I finished the penultimate draft a little after 4 in the morning, got some much-needed shut-eye, and got up at 10 to make revisions and to restructure a rather poorly assembled section of my argument. And now? DONE! Man, I always forget how much easier it is to string coherent thoughts when you’re not totally sleep-deprived.
I wish Word had some kind of “add this word to the Dictionary, but only for this one document” feature. That would be awesome. I wonder if OpenOffice has something like that.
I hate my paper and want to go to sleep.
I finished my math homework two hours before schedule, so to reward myself, I decided I could afford a one-hour nap. Because my brain has long since abandoned me for more temperate climes, I forgot to actually turn the alarm *on*, and I ended up sleeping for three hours. Three hours down the drain, and I’m almost more exhausted than before I started.
Now that just isn’t fair.
I am sooooooo tiiiired. And tonight’s almost certainly going to be an all-nighter. I managed to punch out three hours of sleep last night, mostly because I knew I’d need it to complete my crime cinema paper tonight. I set my alarm for 6:45, yet I naturally woke up at 6, and it wouldn’t let me go back to sleep for more than 5-minute intervals. I woke up for real at 6:13. My biological clock HATES ME.
How did it become the last week of classes already?
This Week in God-Forsaken-Me:
Monday: Figure Modeling crit
Tuesday: A bunch of two-page Crime Cinema mini-papers that I’d gotten way behind on–I turned in three this day, with two more to go for Thursday.
Wednesday: Big math project presentation at noon, Math homework I’ve only half-completed due at 5
Thursday: Crime Cinema final paper, remaining mini-papers
Friday: CSE Homework, which I’ve half-completed.
After that, I’ll sleep for a solid week, waking up briefly to go to the Body Worlds exhibit before it leaves town, catch up on the TV I missed, and start studying for exams and polishing my demo reel and internship applications.
Tues, May 2nd: Math exam at noon, writeup of Math presentation due. Also Proven Guilty released in the US!
Wed, May 3rd: Figure Modeling final crit at 10:30
Fri, May 5th: CSE final at 9 in the frickin’ morning
Yay! Veronica Mars is moved to 10:30 tonight to make room for basketball (check your local listings–it probably doesn’t apply for you), so I can record all three of my shows–House, VM, and Lost–without crazy juggling! Of course, there’s no new Lost this week, so I wouldn’t have had to do any juggling in the first place, and with the amount of work I need to get done this week, I won’t be watching any of said shows until Friday night or Saturday, but whatever. Yay!
Pratchett on Einstein, on BBC radio. It’ll only be up until Wednesday, so be sure to check it out! (thanks to Tealin for the link!)
*does the dance of 15 days until Proven Guilty*
Michael Jackson needs to stop staring at me from America: The Calendar. I’m getting seriously freaked out. *turns calendar around to face the wall*
Oh, and did anyone else notice that last Friday was labelled as “Sunday”, for some reason? Is there a joke I’m not getting, or was a typesetter fired shortly after publication?
Oh, that’s nice. A bunch of tour groups just tromped through (my roommate and I volunteered to show off our room for Penn Previews), and one of them upset my trashcan, and now there are a hundred tiny pieces of eggshell ground into the carpet. I’m going to have to borrow my GA’s vaccuum. What’s more annoying, they didn’t even bring it to my attention. I wonder when it even happened? Four groups went through in succession.
Dude, you make a mess, you clean it up, especially when you’re a guest.
Whee! Ko’s birthday festivities were a delight! Her mom sent her a huge box of candy, balloons (long worm balloons with faces and balloon animal-type balloons), an Easter egg dyeing kit, lots of chips and salsa, and bubbles! I provided an ice cream cake from Ben & Jerry’s, which I carefully labelled “Not an ice cream cake from Ben & Jerry’s” to deter suspicion. I had to smash the box a bit to cram it in our freezer and ended up duct-taping the door shut. Whatever, it worked. :D
The party itself was a blast! Ko made some delicious bean dip, which Deep hoarded, and Nikki and Johanna sought to fashion an entire wardrobe for Ko out of balloon animal balloons. She got a vest, fairy wings, a hat, and a sumo wrestler thong. Johanna made Lederhosen for herself. I discovered, to everyone’s surprise, that I was quite adept at making balloon animals! I made a poodle, then I started making a companion for her, only to have it pop on me. Part of the balloon stayed intact, though, and made a very humorous shape, if you know what I mean. :D
Later on, we brought out the cake, and I burned my fingers quite a few times trying to light all the candles: big 2-1 candles + 21 smaller candles + one to grow on. All present declared the cake to be crazy delicious, so go me!
After cake, we went our seperate ways to do work, but later in the evening, Nikki and Deep came back up to bring in Ko’s 21st birthday in a more traditional fashion. Nikki made pina coladas, each of which contained enough rum to render Jack Sparrow unconscious. I just took a sip of Ko’s and the smell completely bowled me over. Poor me: I like mixed drinks, I just loathe the taste and smell of alcohol! I guess it’s good news for my liver.
Happy Birthday to Ko, Happy Zombie Jesus Day to the Christians, and Happy April 16th to everyone else!
Lord of the Rings on TBS, featuring the most cracked-out ads ever! Downloadable here.
For some reason, I’m randomly reminded of the uproariously funny Frodo Awakens, which kills me dead every time. That and more in my list of Things That are Brilliant, which needs to be updated.