3/23/2004

I went to see an eye doctor yesterday after work. Is it just me, or does anyone else feel bad for not being able to read the third line down? Yeah, I figured it was just me.

Anyway... After doing that whole drops-in-the-eyes and which-one-looks-better-one-two-or-about-the-same, he decided he didn't want to prescribe a new lens for me because my eyes were kind of dry and irritated. So he said I should wear my glasses as much as possible for the next two weeks and put two different drops in my eyes every day (one 4 times a day, the other twice), and then come back and see him. What fun.

I'm about to go to the library, and I really hope it's open. 'Cause if it's not, then... Well, damn.

posted 1:36 PM / post

3/19/2004

Oh, and nothing quite ruins your mood like finding out that someone you like/used to like is dating someone else. Peh.

posted 12:08 AM / post

3/18/2004

I'm trying out Opera for a bit 'cause I'm tired of internet explorer. But now my blogger looks different and I don't know if it's the new browser or just a coincidental upgrade. Hmm...

I'm so busy. I finished my Moondance stuff for this issue, got the Prelude done, and now I have 6 papers to write before the end of the semester (which is about a month). Guess what I'll be doing over spring break? Yeah. I have one Lit Crit, one American Lit, two CRS, one 18th century/Lit Crit, and one Milton. But now I'm thinking I might try and tie Milton in with 18th century and Lit Crit and just have one big paper. I don't know yet.

And now for funny in-class comments! I've been writing them down. Heh. Allrighty, stupid comment #1. In American Lit, we were discussing The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot, and some girl in the back pipes up with, "From Hamlet?" Yeah, I'm not kidding. And then in Milton class, we had the absolute gem of "What if Milton had a mullet?" Don't you wish you were in my classes? ^_^

I have stuff to do... But I don't wanna do it! And I also would really like to start dating again, but noooo, I have to suck at finding dates. Sigh.

posted 11:20 PM / post

3/11/2004

Does anyone else think time is moving faster? Or is it just me? I swear every time I start a new week, I blink, and it's Friday.

Let's start with last weekend. The annual Mr. Huntingdon pageant (heh, and no I'm not kidding) was Friday night and the multi-talented, always perfect Mr. John Thornhill won. After a couple of hours of the contestants making fools out of themselves, and the casual, formal, and talent portions of the event, John just said, "Nothing's scarier than a quick wardrobe change." Nevermind the performance anxiety, that's nothing. Peh.

I got all my midterm stuff back, all B's and A's. Still waiting on my CRS paper. I had an appointment with the registrar today to go over my graduation requirements, and I'm on schedule. There was a scary moment at the beginning where she said I still had all my language req to fill, but that was quickly resolved (whew) and I have to take 11 classes to graduate. Two will be English (probably Film Studies and Shakespeare's Comedies), my capstone, Physical Science, Western Civ, plus 6 more random electives, none of which may be English in nature.

Two of my classes have been cancelled this week, so yay for that. I took my car in to be fixed, finally, and after they had fixed my door (the keyhole was broken), the car wouldn't start. So they checked, and the battery was leaking, so it had to be replaced, too. Total was somewhere near $250. But dad will probably pay for that.

Anyone read Paradise Lost? Someone said something funny in class Tuesday, but it would probably only be funny to someone who knows what we were talking about... Anyway, we were talking about Sin (the character, Satan's daughter who sprang from his head, much like the birth of Athena from Zeus), and about whether we feel sorry for her (because after she was born, fully mature I might add, Satan slept with her, and she gave birth to Death in a very violent and painful manner, and then Death raped her and she gave birth to all these little monsters that feed on her entrails every hour), and Dr. Gunther compared her to a mentally ill person, who everyone keeps trying to help but who keeps screwing up anyway until finally everyone is sick of her. And someone said, "I'd like to see a well-adjusted Sin." And, well... I guess you had to be there.

I have four papers to write before the end of the semester. One for Literary Criticism, one for Milton, and one for both 18th Century Literature and Literary Criticism. The first Lit Crit paper will be a post-structuralist view on something, but I haven't decided what yet. My Milton paper will be on Eve and human ambition, and 18th Cent/Lit Crit will be on feminist theory in The Ravishing of Lol Stein and William Congreve's play The Way of the World. But that last one is subject to change.

And finally, I think I'm going to change my layout at last. I really like this one, and it will probably come back, but while I was trying to set up a new photo gallery, I saw how old my coding is and I really want to update it. But if I'm going to do that, I might as well start over from scratch. So we'll see.

Tonight I will dining at the school with my friends, listening to John play at the coffeehouse (I didn't realize how much I missed that until I heard him play last week after forever!), and then watch a movie on the green. 'Cause you know what time it is? It's Much See HC! Heh.

posted 5:08 PM / post

3/2/2004

Oh, I almost forgot. I just wanted to mention that I have the best mom in the entire world. I really do. And not just because she spent $150 on me at Walmart yesterday even though I repeatedly told her I didn't expect her to pay for all the stuff I was getting just because she happened to be with me.

Really. She just rocks.

posted 9:28 PM / post

I should really take notes during the day so I can remember all the stuff I want to write about. I always forget the interesting stuff. But I do remember one thing.

I was walking up the steps to Flowers, and when I got close to the door, I thought, "Oh, I hear voices. There must be people in the foyer again." Since, you know, there's stuff going on in the chapel every so often. So I open the door and... nothing there. And I think, "Hm. That's not good."

See, that was fun, wasn't it? Don't you wish I had more stories like that to tell? Yeah, I thought so.

Anyway. I need to write some notes down to take with me to 18th century lit tomorrow; we're writing an essay in class for our midterm. Wahoo. I'm going to write about Swift's Modest Proposal and how it relates to the question of what makes a human. Now if I could just motivate!! That's the word I was trying to come up with in the last post (instead of "encourage" myself, I meant "motivate." Right, moving on...) Motivate myself to get my book out and actually write down some relevant information, that would be a good step. We'll see.

It just occurs to me that this post seems rather ADD. Hm.

I think I'll go find another way to procrastinate now.