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Land of the (Brain) Dead
Mar. 11th, 2010 03:06 pmThings that I have not done in the month good god since I posted last:
Saved the multiverse from the dread might of Darkseid using only my wits and the power of Freddie Mercury
Founded an order of suburban ninjas pledged to avenge themselves on anyone who breaks the noise restrictions in the dormitories
Won a Pulitzer Prize for my scathing yet poetic post-structuralist novel on the lives of itinerant canoe-ers
Things that I have been doing:
Watching the first three seasons of Highlander in the span of a week and a half in a fit of adolescent nostalgia. And subsequently realizing that while my appreciation of Adrian Paul's aesthetics is undamaged by time, I now have a much deeper dramatic and flaily love for Richie and his adorable puppy-ness.
Alternating between spending obsessive amounts of time playing D&D Online and spending obsessive amounts of time playing Dragon Fable.
Having very angry feelings toward DC about events in a certain comic that shall not be named because just thinking about makes me shake with indignantly disgusted bitterness all over again
Making slow but steady progress on my Help_Haiti story on the rare occasions I surface long enough from under a sea of classwork to do creative writing (now ~2000 words and Chekov is about to throw a bitch-fit and start stripping).
Writing a truly ludicrous number of papers on the use of social media technology in contemporary/near-contemporary cyberpunk fiction, Gawain and the Green Knight as a morality play on keeping your word as a chivalric virtue, veiling by women in Bedouin tribes, and Torchwood.
Honestly, this quarter has been...well, really good in that I adore all my classes passionately and I'm reasonably sure I'm going to pass everything (my big hurdle is always that point where I get all AAAAAHCAN'TCOPE and just don't turn any of my final papers in at all, but I turned my last paper in today so no matter how I do on the actual exams I made it through that), but's it's just like things got incredibly hectic around midterms and then never let up at all. Tons of reading, lots of non-paper assignments amidst the big couple of papers, and very little free time for me to do anything that required my brain to be on. So I am sorry for dropping off the face of the planet, my dear flist!
Next week I have every single final exam on the same day. Two in-class written finals, one take-home final, and a writing portfolio, all scheduled for Wednesday, which is going to suck brass monkey balls. But then I will be done and then I will be home and then I will have a whole week and a half to sleep and read and get caught up on writing and the other non-urgent stuff I've been ignoring. I am very much looking forward to it. Especially the part where I will be asleep.
Saved the multiverse from the dread might of Darkseid using only my wits and the power of Freddie Mercury
Founded an order of suburban ninjas pledged to avenge themselves on anyone who breaks the noise restrictions in the dormitories
Won a Pulitzer Prize for my scathing yet poetic post-structuralist novel on the lives of itinerant canoe-ers
Things that I have been doing:
Watching the first three seasons of Highlander in the span of a week and a half in a fit of adolescent nostalgia. And subsequently realizing that while my appreciation of Adrian Paul's aesthetics is undamaged by time, I now have a much deeper dramatic and flaily love for Richie and his adorable puppy-ness.
Alternating between spending obsessive amounts of time playing D&D Online and spending obsessive amounts of time playing Dragon Fable.
Having very angry feelings toward DC about events in a certain comic that shall not be named because just thinking about makes me shake with indignantly disgusted bitterness all over again
Making slow but steady progress on my Help_Haiti story on the rare occasions I surface long enough from under a sea of classwork to do creative writing (now ~2000 words and Chekov is about to throw a bitch-fit and start stripping).
Writing a truly ludicrous number of papers on the use of social media technology in contemporary/near-contemporary cyberpunk fiction, Gawain and the Green Knight as a morality play on keeping your word as a chivalric virtue, veiling by women in Bedouin tribes, and Torchwood.
Honestly, this quarter has been...well, really good in that I adore all my classes passionately and I'm reasonably sure I'm going to pass everything (my big hurdle is always that point where I get all AAAAAHCAN'TCOPE and just don't turn any of my final papers in at all, but I turned my last paper in today so no matter how I do on the actual exams I made it through that), but's it's just like things got incredibly hectic around midterms and then never let up at all. Tons of reading, lots of non-paper assignments amidst the big couple of papers, and very little free time for me to do anything that required my brain to be on. So I am sorry for dropping off the face of the planet, my dear flist!
Next week I have every single final exam on the same day. Two in-class written finals, one take-home final, and a writing portfolio, all scheduled for Wednesday, which is going to suck brass monkey balls. But then I will be done and then I will be home and then I will have a whole week and a half to sleep and read and get caught up on writing and the other non-urgent stuff I've been ignoring. I am very much looking forward to it. Especially the part where I will be asleep.