Episode 5: In which I got a huge chunk of work done yesterday and now I feel like i can slack of but I really can't
The title pretty much tells it like it is. I have about 7 more pages to crank out of this paper and it's Jared's birthday so I have zero motivation to do anything except hang out with him.... but being the great person that he is... he came to the library with me and we are doing homework together. This is good... this means that I won't be spending an hour and a half walking around the library trying to avoid my homework.
I'm really hoping that i'm correct in this being a productive study session... because I have about an hour and 20 mins before his birthday dinner.
Think positive!
Episode 5: end
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Hell Week Day 1: Episode 4
Episode 4: In which my coffee is cold and my outline is amazingly detailed
It's true... my coffee is cold. :(
BUT on the bright side I'm just shy of 5.5 pages. :) I took a little break from actually writing to organize my thoughts a little better in my outline. I was starting to get worried that the paper might jump around a bit but now I think it's laid out rather nicely.
It's dark out and the 2nd floor of the library is starting to clear out a little bit. I'm thinking that within the next hour i might brave the cold weather so I can have a little change of scenery. I still have to go home and make some supper and hop in the shower... and organize myself for tomorrow. So I'm sure I'll be able to get at least a little work done while my food is cooking. I bet your smiling to yourself right now thinking that you know that I will get ZERO work done if I go to my apt... but truthfully I think you're wrong. I've got a good chunk done... and usually the part that i struggle with the most is actually sitting down and starting it... but I've clearly already done that... for 5 hours. (sad... that's like a page an hour... SOOO not what I'm used to) I think that at about 7 I might start heading over to my apt and then it's monday night so I'll pop over to Beta to have a homework date with Jared. Another change of scenery, and hey, no work tomorrow... so after XDIS... (or during XDIS) I can get some more work done.
I'm slowly trudging through this damn tunnel...
It's true... my coffee is cold. :(
BUT on the bright side I'm just shy of 5.5 pages. :) I took a little break from actually writing to organize my thoughts a little better in my outline. I was starting to get worried that the paper might jump around a bit but now I think it's laid out rather nicely.
It's dark out and the 2nd floor of the library is starting to clear out a little bit. I'm thinking that within the next hour i might brave the cold weather so I can have a little change of scenery. I still have to go home and make some supper and hop in the shower... and organize myself for tomorrow. So I'm sure I'll be able to get at least a little work done while my food is cooking. I bet your smiling to yourself right now thinking that you know that I will get ZERO work done if I go to my apt... but truthfully I think you're wrong. I've got a good chunk done... and usually the part that i struggle with the most is actually sitting down and starting it... but I've clearly already done that... for 5 hours. (sad... that's like a page an hour... SOOO not what I'm used to) I think that at about 7 I might start heading over to my apt and then it's monday night so I'll pop over to Beta to have a homework date with Jared. Another change of scenery, and hey, no work tomorrow... so after XDIS... (or during XDIS) I can get some more work done.
I'm slowly trudging through this damn tunnel...
Hell Week Day 1: Episode 3
Episode 3: In which I make Significant Progress and compare Mario Levels to Hell Week
So I'm at about 3.5 pages. Only a little over a 5th done... but still... considering what my last hour and half was like (see episode 2) another 2.5 pages is a good run. It took a little longer than I would have liked, but of course, I did have a couple distractions (courtney called, and I had to pee) but I overall I think I'm doing fine, I had a minor freak out when I realized that I only had 3 pages done and still needed 12 more and didn't know if I had 12 pages worth of stuff to talk about... (I tend to write rather concise... academic writing that is.) but i calmed myself down when I realized I still hadn't gotten to the meat of my argument yet, and still hadn't added in my source material. So I think right now that I'll be fine. Once I get to a point in this paper where I feel like I'm comfortable I need to hop on over to the FA so i can practice my music so I don't freak out tomorrow or look like an idiot during my jury on Wednesday. I'm still not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel... but at least i'm not standing at the beginning looking in with terror anymore. I need to be Mario here and jump onto the scary box that looks like it might fall into the lava and just make my way towards the end of this level as fast as I can...
Also... I got work off tomorrow which is another couple of hours to work on everything before I go out to dinner with Jared for his birthday. So that is another HUGE weight lifted off my shoulder. You'd be surprised how much those 5 hours are going to help me.
Back to the paper...
