I'll join you; we can have tea and cocktails and all the great books that school doesn't leave time to read. And cozy afghans, too. Those are important to include.
Fall preregistration. Summer job orientation. Two term paper proposals. Taxes. Preliminary Associate Instructor training for next year. In-laws week after next.
I swear to god I'm going crazy. I want an afghan.
For serious, 'Melia, I think I just need to write all my term papers ahead of time. People keep telling me that outsider input will help me, but all it ever does is knock me sideways. My unwritten papers feel way too tissue-y to expose to outside criticism.
Oh, "good", it's school stuff--that I can sympathize on. When does your semester end? Our last week of classes is the last week in April, for god's sake! I'm starting research on a community analysis and have serious doubts about passing another class (of course it's a required one; it's taught by the crack-brained professor).
Afghans rock. Especially ones with long fringe that you can play with.
Is there anybody who can help do your taxes? I've been lucky so far, one of my uncles does ours. And I hope class registration will go through easily. That's one that I know I always drive myself crazy over.
There's a line in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society where the main character, who's an author, writes to a friend that, "I do have a tiny infant of an idea, much too frail and defenseless to risk describing, even to you...I'm going to coddle it and feed it and see if I can make it grow." I'd say that applies to term papers as well as anything else. Do you at least get to write about something you like?
First week of May. at once so close and so far away!
I've got two papers I like and one that I'm raging against, but if there's a part in the research process I hate most it's this one - the moment right before you really get into the down and dirty of writing, when everything's imprecise and worrisome. That's an absolutely amazing line, btw, and very apt.
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Date: 2010-03-27 01:27 am (UTC)I'll join you; we can have tea and cocktails and all the great books that school doesn't leave time to read. And cozy afghans, too. Those are important to include.
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Date: 2010-03-27 01:37 am (UTC)I swear to god I'm going crazy. I want an afghan.
For serious, 'Melia, I think I just need to write all my term papers ahead of time. People keep telling me that outsider input will help me, but all it ever does is knock me sideways. My unwritten papers feel way too tissue-y to expose to outside criticism.
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Date: 2010-03-27 01:56 am (UTC)Afghans rock. Especially ones with long fringe that you can play with.
Is there anybody who can help do your taxes? I've been lucky so far, one of my uncles does ours. And I hope class registration will go through easily. That's one that I know I always drive myself crazy over.
There's a line in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society where the main character, who's an author, writes to a friend that, "I do have a tiny infant of an idea, much too frail and defenseless to risk describing, even to you...I'm going to coddle it and feed it and see if I can make it grow." I'd say that applies to term papers as well as anything else. Do you at least get to write about something you like?
*gentle virtual hugsmish*
Date: 2010-03-27 04:55 am (UTC)And a deep breath or two.
Hang in there!
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Date: 2010-03-27 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-27 11:34 pm (UTC)I've got two papers I like and one that I'm raging against, but if there's a part in the research process I hate most it's this one - the moment right before you really get into the down and dirty of writing, when everything's imprecise and worrisome. That's an absolutely amazing line, btw, and very apt.