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Mid-Term Update

Finished my paper for Contemporary Drama at like 6:30 a.m. on Thursday. Slept until 10:30, went to class and took my Contemporary Drama mid-term.

Got home at 3:30 p.m., ate a meal at 4:00, slept from roughly 5:30 to 8:30.

Woke up, spent a little sanity time. Now I’m working on a paper for Film Appreciation.

I’m shooting for 8 hours of sleep tonight. Wish me luck!

EDIT: 2:31 a.m. on Friday. Paper complete! 8+ hours of sleep, here I come.

4:10am at Old Town Donut Shop
Mid-terms. Am I doing it right?

4:10am at Old Town Donut Shop

Mid-terms. Am I doing it right?

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Did you ever wonder what the beginning of Beowulf sounds like in Old English?

Well, you don’t have to wonder anymore, because I had to record myself reading it for my Historical Linguistics class. I, uh, think I’m pronouncing things right.

3:00am. Still awake.

I’m watching Little Women and taking notes on the director commentary so I can write this 800-word paper about said commentary for my Film Appreciation class.

It’s not like this is a difficult assignment, or really that it’s that time-consuming. Basically, I should stop procrastinating. But we all know that I won’t.

That said, if I were in Warrensburg right now, I’d probably be taking a sanity break and someone would be enjoying brownies with me. So here I am in St. Louis. A different kind of sane, but probably more productive.

EDIT: The 4:13am update.

I finished the movie. 900 Words later, it’s time to sleep. I think I can still get seven hours if I fall asleep now.

I am not very good at this whole: speak in middle english thing. Vowels are beyond me.

(via a-eliz)

Historical Lingustics. Woo!

On Mondays and Wednesdays, I have a four-hour break between classes. All I want to do is fall asleep in the library, but I feel pretty awkward sleeping in public. The third and fourth floors are less populated, but I don’t get a wi-fi signal up there, so I would have to pack up my things and change floors when I want to study/sleep.

Summary: I’m so tired.

pedrosanchez:

can’t handle myself. marlon brando’s wardrobe in on the waterfront, and the way he carries himself in that movie, and how he interacts with eva marie saint….nope, can’t handle it. i mean, if some guy came up to me the way he came up to her, and talked the way he did, i’d be sold, enough is enough! i’m yours.

I watched this movie in Film Appreciation on Friday!

pedrosanchez:

can’t handle myself. marlon brando’s wardrobe in on the waterfront, and the way he carries himself in that movie, and how he interacts with eva marie saint….nope, can’t handle it. i mean, if some guy came up to me the way he came up to her, and talked the way he did, i’d be sold, enough is enough! i’m yours.

I watched this movie in Film Appreciation on Friday!

alayman:

I LOVE my school!

Jealous.

alayman:

I LOVE my school!

Jealous.

I don’t know my way around campus at Webster.

My schedule this semester:

  • Film Appreciation
  • Worlds of Romance
  • Contemporary Drama
  • Historical Linguistics: History of the English Language
  • Learning Strategies

Learning Strategies… because I guess I haven’t figured out how to learn yet. I’m stoked about Contemporary Drama though. The first play we’re reading is “Doubt”. Worth noting: three of my classes are in a house.

I have a three hour gap between classes on Monday and Wednesday. Looks like the library and I are going to become BFFs.

Also, my GPA last semester was a 3.12. Not my best work, but oh well; I’m a senior by credit hours, and I have that mostly-worthless AAT degree completed.

I just finished and submitted my final research paper for the semester. I’m ecstatic! Joyous! Relieved!
Otis, however, remains unimpressed.

I just finished and submitted my final research paper for the semester. I’m ecstatic! Joyous! Relieved!

Otis, however, remains unimpressed.

Jack: We may not be the best people.
Liz: But we’re not the worst.
Both: Graduate students are the worst.
I hate presentations.

jdlayman:

Why I was an engineer:

sosafe:

patrickwilson:

After my group presentation earlier this week, the 15 minute (25 minute?) presentation/lecture I gave Wednesday evening on “Vampirism as an Analogue for Rape Culture” and the two presentations I’m giving on Thursday—one on Gabriel García Márquez and one on Generalized Anxiety Disorder—I’m going to be officially done making presentations for the semester.

Four presentations in a week sucks.

I feel your pain, i had six papers, a portfolio, and 4 finals in a span of 72 hours.

re: John

I chose an English major because I didn’t want to do the math.

re: Nate

That is disgusting!

I hate presentations.

After my group presentation earlier this week, the 15 minute (25 minute?) presentation/lecture I gave Wednesday evening on “Vampirism as an Analogue for Rape Culture” and the two presentations I’m giving on Thursday—one on Gabriel García Márquez and one on Generalized Anxiety Disorder—I’m going to be officially done making presentations for the semester.

Four presentations in a week sucks.

a-eliz:

haguenite: iseeellis: dailybranflakes: mentalpicture: ilovepotatoes: sarahmary: aeropuertos/renao
Natkins, cause this is the story of your life today.
I just wrote two papers that I thought were due today. They are actually due one week from today.

Oops.