February 2011
I have honestly got no idea how I just wrote that paper, but whatever, I did.
I wrote it, and I will go to class in the morning, and I will pretend I am a good grad student instead of a bad one.
Yes.
Over half way done. Come on, me! Go, go! Spew those words!
@ novaz and fakedr:
I accept all submissions of sandwiches and cake.
Can’t promise not to cry into them in a fit of overripe melancholy, though.
I am over 1/7th of the way through this, yeah, yeah.
:sad banana:
fakedr replied to your post: Observe my downward spiral: This entire week…
What I would try to do is write out the paper as best you can scrape together, and maybe through doing it something will start making sense. And even if it doesn’t, fuck it, you have some credit turned in.
You are right, of course. I am just wallowing in something unpleasant.
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Observe my downward spiral:
This entire week (since last Thursday) has been a bust. Now I’ve got this paper to write, which I have had a week to complete. I have no idea how to turn this brief collection of words into a 700-800 page paper. None at all. So I think, maybe, maybe I should just write, and turn in something, something bad, but something, still. And then I feel so...
Y’all with your “snow days.” I could use a “snow day.” Tomorrow should be a “snow day.” But it won’t be, because we don’t get snow.
Note this, for it is a very rare occasion: Right now, I would actually prefer to be someplace where I would get a snow day tomorrow.
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(I mean, I guess the best thing to do is to write *something* even if it is too short, or wrong, or whatever, and get a low grade rather than a complete 0 grade. But I’m still sitting here going “…um” and wondering if the prompt really doesn’t apply well to the tech (and if so, how to deal with that without 1-sentence “this doesn’t apply” statements)...
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(I really don’t know how to write this paper. Looking for scholarly sources leaves me feeling like it’s all in another language entirely. Knowing the sources I was using before leaves me wondering how on earth the prompt applies to the tech, and how, if I can even find answers to the questions that make any sense, they will expand to a suitable size. I seriously have no idea.)
Not even going to go into how much money just came out of my savings account.
Next up: try to overcome the still-present nausea-headache to write, haha, 7-800 words on the -what now- technological architecture of QR code?
My nausea says “skip it, skip it, it’s only 5% of your final grade!” but my mind suggests that’s still a bad idea.
In summary, today blows.
In which I am a crank:
My mom just called me, frantic:
“WE HAVE TO GO TO THE BANK NOW. THE BIGGEST BLIZZARD EVER IS ABOUT TO HIT CHICAGO AND YOUR BROTHER ONLY HAS $30.”
She doesn’t have her checkbook, so I’m the only one who can save the day.
And I’m like, ooh, yeah, $30 bucks with the storm coming in, huh, yeah, that sucks. Wowie. I mean, I know it sucked those...
Today, so far:
woke up with a nauseating headache. tried to go back to sleep. fought with cat over this sleeping for two. hours. got up to take some advil. got scratched by Mr. Handsome, who is apparently awash in asshole behavior. ate a small sandwich. got first aid cream on my desk in the process.
I would suggest today bite me, but I’m afraid it actually might.
January 2011
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It is 5:30 and the most productive thing I did all day was take out the trash.
I also sent an email.
So much for a day ripe with productivity, eh?
I am having one of those ‘only want to do the things I shouldn’t do so let’s do nothing at all instead’ mindsets right now.
These are both moody and unproductive.
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Spell your full name without an...
frozenheads:
oportspangles:
jujuistrulyoutrageous:
J D HOWTO H. Well, okay then.
D TH.
And that is as close as I will get to putting my name on this blog.
U.
My first name without those letters is U.
(via billie-joe)
Th W. Rather lacks the same ring.
Burger King, take me away.
littlebluebeetle:
brutallyhonestbabes:
It might be a phenomenon that only happens in Los Angeles. The constant talk of diets and exercise. It’s everywhere around me. I run away from one conversation about raw food, to another about an exercise routines. I can’t fucking escape it. News flash — your exercise regimen is FUCKING BORING TO HEAR ABOUT. It’s disturbing that your daily ration of...
Today was a most unexpected day.
Let this post stand in for all the irritated things I would like to say to my boss right now.
lalalindsay:
“Free crab for life and a feisty sea captain to boot. Could life get any better?”
—
That would be my Mom talking about SeaCaptainDate.com after I shared my desire for her to find and wed a rugged, devil-may-care crab fishing vessel captain.
