at the stupe. ordered the largest latte i've ever ordered in my life. yay for exegesis papers. sophia and i look so hard core, sitting here on a friday night with our laptops, surrounded by books and wires and papers.
and sunday morning, five am, we'll be taking off for mississippi (pronounced missippi).
it totally snowed today. did you read that? it SNOWED.
don't expect anything profound. i'm still in shock over the snow. i've written two pages, which is about half of the total. it has to be four to five pages single-spaced. but i'm going to finish (or at least basically finish) TONIGHT. wish me luck. then tomorrow, it's on to the exegesis paper!
and i almost caught frostbite today.
no foreign policy class this morning!
i am horrible at time management. i thought i was decent, but no. it's terrible. i can't cope with "small" amounts of time, like an hour and a half. i end up not doing anything because i figure that's such a short amount of time that i wouldn't get anything accomplished anyway. and now i've got two papers due a week from today that i'm FREAKING OUT ABOUT, and it may come down to using those smaller amounts of time well. not to mention the fact that coffee has become more than a crutch as this point.
and i think i'm going to spend my friday night in the library.
coolest thing today: my foreign policy class held a conference call with an official in dc who works for the national security council. it was incredibly interesting.
i'm pretty tired, but i'm working hard at getting more sleep. several people have referred to sleep recently as a spiritual gift. i don't know if i'd go that far, but it's pretty darn elusive sometimes.
i'm not really getting anything concrete for my exegesis. i'll work more tomorrow, but i'm getting kind of nervous. my goal is still this week, hopefully by friday night. and i can't believe that two weeks from today i'll have been in mississippi for several days.
swing dance was fun. mitch wore a baby blue shirt with ruffles on the front and a baby blue bow tie. from his dad's closet. with a beige tweed suit. wow. it was hilarious.
small group sleepover on saturday night was AWESOME. it was testimony night, and we all shared our life stories. i love my girls. saturday afternoon i made egg tarts with kiara and fidela for mu kappa dinner. then today (sunday) we started at 2pm and finished at 5pm with the main dish, and dinner was at 5:30. i helped. and when i say helped, i mean that i cut the carrots. and my nails got stained orange. but as soon as they started debating how much soy sauce and oyster sauce to put in, and how they had to use chinese oil and not just any oil, i stepped into an observer position. didn't know what the heck they were talking about, quite frankly.
and i've spent the last three hours reading articles on the poetic meter of the second chapter of jonah for my exegesis paper. i've decided i WILL finish that this week, and then next week will be devoted to my foreign policy memorandum. i wouldn't mind actually following through on this resolve. please pray that i'd be wise with my time -- i am so good at wasting small blocks of time that could actually be used productively.
good night.
i got a tetanus shot in my left arm last night, and now i can raise my arm to about ninety degrees, and then i start whimpering and whining. (jaridd knows what that sounds like. heck, all of you probably do.) tonight is the swing dance, which i'm mostly excited for but kind of tired, to be honest. it's been a tiring week. i haven't gotten very much sleep, mostly thanks to a certain professor who has sprung multiple extra assignments on us this week alone. i know he can probably type out a single-spaced page on the 2002 national security strategy in the space of five minutes, but it's not so easy for the rest of us. i just went running with bonnie. let's be honest -- running has never been the essence of FUN for me, even if i enjoy nature and fresh air and all that stuff. but it was pretty darn nice to be outside. today was flip-flop and t-shirt weather -- and it's the 4th of november!! yeah baby!
gonna go join the group for dinner. they just played ultimate, so i don't feel bad going all gross. i've dedicated tomorrow to hard core research for one of my papers. i've got two HUGE ones due two weeks from tomorrow, because we're leaving early for the thanksgiving trip down to mississippi. have i mentioned how excited i am about that trip??? au revoir.
so. i got some new coffee a couple of days ago. pumkin spice. with an emphasis on the spice. i had some with kir and heidi on friday night, and that night all three of us had bizarre-o dreams. what kind of spice, you may ask? i haven't a clue...
busy week ahead of me. for some reason, one of my professors insists on giving no homework for days in a row, and then informing us that we have an impossible amount for the next class period. wednesday will be busy, and there's just a lot of little things going on -- band practice, tetanus booster, meetings, dsg, a big exam, two papers to be working ahead on, and all sorts of things...
okay, so I copied this from my old friend (wow, that's actually true! it has been eight years! holy cow, claire!) claire's xanga. HILarious. with an emphasis on the HIL...(oh and just found out that charisse also has it. sorry for the redundancy to our mutual friends.) amen to 7 and 13.
A message from John Cleese to the citizens of the United States of America:
In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (excepting Kansas, which she does not fancy).
Your new prime minister, Tony Blair, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect: You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary.
1. Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.
2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix ize will be replaced by the suffix ise. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to Acceptable levels. (look up vocabulary).
3. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as US English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of -ize. You will relearn your original national anthem, God Save The Queen.
4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.
5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.
6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
7. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.
8. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
9. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) - roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.
10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.
11. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
12. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie MacDowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.
13. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).
14. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 21% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.
15. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.
16. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).
17. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 PM with proper cups, never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; strawberries in season.
Thank you for your co-operation.
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