So I'm at about 3.5 pages. Only a little over a 5th done... but still... considering what my last hour and half was like (see episode 2) another 2.5 pages is a good run. It took a little longer than I would have liked, but of course, I did have a couple distractions (courtney called, and I had to pee) but I overall I think I'm doing fine, I had a minor freak out when I realized that I only had 3 pages done and still needed 12 more and didn't know if I had 12 pages worth of stuff to talk about... (I tend to write rather concise... academic writing that is.) but i calmed myself down when I realized I still hadn't gotten to the meat of my argument yet, and still hadn't added in my source material. So I think right now that I'll be fine. Once I get to a point in this paper where I feel like I'm comfortable I need to hop on over to the FA so i can practice my music so I don't freak out tomorrow or look like an idiot during my jury on Wednesday. I'm still not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel... but at least i'm not standing at the beginning looking in with terror anymore. I need to be Mario here and jump onto the scary box that looks like it might fall into the lava and just make my way towards the end of this level as fast as I can...
Also... I got work off tomorrow which is another couple of hours to work on everything before I go out to dinner with Jared for his birthday. So that is another HUGE weight lifted off my shoulder. You'd be surprised how much those 5 hours are going to help me.
Back to the paper...
Hell Week Day 1: Episode 2
Episode 2: In which I do... well... nothing for an hour and a half.
1:56- Watching youtube videos... not off to a great start
2:05- facebook
2:11- bathroom break... and then I promise... I'll start to read some of these articles!!!
2:17- Picking up first article...
2:21- Decided to write outline first to know what I'm looking for in said articles... Now working on working outline. (seriously, i'm actually doing this... that's a good start)
2:44: Outline pretty well organized. First page written. (Do you think that deserves a little nap?)
.... I need a class of wine... and a nap.
2:50 -Just resting my eyes
2:53- Going to get coffee because I feel like that will be more productive than sleeping
3:24- Well that trip took longer than anticipated...
But hey now I have coffee, sugar, 2 bottles of tea and a charged ipod. I'm reading to crank out this paper.
Episode 2: end
1:56- Watching youtube videos... not off to a great start
2:05- facebook
2:11- bathroom break... and then I promise... I'll start to read some of these articles!!!
2:17- Picking up first article...
2:21- Decided to write outline first to know what I'm looking for in said articles... Now working on working outline. (seriously, i'm actually doing this... that's a good start)
2:44: Outline pretty well organized. First page written. (Do you think that deserves a little nap?)
.... I need a class of wine... and a nap.
2:50 -Just resting my eyes
2:53- Going to get coffee because I feel like that will be more productive than sleeping
3:24- Well that trip took longer than anticipated...
But hey now I have coffee, sugar, 2 bottles of tea and a charged ipod. I'm reading to crank out this paper.
Episode 2: end
Hell Week Day 1
I'm warning you off the bat... this is going to be a long... wordy... often times whiny and repetitive series of blog posts. They will undoubtedly be super boring and frequent. That being said... i don't care if you read them or not... If i am going to stay sane through the next 8 hours or so... I'm going to need to be able to write in an unprofessional, messy, judge-free manner. You've been warned.
Episode 1: In which I find Research and Daunting List
Often times college students complain about finals week... and how they have no time eat, sleep, socialize or do anything that remotely resembles fun. Not me. Once finals week starts, I'm happy... because I can finally see the light at the end of this long, curvy, nasty tunnel of doom that is the end of the semester. The week I dread... is the week right before finals week... the last week of classes; "Hell Week." Why do I hate this week so much? As an English major... ALL of my papers are due during Hell Week, which means not only am I cramming to get all the knowledge I need for my actual finals to stick in my head... but I'm also trying to puke out dozens and dozens of papers into some sort of coherent thought. Right now... I am so disgusted by the amount of work that i have been (blatantly) putting off, that I have decided to blog about my progress so I don't feel like such a worthless human being tomorrow.
Ok I will start off this Hell week blog with my list of things that need to be accomplished by friday:
1. 15 page Capstone paper: Compare and Contrast differences between Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber with the classic Grimm's fairy tale Bluebeard.
2. Rehearse With Becca before Juries Performance on Wednesday at 12.
3. Finish memorizing music for Juries performance on Wednesday at 12.
4. 10 page paper for Criticism due Friday by midnight.