ATTN: MCC.
3 posts in a row of that "Forever Alone Day,...
lakebandit:
frozenheads:
lakebandit:
Come on guys, we’ve got each other, we’re never alone!
We mean the other kind of alone alone. You know. Ahem.
ohhh that… well, there are things you can order to handle that.
THOSE THINGS CAN’T HOLD MY HAND IN PUBLIC.
yestimgunn replied to your post: I believe the pear is an underrated fruit.
I used to make these pear cardamom muffins that were kind of like crack. You’ve reminded me I need to find that recipe stat.
And send it on to me, apparently.
I believe the pear is an underrated fruit.
I was feeling badly about ditching out on all my work today, even as vague exhaustion made my closed eyelids feel like stuck windowpanes and my body like I’d spent three days working out too hard-
but feeling this pain zipping along my forehead every time I move my eyes convinces me that I made the right decision. This headache would not have worked at school.
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The goal for today seems to be convincing myself that I either a) don’t have to do any of the out-of-apartment things I planned to do today or b) can do a sufficient amount of them from bed.
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I am experiencing a craving for the corny jokes of the jungle cruise and the sanitized water smell of pirates of the caribbean.
Things I have failed to accomplish this morning:
Anything but sleep.
I want to read this article about a BSG prequel, but I fear spoilage. So I am guessing the contents: Prequel! With young Adama! Who is going to be played by that cute guy from 2nd gen. Skins!
I hope I haven’t missed anything.
curliestofcrowns:
missshirley replied to your photo
Logically, I recognize that he is a handsome man. Perhaps even a very handsome man. But every time I see him I just think of his role in Robin Hood, those awful outfits & that awful personality, and all sex appeal drains right away.
madam, you need to watch yourself some North and South, posthaste. until then please enjoy the following:
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By the way, that foot makes a lot more sense in the context of the overall image, but you’re not seeing the overall image because I haven’t embroidered it yet. Yes.
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So I am thinking of taking two quarters for this micro-story letterpress book instead of one, despite that seeming like a ridiculously long time for one little book-ette, because
A) Today’s lab was nothing but frustrating. 4 hours trying to print, running into one press-related problem after another. When we finally- finally- got things fit right, it turned out that we’d blundered...
If I had the ability to pop into a hair salon right this minute- I know the exact one- I would walk out with fixed up bangs, a sleeker cut, and a big swath of teal on the left underside.
fakedr:
“We will put more Americans to work repairing crumbling roads and bridges. We will make sure this is fully paid for, attract private investment, and pick projects based on what’s best for the economy, not politicians. Within 25 years, our goal is to give 80% of Americans access to high-speed rail, which could allow you go places in half the time it takes to travel by car. For some trips,...
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This computer lab smells foul.
But I was impatient about learning the results of Baby Ipo’s revelation, and had half an hour to kill.
Still, pe-yew.
This morning’s goal of making lunch before heading off to school?
Yeah, I’m just gonna go the leftover pizza route. So much easier.
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A job-killing plan for arts and culture? →
hydeordie:
If you gave me a buck, and next year I returned $18.75 to you, would you think that was a good deal? I would. With savings accounts, money markets and even stocks yielding just a few percentage points on investments these days, a return in excess of 18% is pretty staggering. Yet, that’s what happens with federal support for arts and culture. It pays for itself 18 times over. Federal...
I am in no danger of getting married soon.
oportspangles:
thedisgruntledgradstudent:
ailanthusaltissima:
But people around me are. PEOPLE MY AGE AND YOUNGER. I just don’t know how they do it. I don’t know how people do anything.
I know I’m not the only person who over-analyzes everything.
It’s lonely out here in NEUROSIS LAND.
Welcome to my nightmare.
At this rate, my (three years younger) sister is likely to be married and...
yestimgunn replied to your post: Things I want most seriously tonight, in no…
Well you’ve talked me into BSG and knitting for the evening.
THAT’S WHAT I WANT TOOOO. Except embroidery instead of knitting. But I have 20 articles I am supposed to get through before Wednesday morning, as well as some thinky-topic-decisiony things to handle, and while I already know that I can’t get...
Things I want most seriously tonight, in no particular order:
a spicy-sauced pizza a significant-other-type partner more time to stitch a seriously comfy armchair