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bedlamsbard1. I have felt kind of low-level nauseous all day, which is about as fun as it sounds. No idea why, of course.
2. Switched around part of my schedule for the fall, but Ancient Slavery & Society is closed and there's no waitlist available, so I'll stick with Later Medieval Spain, which ought to be awesome. Although I'll have to explain to the prof that I am not, in fact, writing my honors thesis on the Borgias. (Corollary: for some reason I still haven't seen the season finale of the Borgias. *hands*)
3. England gave me a taste for milky black tea (no sugar, please) drunk out of proper teacups with saucers, so I've been doing that. I really think I should probably get myself a bigger teapot. And possibly bigger teacups; the bad news I just bought a bunch of mugs before going to England and now I'm over the mug, unless I really just want a direct shot of tea without the ritual
3a. Corollary: Is there any really good way to clean out a teapot? I'm using loose leaves, and aside from scooping them out with a spoon into the trash and then rinsing out all the remainder, or dumping all the loose leaves into the sink and then washing the pot, is there any secret way of cleaning a teapot I'm missing?
3b. Friday reads: The Empire of Tea: The Remarkable History of the Plant That Took Over the World.
4. Yesterday I took a practice test on the GRE Quantitative Reasoning section and got 31/60. At this point I am kind of just freezing up when it comes to the math portions, which is, uh, not good. I know you don't need to have really good math scores for liberal arts programs! I just don't want to completely fail it, you know? Oh my god, I am taking the GRE in ten days, please do not let this be a disaster.
5. Quietly dreading the return to school. One: last year of undergrad, holy shit. Two: grad school applications, oh my god. Three: honors thesis, meep. Four: living with people again, *quiet sobs*.
6. There's a book I spent four weeks in England staring at lustfully but didn't buy because I kept telling myself I could just inter-library loan it when I got back to Tulane and now I really want it. (It is not that cheap on Amazon -- $34 used last I checked, so I really should have gotten it, because even at £12 and the exchange rate it wasn't that extortionate for an out of print book. *sighs* Wait! Found one for $17.95 + $3.99 shipping. *eyes lustfully*)
7. British foodstuffs I need to recreate: scones, clotted cream, flapjacks. I probably should have bought golden syrup while I was there, since it's not readily available in the U.S.
8. I am trying not to think about my textbooks for next semester. I am so tired of buying textbooks, y'all. I'm going to try and get as many of them as possible from the library this year. Although at least this semester I don't need thirty-five of them. (True. Story. And yes I bought them all. That was actually one of the semester I didn't spend $500 on textbooks, since I finally figured out that you don't buy your textbooks from the bookstore. It only took me two years.)
9. Kindle commercials piss me off.
2. Switched around part of my schedule for the fall, but Ancient Slavery & Society is closed and there's no waitlist available, so I'll stick with Later Medieval Spain, which ought to be awesome. Although I'll have to explain to the prof that I am not, in fact, writing my honors thesis on the Borgias. (Corollary: for some reason I still haven't seen the season finale of the Borgias. *hands*)
3. England gave me a taste for milky black tea (no sugar, please) drunk out of proper teacups with saucers, so I've been doing that. I really think I should probably get myself a bigger teapot. And possibly bigger teacups; the bad news I just bought a bunch of mugs before going to England and now I'm over the mug, unless I really just want a direct shot of tea without the ritual
3a. Corollary: Is there any really good way to clean out a teapot? I'm using loose leaves, and aside from scooping them out with a spoon into the trash and then rinsing out all the remainder, or dumping all the loose leaves into the sink and then washing the pot, is there any secret way of cleaning a teapot I'm missing?
3b. Friday reads: The Empire of Tea: The Remarkable History of the Plant That Took Over the World.
4. Yesterday I took a practice test on the GRE Quantitative Reasoning section and got 31/60. At this point I am kind of just freezing up when it comes to the math portions, which is, uh, not good. I know you don't need to have really good math scores for liberal arts programs! I just don't want to completely fail it, you know? Oh my god, I am taking the GRE in ten days, please do not let this be a disaster.
5. Quietly dreading the return to school. One: last year of undergrad, holy shit. Two: grad school applications, oh my god. Three: honors thesis, meep. Four: living with people again, *quiet sobs*.
6. There's a book I spent four weeks in England staring at lustfully but didn't buy because I kept telling myself I could just inter-library loan it when I got back to Tulane and now I really want it. (It is not that cheap on Amazon -- $34 used last I checked, so I really should have gotten it, because even at £12 and the exchange rate it wasn't that extortionate for an out of print book. *sighs* Wait! Found one for $17.95 + $3.99 shipping. *eyes lustfully*)
7. British foodstuffs I need to recreate: scones, clotted cream, flapjacks. I probably should have bought golden syrup while I was there, since it's not readily available in the U.S.
8. I am trying not to think about my textbooks for next semester. I am so tired of buying textbooks, y'all. I'm going to try and get as many of them as possible from the library this year. Although at least this semester I don't need thirty-five of them. (True. Story. And yes I bought them all. That was actually one of the semester I didn't spend $500 on textbooks, since I finally figured out that you don't buy your textbooks from the bookstore. It only took me two years.)
9. Kindle commercials piss me off.