5. Pick topic for 10 page Crit paper due Friday by Midnight.
6. Xdis Evaluation paper
7. observe a group in XDIS on Tuesday so I can write my XDIS evaluation paper
8. Finish 10 page XDIS paper: Holocausts effect on Literature
9. Jared's birthday dinner Tuesday night.
Wouldn't it be nice if they gave us like 3 days off of school before finals week to be able to accomplish all of these things and not still have to worry about attending all of my classes... in which we are doing nothing but watching movies in at the moment anyway. STRUGGLE!
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Now for the plot:
I walked into the library at 1:00pm. It is now 1:40 (approx).
I have printed off four more sources for my Capstone paper and found the article that I need to use for my analysis and critique for the crit paper. Next step... leave this loud lower level of the library and find a nice quiet nook upstairs that is close to a window and surrounded by bookshelves, where I will attempt to read said articles and hopefully the words will just pop into my brain and demand to be typed out...
I'll let you know how that goes.
Episode 1- Completed
Episode 1: In which I find Research and Daunting List
Often times college students complain about finals week... and how they have no time eat, sleep, socialize or do anything that remotely resembles fun. Not me. Once finals week starts, I'm happy... because I can finally see the light at the end of this long, curvy, nasty tunnel of doom that is the end of the semester. The week I dread... is the week right before finals week... the last week of classes; "Hell Week." Why do I hate this week so much? As an English major... ALL of my papers are due during Hell Week, which means not only am I cramming to get all the knowledge I need for my actual finals to stick in my head... but I'm also trying to puke out dozens and dozens of papers into some sort of coherent thought. Right now... I am so disgusted by the amount of work that i have been (blatantly) putting off, that I have decided to blog about my progress so I don't feel like such a worthless human being tomorrow.
Ok I will start off this Hell week blog with my list of things that need to be accomplished by friday:
1. 15 page Capstone paper: Compare and Contrast differences between Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber with the classic Grimm's fairy tale Bluebeard.
2. Rehearse With Becca before Juries Performance on Wednesday at 12.
3. Finish memorizing music for Juries performance on Wednesday at 12.
4. 10 page paper for Criticism due Friday by midnight.
5. Pick topic for 10 page Crit paper due Friday by Midnight.
6. Xdis Evaluation paper
7. observe a group in XDIS on Tuesday so I can write my XDIS evaluation paper
8. Finish 10 page XDIS paper: Holocausts effect on Literature
9. Jared's birthday dinner Tuesday night.
Wouldn't it be nice if they gave us like 3 days off of school before finals week to be able to accomplish all of these things and not still have to worry about attending all of my classes... in which we are doing nothing but watching movies in at the moment anyway. STRUGGLE!
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Now for the plot:
I walked into the library at 1:00pm. It is now 1:40 (approx).
I have printed off four more sources for my Capstone paper and found the article that I need to use for my analysis and critique for the crit paper. Next step... leave this loud lower level of the library and find a nice quiet nook upstairs that is close to a window and surrounded by bookshelves, where I will attempt to read said articles and hopefully the words will just pop into my brain and demand to be typed out...
I'll let you know how that goes.
Episode 1- Completed
Friday, June 10, 2011
My favoritest movies ever
1. Armageddon... no surprise there right?
2. Stage Beauty
http://youtu.be/AsNJZWJBYu8
3. Empire Records
http://youtu.be/qUJkM9jAzkk
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. She's the Man
2. Stage Beauty
http://youtu.be/AsNJZWJBYu8
3. Empire Records
http://youtu.be/qUJkM9jAzkk
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. She's the Man
Friday, June 3, 2011
A Post in which I Ramble
Hi. It has been a while. How have you been? You changed your hair?
Ok kidding, I mean it really has been a while though. What have I been up to??... hmmm... A big pile of NOTHING. It's been nice though, I've been reading... a lot. I've spent practically every day at either Charisse or Courtney's houses or them at mine. It's nice to spend some girl time together... just regular time where we don't have to have every moment planned because we haven't seen each other in ages. Charisse and I are actually sad... we had a sleepover at her house last night. It was fun, we watched a couple movies, talked about how our friend looks exactly like Heath Ledger (alive) and we never even noticed... and then we went to bed. The next morning we woke up, made some waffles... and then what do we do... we read. We sat in the same room, and read our books for 3 hours. How sad are we? The funny thing is is that we do this often. It's actually nice having the company because if there is a really funny line you can turn and share it with the person you are with. Or in today's case Charisse was reading a book that I'd read already, and it's a pretty sad book... and when she finished it... she just turned to me and we started talking about it. It's nice to have someone there... but when i told my sister... she just laughed at me and told me that I was LAME. ha. Yea, I guess reading during a slumber party is pretty lame, but that's just how Charisse and I operate. Courtney on the other hand gets mad at me if I read when I'm hanging out with her... which totally makes sense...
