I slacked off way too much tonight in my need for a mental break, which is just leaving me screwed for tomorrow. I have three papers to peer edit (I HATE peer editing and find it useless) plus a presentation for Anna Karenina. And my Queer Theory midterm is due Thursday afternoon and is being posted tomorrow afternoon around 3:30, so I'm going to have to manage to write my Queer Theory essay (which I have no idea what it will be about or what it will entail, so I'm more than a little antsy about that) alongside all the other homework I have. Plus my Medieval Lit paper is due Friday, but tecnhically I could skip this one if I wanted: It's an option of either taking the best two grades out of three papers, or skipping one paper and taking the grades on the other two. I didn't want to actaully have to skip a paper so I could give myself a bit of a safe-landing in being able to pick the two best grades out of three, but I'm so swamped in work right now and I really have no idea what's going on in the readings we're supposed to be writing on, I just might have to. Blarg. Luckily tomorrow I don't have two of my classes, so I can either catch up on some sleep for the long night of working on papers then or start working early and sleep later.

If I ever get all my work done, this weekend is Midterm Break (which is only one day extra onto our normal weekend, what a cheapshot). But of course since I have papers that technically COULD be due on Friday if I wanted to put them off in order to do other midterms, I don't really have the choice to leave Thursday night. But I am excited to see my family. It's homecoming weekend back in my hometown, and I'm excited to see my little sister all dressed up and everything, even if things will be crazy. And of coruse I can't wait to see my Mum and Dad, catch up a bit.

For some reason at allergy shots today, the normal soap-operas weren't on the telly for my amusement, and I busied myself instead looking through the old university yearbooks from 1977. It was pretty entertaining... the clothes were awesome, Harry Chapin apparently came to perform live, there were productions of Godspell... XD Apparently there was even a Jewish Student Union center in 1977 (they had a BUILDING just like the other religious groups?!?! There were more than 5 Jewish students on campus!!??!! Impossible!!!) I loved that half the section titles were from Simon & Garfunkle songs, and the too-many articles about peace-this and love-that. Looking through, I couldn't help but keep thinking how pefectly I would have fit into the time period, like a part of me was meant to be there, like a part of me is still out of place today. Is it weird to seriously and honestly miss an era you were never a part of? Maybe I'm just crazy or need to stop shooting myself up with allergins.

I did get a little booklet in the mail today from the Austria programme I want to go to, with information on classes I can take, the trips, families, etc. They offer courses in Skiing for CREDIT!! And photography! And German history!!! There are trips to the Rhine Land, to Hidelburg, and Vienna! The pamphlet only making me more excited to go. I should make a financial aid appointment for Tuesday of next week, perhaps, and get everything else done because time is going so fast and the deadline is rushing up upon me. And I must go to Austria... I must!! Now if only I could get a hold of the passport people to find out where my passport is. *sigh* Salzburg looks so beautiful from the pictures... absolutely perfect. I keep having dreams I'm already studying abroad there, living with a family, looking out over the Salzach River and being late for classes. I mean, it's the home of MOZART! How wonderfully awesome is that? I looked up some basic searches on google for Austria for everyone else to see how perfect this place looks, but photobucket is down, so I'll have to post them later. XD I need to get moving on turning everything in or I'm screwed, because by this point I've built myself up sio much to wanting to go, that this is where I was meant to go...

Blarg. I'm sick of pretending to peer edit these people's papers, some of which are much much MUCH smarter than mine and some of which make me feel a little better about my own (horrible of me to say, maybe, but true at least). Since I'm weighed down with work and screwed to the bone tomorrow anyway, I think I'm off to sleep, as my back is hurting from sitting in this crappity chair.