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Apr. 28th, 2010 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardThings that suck: waking up at three in the morning with (a) horrid, horrid cramps and having to figure out where the hell I left the ibuprofen and (b) THE SQUEALING DRYER FROM HELL GOING.
The dryer eventually stopped, the painkillers eventually kicked in, and I went back to sleep, but damn, that half-hour or so before I admitted that, no, I really needed to get up and find the ibuprofen, and the other half-hour before it kicked in really sucked.
On the bright side, period-pain? So makes me aware that yes, I needed the extension, and now I am even thinking coherently about the paper! It is on Malinda Lo's novel Ash and how it interacts with and transforms "Cinderella" and (on another another level; Maria Tatar classifies them as similar story-types) "Donkeyskin."
Less happily: classes are over, am on two-day study period (how long do y'all's schools usually give for your study period?), but won't be able to study at all because I have two papers, the fairy tale paper and the Spenser paper, but then I can study on Friday because my first two finals are on Saturday. Then I have one on Sunday, Monday off, and one each on Tuesday and Wednesday, and I am flying back on Thursday -- oh, shit, I need to e-mail my RA because I'm leaving campus before 8:00 am. (9-something flight, I think; my mother has to go into Seattle to get a new passport at the Japanese consulate, so she is coming to meet me at the airport! I am excited.)
Need to start packing up boxes, but papers first. Well, breakfast first.
Oh, in other news, I finally declared for my Classical Studies major! So I am now officially (well, when the paperwork goes through) a MEMS-Classical Studies double major, which I still think mostly makes it sound like I can't figure out what time period I want to concentrate on, but at least it's a fairly natural progression. I had to go in yesterday to meet with my undergrad advisor, who I had first semester freshman year for Ancient Greek Tyranny and Democracy, and I'm not sure if she remembers me or not, but she is adorable and I like her and she has the same surname as my roommate (they are not related). Also, she was stuck in London because of The Volcano, so there are "Meg Vs. The Volcano" posters up on her office door. I am tentatively considering applying to go abroad to either Rome or Athens in spring 2011 (or there are a couple of schools in the UK that offer only a spring semester), but that means I have to deal with the Office of Study Abroad, which was absolutely horrible to Chicago, who's going to London for her junior year.
The dryer eventually stopped, the painkillers eventually kicked in, and I went back to sleep, but damn, that half-hour or so before I admitted that, no, I really needed to get up and find the ibuprofen, and the other half-hour before it kicked in really sucked.
On the bright side, period-pain? So makes me aware that yes, I needed the extension, and now I am even thinking coherently about the paper! It is on Malinda Lo's novel Ash and how it interacts with and transforms "Cinderella" and (on another another level; Maria Tatar classifies them as similar story-types) "Donkeyskin."
Less happily: classes are over, am on two-day study period (how long do y'all's schools usually give for your study period?), but won't be able to study at all because I have two papers, the fairy tale paper and the Spenser paper, but then I can study on Friday because my first two finals are on Saturday. Then I have one on Sunday, Monday off, and one each on Tuesday and Wednesday, and I am flying back on Thursday -- oh, shit, I need to e-mail my RA because I'm leaving campus before 8:00 am. (9-something flight, I think; my mother has to go into Seattle to get a new passport at the Japanese consulate, so she is coming to meet me at the airport! I am excited.)
Need to start packing up boxes, but papers first. Well, breakfast first.
Oh, in other news, I finally declared for my Classical Studies major! So I am now officially (well, when the paperwork goes through) a MEMS-Classical Studies double major, which I still think mostly makes it sound like I can't figure out what time period I want to concentrate on, but at least it's a fairly natural progression. I had to go in yesterday to meet with my undergrad advisor, who I had first semester freshman year for Ancient Greek Tyranny and Democracy, and I'm not sure if she remembers me or not, but she is adorable and I like her and she has the same surname as my roommate (they are not related). Also, she was stuck in London because of The Volcano, so there are "Meg Vs. The Volcano" posters up on her office door. I am tentatively considering applying to go abroad to either Rome or Athens in spring 2011 (or there are a couple of schools in the UK that offer only a spring semester), but that means I have to deal with the Office of Study Abroad, which was absolutely horrible to Chicago, who's going to London for her junior year.
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Date: 2010-04-28 08:06 pm (UTC)Your week sounds less than fun, but at least the semester's almost over!