switch up my icons. Some of them are very dark. I feel spring-like. Coincidentally, Dust 18 is about the beginning of spring. Strangely, it is December. (Although it feels very springlike here in lovely New Orleans. Love you, New Orleans!)
Fact: I have studied, somewhat, for my afternoon final on Friday and my (OH GOD NO) Japanese final on Monday. I have not studied for my morning final on Friday or my morning final on (OH GOD WHY) Saturday.
Fact: I am pretty sure my Japanese final is going to kill me.
Fact: I have not yet completed the Christmas shopping. The Christmas shopping requires me to go to the Quarter. I may not be able to go to the Quarter until Tuesday, after my finals and before I leave New Orleans. Unfortunately, all my friends will already be gone by then. Um, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be raped and murdered if I streetcar on down by myself, but I am still working on convincing the lizard-brain part of me of this. Also, Christmas shopping. Must do.
Random: Peter Jackson provides an interesting update on Temeraire. Large-budget mini-series? SIGN ME UP. (I like the first four novels fine. I have major, major issues with Victory of Eagles that I don't think I've ever gone into on here, and...I don't really want to read the book again to do so. Naomi Novik has said she may do as many as four more, and I have to admit I really wish that it would end with VoE. Partially because I had issues out the wazoo with VoE.)
Fact: I shall probably not get a chance to read the huge pile of books I hae checked out of the library before break. *sad*
Fact: Am desperately worried about getting application done for Junior Year Abroad in time. Am considering just doing spring semester at either Royal Holloway in England or the University of Sydney in Australia. Partially because of the worry of getting the application done in time to go abroad in the fall, partially because I'm really uncertain about getting academic references -- I don't talk in class, guys, I'm not sure my professors know who I am. The professor I would ask is on sabbatical this year. Also, my major? I haven't actually taken any classes that qualify for it, although I have four next semester, so that...doesn't look good on an application. It will look better if I go about declaring for a double major in Classical Studies, because I have a stronger background in that than I do in MEMS, but I haven't done that yet. ...also I may have screwed myself by declaring for medieval studies, because most programs require you to have 3-4 classes already taken, which counts me out unless I'm applying for, I think, spring.
(Looking at course listings at Royal Holloway: ahahahaha "Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, 1955-1968" is not available for U.S. students. I assume they expect us to already know all that information, or at least not to go abroad and study our own frakkin' history.)
*blinks* Wait, does the academic year in Australia begin in February? So theoretically I could do a whole year abroad in Australia, although I'd miss first semester of my senior year at Tulane. Also a plus: Sydney actually has a medieval studies program, so I could single in on one field of study rather than just history classes; the U.K. universities look really inconvenient that way. I find these two features very attractive. *thoughtful* I really do want to go abroad for a full year and not just a semester. I wonder if it's going to be a significant problem to miss first semester of senior year, though. I wouldn't think so, but -- for that amount of money, it's nearly a semester's worth of tuition to go abroad than to stay at Tulane for a year, I could do another semester at Tulane in fall 2012 if I had to, although I don't think the credit thing is going to be a major problem, since I came in with sophomore credits. And if I do the 4+1 program, even though I'd rather go away for grad school...hmm. *muses* This is probably the sort of question I should ask the nice people at the study-abroad office. My mother will probably just tell me to do whatever I want. I have given up on caring what my father thinks, as he wants me to go to a non-English-speaking country and also thinks my major is utterly useless.
Downside: Australia is not England and there is no![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
aella_irene. But there is an ineptshieldmaid! Also, the weather is better. I am not entirely rational when it comes to this point. See: Tulane over Wellesley.
Okay, now that I've successfully procrastinated both studying and working on Dust 18...
ETA: I like the University of Melbourne's website. I guess I should look at their academic programs...
Fact: I would rather study than start Dust 18. (This should be a good thing. And yet...)
Fact: I feel an urge to switch up my icons. Some of them are very dark. I feel spring-like. Coincidentally, Dust 18 is about the beginning of spring. Strangely, it is December. (Although it feels very springlike here in lovely New Orleans. Love you, New Orleans!)
Fact: I have studied, somewhat, for my afternoon final on Friday and my (OH GOD NO) Japanese final on Monday. I have not studied for my morning final on Friday or my morning final on (OH GOD WHY) Saturday.
Fact: I am pretty sure my Japanese final is going to kill me.
Fact: I have not yet completed the Christmas shopping. The Christmas shopping requires me to go to the Quarter. I may not be able to go to the Quarter until Tuesday, after my finals and before I leave New Orleans. Unfortunately, all my friends will already be gone by then. Um, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be raped and murdered if I streetcar on down by myself, but I am still working on convincing the lizard-brain part of me of this. Also, Christmas shopping. Must do.
Random: Peter Jackson provides an interesting update on Temeraire. Large-budget mini-series? SIGN ME UP. (I like the first four novels fine. I have major, major issues with Victory of Eagles that I don't think I've ever gone into on here, and...I don't really want to read the book again to do so. Naomi Novik has said she may do as many as four more, and I have to admit I really wish that it would end with VoE. Partially because I had issues out the wazoo with VoE.)
Fact: I shall probably not get a chance to read the huge pile of books I hae checked out of the library before break. *sad*
Fact: Am desperately worried about getting application done for Junior Year Abroad in time. Am considering just doing spring semester at either Royal Holloway in England or the University of Sydney in Australia. Partially because of the worry of getting the application done in time to go abroad in the fall, partially because I'm really uncertain about getting academic references -- I don't talk in class, guys, I'm not sure my professors know who I am. The professor I would ask is on sabbatical this year. Also, my major? I haven't actually taken any classes that qualify for it, although I have four next semester, so that...doesn't look good on an application. It will look better if I go about declaring for a double major in Classical Studies, because I have a stronger background in that than I do in MEMS, but I haven't done that yet. ...also I may have screwed myself by declaring for medieval studies, because most programs require you to have 3-4 classes already taken, which counts me out unless I'm applying for, I think, spring.
(Looking at course listings at Royal Holloway: ahahahaha "Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, 1955-1968" is not available for U.S. students. I assume they expect us to already know all that information, or at least not to go abroad and study our own frakkin' history.)
*blinks* Wait, does the academic year in Australia begin in February? So theoretically I could do a whole year abroad in Australia, although I'd miss first semester of my senior year at Tulane. Also a plus: Sydney actually has a medieval studies program, so I could single in on one field of study rather than just history classes; the U.K. universities look really inconvenient that way. I find these two features very attractive. *thoughtful* I really do want to go abroad for a full year and not just a semester. I wonder if it's going to be a significant problem to miss first semester of senior year, though. I wouldn't think so, but -- for that amount of money, it's nearly a semester's worth of tuition to go abroad than to stay at Tulane for a year, I could do another semester at Tulane in fall 2012 if I had to, although I don't think the credit thing is going to be a major problem, since I came in with sophomore credits. And if I do the 4+1 program, even though I'd rather go away for grad school...hmm. *muses* This is probably the sort of question I should ask the nice people at the study-abroad office. My mother will probably just tell me to do whatever I want. I have given up on caring what my father thinks, as he wants me to go to a non-English-speaking country and also thinks my major is utterly useless.
Downside: Australia is not England and there is no
aella_irene. But there is an ineptshieldmaid! Also, the weather is better. I am not entirely rational when it comes to this point. See: Tulane over Wellesley.Okay, now that I've successfully procrastinated both studying and working on Dust 18...
ETA: I like the University of Melbourne's website. I guess I should look at their academic programs...