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Well, I've registered for next semester's classes. There are two things I can't register for yet -- Greek 1010, because I forgot to fill out the language placement form until last night and I can't register until I get placed, and the honors thesis, which I have to do in the department; I don't know if I get to do that now or wait until I've turned in the prospectus. I shall e-mail the head of the MEMS program to find out!

I'm going to end up with a course overload -- not because I need to fit the classes in all at once, because I don't, but because there are things I want to take. Also because I think it might be kind of weird if I apply for a grad program and the only classes I took senior year are languages, the public service, and the honors thesis. (Seriously, that would be all I needed to fill the minimum number of credits to be a full time student and graduate on time.) I'm not at overload YET, because I can't register for Greek, but I will be when that clears. Need to check with my advisor that I can do that.

I was running degree audit this morning, after I registered, and I think I could actually pick up a third major in history with minimal difficulty. If not a major, at least a minor. I shall e-mail the undergraduate director of the history department to find out! (See, I've taken a lot of history classes for MEMS and Classics, and I have way more credits in Classics than I need for the major because Greek and Latin count too, which means I could put some of those classes towards the history major, and have I mentioned that I have filled all my major requirements except for the capstone/honors thesis? I literally only need two more classes to graduate, the capstone and my public service. So I might as well pick up the third major, since otherwise I'm just shelling out a fuckton of tuition to graduate with Latin honors and get another year of language study...)

I also really want to take Chaucer; I'm reasonably certain that if I just keep taking an English class each semester I can pick up an English minor. (I only need five classes for the major; I have six right now, but four of them are going towards the MEMS major and only one can count for both. So three classes down, and if I take one more each coming semester...) And I like English classes. *shrug*

*stares at history webpage* I spend a lot of time wondering how often they update this site. I have a feeling it's not often, as a lot of time what they say on one page contradicts what they say on another. Do I contact the chair, the director of undergraduate studies, or the associate chair?

Oh! Perhaps I should list the classes I registered for:

CLAS 3020: High Roman Empire
ENLS 4450: Chaucer (Honors)
HISA 6970: Later Medieval Spain (seminar)
LATN 2010: Intro to Literature
HISU 6932: New Orleans Hidden History (seminar)
w/ HISU 6891: 20 hours of service learning (public service)

That's only sixteen hours, but Greek will be four and the honors thesis will be another three, which puts me at way over the maximum (19 hours), but...well. *shrug* I'll see what my advisor says.

an Announcement! cleverly hidden in the middle of this post.

Things I have figured out: jam jars of the appropriate size make really good juice glasses. As a result, I have been drinking a lot of juice the past two days -- two ice cubes, half a bottle of pineapple orange juice or some kind of pomegranate blend, and I'm immediately transported to a tropical beach in Thailand. I know. That's not where you thought I was going with that sentence. (You know, I have actually been to a tropical beach in Thailand, so it's not actually nonsensical.) It makes me happy. :)

Also, good news! I have made a DECISION, y'all: I am going to England this summer! (On the fourth of July. This amuses me in ways that I cannot articulate. Well, the program starts on the fourth, anyway, and goes on for a month. What's England like in July?)

I'm excited! And also kind of worried that the program will decide they've made a mistake and say, "Sorry! Spots all filled!" But I (well, my mother) wired the deposit and everything, so. It would kind of suck if they changed their minds.

In other news, the last two forms for my financial aid application have not yet arrived at Financial Aid, which makes the anxiety come back since the deadline is on Friday. I probably should have walked them into the damn office instead of mailed them, but I didn't, and now I don't have anything to do except wait. And hope they get them before Friday. (This is kind of a recurring theme in my life.)

And now, a final question. Does anybody have a link where I can ahem-ahem The Borgias 1.03? I though it would be up on iTunes and I was all prepared to pay actual legit money for it, and then...not so much. (And I can't torrent at my uni, so.) ETA: Taken care of, thanks!

And now all my juice is gone, and I am cold and off to make tea.