I Live A Life Of Action and Adventure
Feb. 6th, 2010 07:44 pmIt liiiiives!
I just noticed that I've been on radio silence since Monday. Whoops. In my defense it's been a kind of hectic week! What I have been up to:
1. Writing a soul-crushing paper on 12th century French romance for my lit class. In proper form, I picked the one topic that allowed me to go on at length about gendered plot tropes and why the queen thinks the heroic knight is gay, which is mostly because he totally is. Lanval may be one of the earliest examples of the My Girlfriend Who Lives In Canada theme. And I got back the paper on Frankenstein and Dr. Moreau that I thought was completely inane rubbish, mostly because I didn't even pick a topic to write on until 4 in the morning, but my TA apparently disagreed, because I got a very high grade on it. Go me!
2. Researching ways to banish a spirit when sage smudging has already proven to be ineffective, as a favor to a friend who is being particularly hassled by...something. This is not exactly my area of expertise, so I've been hitting up the reference books I have here (which luckily includes my Monster Book of Spells) and relevant members of my family for any ideas of what might work. I wonder if there's a pay-able field for academic magicians?
3. Drowning in a sea of bleargh and phlegm. As it turns out, two and a half all-nighters in two weeks isn't that good for your immune system. Shocking, I know. I started getting sick while I was writing my paper, and the last three days I've just lain around my room whining about how I can't breath through my nose or get my ears to pop or taste anything. And I'm not even sick enough that I can take off class or work, so it's just pathetic all around.
4. Writing fic about Kirk being afraid to give Spock blowjobs because he thinks he'll be allergic to him. THIS IS ALL![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
colourofsaying'S FAULT I SWEAR.
I just noticed that I've been on radio silence since Monday. Whoops. In my defense it's been a kind of hectic week! What I have been up to:
1. Writing a soul-crushing paper on 12th century French romance for my lit class. In proper form, I picked the one topic that allowed me to go on at length about gendered plot tropes and why the queen thinks the heroic knight is gay, which is mostly because he totally is. Lanval may be one of the earliest examples of the My Girlfriend Who Lives In Canada theme. And I got back the paper on Frankenstein and Dr. Moreau that I thought was completely inane rubbish, mostly because I didn't even pick a topic to write on until 4 in the morning, but my TA apparently disagreed, because I got a very high grade on it. Go me!
2. Researching ways to banish a spirit when sage smudging has already proven to be ineffective, as a favor to a friend who is being particularly hassled by...something. This is not exactly my area of expertise, so I've been hitting up the reference books I have here (which luckily includes my Monster Book of Spells) and relevant members of my family for any ideas of what might work. I wonder if there's a pay-able field for academic magicians?
3. Drowning in a sea of bleargh and phlegm. As it turns out, two and a half all-nighters in two weeks isn't that good for your immune system. Shocking, I know. I started getting sick while I was writing my paper, and the last three days I've just lain around my room whining about how I can't breath through my nose or get my ears to pop or taste anything. And I'm not even sick enough that I can take off class or work, so it's just pathetic all around.
4. Writing fic about Kirk being afraid to give Spock blowjobs because he thinks he'll be allergic to him. THIS IS ALL
colourofsaying'S FAULT I SWEAR.