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[bedlamsbard]

Okay, things to do on this, my last day of spring break -- a bit more than I'd been planning, as I lost all of Friday to utter hysteria, sigh.

Write tutorial paper -- modern (read: "medieval") saints; fortunately I have the reading done and a pretty clear idea of what I want to write.
Etruscans reading and online quiz -- really shouldn't take long
Start in on Shakespeare "metaphor" paper -- only three pages, doesn't need to be formal.

Ideally I'd also like to get a little bit of reading for my class on the Reformation in, though it's not absolutely necessary. I should do -- something for my honors thesis, as I've kind of stalled out there. I have to get a complete prospectus done for the class in two weeks, either on Spenser or the Borgias; I'm back to flip-flopping over how I feel about Spenser and I'm trying to set up meetings with possible committee members for the Borgia thesis. I don't know, maybe I'll just write two prospecti and see how I feel about them later. (My decision making skills clearly suck.) If I really can't handle it, I still have five days to drop the class with record; since it's a random one-credit class that's purely thesis prep, it shouldn't raise too many eyebrows when I apply to graduate school, as opposed to me dropping a major class. I don't know.

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Japan, my family -- my mother finally got a phone call through to my Auntie Michio in Fuji-shi, apparently right after the phones had gone back up. Everyone in my family is fine; it turns out that my cousin Takahiro (six months older than me, baby priest, going to university in Tokyo) was actually in Tokyo when the earthquake happened (!), but he's fine. Auntie couldn't get through to his cell, cousin Ami in New York texted Auntie, then texted Takahiro (he was fine; I don't know why calls weren't going through but texts were), then texted Auntie again -- then I texted Ami and she texted me back and I called my mother, so this is a grand tale of cross-country (TWO countries, even) and trans-Pacific texting. Unfortunately my parents don't text.

help_japan has been set up on Dreamwidth; they have a list of charities here.

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Hello, Daylight Savings Time, bane of my existence. Oh, well, my sleep schedule was going to be messed up anyway because of going from spring break back to the regular school schedule (which is not as regular as I'd like, due to my one 8:30 am class). If I'd been flying back from Washington, DST would have been lost in the time change from PST to CST, but, oh well, what can you do.

Our microwave is possessed. (Or dying. One of the two. You know. It beeps randomly. It's also closest to my room, and I'm the lightest sleeper in the apartment, so I ended up getting up at four this morning and pulling the plug.)

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I guess I should do something school-related now.

Comments

[snacky]

Yay for good news about your family!

I have a question about the saints - how are medieval saints considered modern? Are more recent saints ultramodern? :D

[bedlamsbard]

Well, that's how the week is blocked out in the syllabus -- I think it might be modern in the sense that we're talking about living saints, not martyred ones or ones that lived hundreds of years before the writing. So not necessarily modern in the sense that they were canonized in the last century or so, but modern in the sense that they were contemporary to whoever was writing about them. (We've got three obscure ones -- Christina of Stommeln, Lukardis of Oberweimar, and Douceline of Digne -- and one very well-known one, Francis of Assisi.)

[cofax7]

Texts get through when calls don't because it's a much smaller amount of data when the network is overwhelmed.

[bedlamsbard]

That makes sense! I was wondering about that.

[cofax7]

Also, to send a text, you only need the connection to last for like a second, right?

[bedlamsbard]

True! Good to know.

[angel_negra]

I'm glad your family is okay. *hugs*

[snacky]

Ah, thank you! That makes more sense!

[bedlamsbard]

It threw me for a minute, too!

[bedlamsbard]

So am I! Thanks, hon.