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Jan. 2nd, 2015 09:28 pmFor some reason it never occurred to me to do a round-up/new year post until I started scrolling down my reading page, which, since I'm not on DW very much any more, I only check every couple of days normally. Part of the reason for that is that I am, as ever, still in the education system; for me I can't untangle "new year" from "first day of school", whether that comes in August (Tulane), September (Ellensburg), or October (Leicester). So for me, right now this still feels like the mid-point of the year, not the start of a whole new one.
That said, my birthday is in ten days and I am pretty depressed about it already. My birthdays have traditionally been, uh...not awful, but not great, either. This year, once again, the first day of spring term falls on my birthday, which means I have to get up at six am and go to Greek and then make sure I'm registered for all my classes, as I have to do Greek as an independent study and for some reason the system won't let me register for my classical civ class. (It's, um, Building the City of Rome, I think. Normally I'd take Law & Society, but I don't want to take two classes with that prof (who's teaching Latin 6000 this term), even if one of them is about one of my favorite things ever. I like the other prof slightly better.)
I'm also supposed to be volunteering at + attending a conference in about a week, and I'm...not very happy about that, either. I just want to spend that weekend sulking about my birthday and going back to school and everything, but this is technically my field, so...
Also Gambit still isn't finished and I'm kind of panicking because it's so close to the end (maybe ~25K to go) that now I'm freaking out about whether or not I can stick the landing. Traditionally not one of my strengths.
...I feel like I only come on DW to complain and post fic updates these days.
Also, damn, I just remembered that I have to take my leather jacket to a tailor, since the stitches tore out on the shoulder and I don't want to fuck around with fixing leather myself. UGH.
That said, my birthday is in ten days and I am pretty depressed about it already. My birthdays have traditionally been, uh...not awful, but not great, either. This year, once again, the first day of spring term falls on my birthday, which means I have to get up at six am and go to Greek and then make sure I'm registered for all my classes, as I have to do Greek as an independent study and for some reason the system won't let me register for my classical civ class. (It's, um, Building the City of Rome, I think. Normally I'd take Law & Society, but I don't want to take two classes with that prof (who's teaching Latin 6000 this term), even if one of them is about one of my favorite things ever. I like the other prof slightly better.)
I'm also supposed to be volunteering at + attending a conference in about a week, and I'm...not very happy about that, either. I just want to spend that weekend sulking about my birthday and going back to school and everything, but this is technically my field, so...
Also Gambit still isn't finished and I'm kind of panicking because it's so close to the end (maybe ~25K to go) that now I'm freaking out about whether or not I can stick the landing. Traditionally not one of my strengths.
...I feel like I only come on DW to complain and post fic updates these days.
Also, damn, I just remembered that I have to take my leather jacket to a tailor, since the stitches tore out on the shoulder and I don't want to fuck around with fixing leather myself. UGH.