I've been working a little here and there too, but I start full time officially on Friday.... Soooo... I'm sure you'll be hearing all about how my boss doesn't appreciate any of the receptionists and how the spa people are crazy... all that jazz that seems to piss me off every year.
Not sure when I'll get to see Chris yet. His car is sick so he can't come see me. plus, it's just a little easier for me to come there. Plus, then I get to see Laura too. Maybe stop in SF and grab lunch with Kayla or Ash. All possibilities. I talked to my mom about me making a trip out there sometime next month and she seemed fine with it, so maybe i'll get to go sometime in july. I always miss chris, that's a give in. But this summer, I really miss other people too, I miss Laura, and I miss Ash, and my B cubed ladies of course. It would just be so much easier if everyone I loved lived in the same area... but I'm pretty sure that that won't ever happen again. Now all my high school friends live all over Minnesota, Mark in Duluth, Ryan and Abs in Mankato... Soon people are going to be graduating college and moving all over the country. I know that Charisse doesn't want to stay in the Midwest, and Courtney is planning on being Miss. Career Woman and planning on moving out to Chicago... and lately I've been thinking more and more about moving to either Boston or Seattle when I graduate... not to stay permanently, but to just live somewhere other than the midwest for a while. I don't want to live in one area for my whole life... I want to experience other places. I just don't want to lose contact with any of those people that I'm really close to. Ugh... Life is hard. I liked 17 lets go back to 17.
Ok kidding, I mean it really has been a while though. What have I been up to??... hmmm... A big pile of NOTHING. It's been nice though, I've been reading... a lot. I've spent practically every day at either Charisse or Courtney's houses or them at mine. It's nice to spend some girl time together... just regular time where we don't have to have every moment planned because we haven't seen each other in ages. Charisse and I are actually sad... we had a sleepover at her house last night. It was fun, we watched a couple movies, talked about how our friend looks exactly like Heath Ledger (alive) and we never even noticed... and then we went to bed. The next morning we woke up, made some waffles... and then what do we do... we read. We sat in the same room, and read our books for 3 hours. How sad are we? The funny thing is is that we do this often. It's actually nice having the company because if there is a really funny line you can turn and share it with the person you are with. Or in today's case Charisse was reading a book that I'd read already, and it's a pretty sad book... and when she finished it... she just turned to me and we started talking about it. It's nice to have someone there... but when i told my sister... she just laughed at me and told me that I was LAME. ha. Yea, I guess reading during a slumber party is pretty lame, but that's just how Charisse and I operate. Courtney on the other hand gets mad at me if I read when I'm hanging out with her... which totally makes sense...
I've been working a little here and there too, but I start full time officially on Friday.... Soooo... I'm sure you'll be hearing all about how my boss doesn't appreciate any of the receptionists and how the spa people are crazy... all that jazz that seems to piss me off every year.
Not sure when I'll get to see Chris yet. His car is sick so he can't come see me. plus, it's just a little easier for me to come there. Plus, then I get to see Laura too. Maybe stop in SF and grab lunch with Kayla or Ash. All possibilities. I talked to my mom about me making a trip out there sometime next month and she seemed fine with it, so maybe i'll get to go sometime in july. I always miss chris, that's a give in. But this summer, I really miss other people too, I miss Laura, and I miss Ash, and my B cubed ladies of course. It would just be so much easier if everyone I loved lived in the same area... but I'm pretty sure that that won't ever happen again. Now all my high school friends live all over Minnesota, Mark in Duluth, Ryan and Abs in Mankato... Soon people are going to be graduating college and moving all over the country. I know that Charisse doesn't want to stay in the Midwest, and Courtney is planning on being Miss. Career Woman and planning on moving out to Chicago... and lately I've been thinking more and more about moving to either Boston or Seattle when I graduate... not to stay permanently, but to just live somewhere other than the midwest for a while. I don't want to live in one area for my whole life... I want to experience other places. I just don't want to lose contact with any of those people that I'm really close to. Ugh... Life is hard. I liked 17 lets go back to 17.
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