So! Let's see. I got a pretty solid B on my Japanese history paper on The Tale of Genji, and the points she did take off seemed to be because I made Turabian style mistakes (which I don't think is all that fair, but hey). So that makes my grades in that class a B on my midterm, an A on my presentation, and a B on my paper, so that sets me up as not too bad for this final. The final itself? Didnt' go too bad at all for something I didnt' study for! I'm not saying I did great, but I think I'll pull through the class just fine. I hope. XD 

Tonight: work on how in HELL I'm going to present on my research paper for a whole frekkin' 15 minutes tomorrow. Not only is my paper utter CRAP, but I'm also terrified of giving presentations. Hurray.

This makes me remember all the things LOST has forgotten to explain on the show. I feel like someone should sent the article to the LOST producers to remind them.
IGN's Top 50 Lost Loose Ends

I miss when "Breaks" were actually breaks. >_<

To do over Thanksgiving Break:

*Interview Mother for oral history project (find tape recorder/video camera somehow)
*Read relevant sections of "The Mommy Myth" for oral history project
*Write short paper on oral history project
*Read "Growing Up Mississippi" for Women in American History class
*Interview sister about Young Adult Literature
*Write paper for Young Adult literature
*Write a rough-draft of Greek history paper and e-mail to Dr. Rose ASAP
*Study for Japanese final Tuesday (What the FUCK!?!?!?!)

which means I'm not even going to have time to think about my Research paper. Why do all my professors thing they're the only ones who have work due? No relaxing break for me.

*Harry Potter FRIDAY!!! Any Trumanites going that I can tag along with? I soooo don't want to go by myself opening night, but I'll do it if I have to! Whoooot!

*Study Abroad News!
-my plane-tickets arrived at my house today! It's Chicago to Zurich, Zurich to Brussels! Whoooot!
-finished my application today, will ask Ash to take me to the post office to mail it so I can ask what kind of envelope to use/how many stamps are required for over-seas mail
-apparently visa application is trucking along just fine
- I need to get a notorized copy of any police file (?) I might have. WHich is weird, I guess it's some kind of good conduct thing. I don't think I have a police file... unless they wrote me up that one time the neighbors thought my friends and I were defacing cars in the neighborhood and it was just pockahtee's car in front of my house.


*BEST IDEA EVER: Anna Karenina SIMS!!! I haven't decided whether I should do book versions of the characters and have them all live in a neighborhood together and act the story out that way, or do my own teen romantic comedy version I was talkign about with Sims University, and act things out that way. I could like... print out the screenshots I take and put them into a story book, and put some of the movies I took on SIMS onto a disk for the professor. I need to ask her about this, but I think it's too fun. XD

*my computer is not happy for some reason. Maybe I have viruses, which I am trying to weed out as we speak. Tonight is LOST and then I nap until work, in which I'm going to read Persian Letters for history class and maybe make those Anna Karenina sims.

Wow, I suck. The day I sit down and INSIST to myself that I'm going to do homework, I simply can't. The article for Survey of Modern Europe is FUCKED UP and impossible to understand. So Ash and I went to the rec center and did really fast walking for about 40 minutes. It felt GREAT, because I've been feeling horribly disgusting of late. I need to start getting to the rec center more. Maybe I'll go back walking tomorrow with Ash, at the least. So I've accomplished NOTHING tonight. At all. I'm thinking about giving up on writing an Anna Karenina paper and choosing the "project" prompt and like... make a playbill for one of the Anna Karenina adaptations. Which means I need to come up with a list of actors to play the characters. Blarg. And take a shower ocne I finish this diet coke full of wonderful caffiene.

waaaah, I need to do homework. What's wrong with me? Why can't I just get it done? My mind is all over the place tonight. I'm also a little stiff already from just power-walkign for 40 minutes. I'm so out of shape.

( Looking to procrastinate? BUNCHES of quizzes and memes under the cut! Including a musical random playlist quiz! )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEN sister_midnite!!!!! I hope you have a WONDERFUL one! <3

I totally want to have some sort of going-away party over Winter Break with all the U. City peeps (and Ash, of course). I should look into this. Study abroad stuff is going along just fine, so far. I got an e-mail confirmation back about my class schedule proposal from Austria, my $500 deposit to hold my place is in, I got my International Student Identity Card back, and I have a plane ticket to Austria all bought and ready to go! Of course I still need to mail my father some documents so that he can continue to work on getting me a visa, get back an important form from my doctor back in St. Louis, and air-mail off my final application (mini-biography, health info sheet, housing information, etc) asap before Austria starts getting pissed at me for it being so late. God, I can't believe things are tying together...that I'm really going. I am promising right now to take a ton of picture and journal everything I can. I may even make a separate study-abroad journal... who knows. Anyway, it will never happen unless I get this application stuff back to them soon. Stupid air-mail and waiting for doctors to fill out forms.


Today I chit-chatted with Cute Conservative History Class Boy in Survey of Modern Europe today. Allison thinks I should "hit that." I also saw Cute Desk Boy when he was walking into the sub while I was eating dinner, in which we made very brief talk as he passed by, waved our arms around, and he made a Beatles joke. Mmmm. good times.

Annnnnyway, I really don't have time for this journal entry. I know I've been lax in updating lately, mostly because I've been so weighed down with stuff to do. This weekend was wonderful and relaxing, and I did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! you hear that?! And I was absolultely thrilled to do nothing all weekend, just watched Disney movies (Toy Story 2, Lion King), Princess Mononoke, and played Sims2 a lot. And oh MAN did I need a break this weekend, even though I really should have been writing papers, reading books, and so on and so forth.

So now I must get off livejournal (haha, as if I won't be checking for updates in... oh, 15 minutes) and start all my homework, and take a nice long shower in there somewhere. I ahve a lot to do this week, and this stuff is only the things I can remember off the top of my head!

For Tomorrow:
-History Summentary (read article and write summentary)
-Rough draft of Anna Karenina theater unit paper!!! (Waaaaaaaaah!)

Wednesday:
-Medieval Lit outline for term paper DUE (waaah)
-Do a Queer THeory QCQ

Thursday:
-Anna Karenina paper DUE

Friday:
-History paper on Persian Letters due

The first thign that made me laugh today after stressing all morning about how awful the rest of this week (and next week) is going to be was from nobleplatypus's livejournal about the Harry Potter movie. :
"Was also looking at screenshots over at the leaky cauldron. They're all very pretty, aren't they? The actors, I mean. All pretty and wearing such hip clothes. Apparently, they've all transferred from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to St. Abercrombie's Modeling Academy. "Take those robes off and put on something trendy! Raa!"


This could not be worse timing for the Prism Dance this weekend. Not only do I have a book to finish (at least I'm 2/3 of the way through) and a Summentary due by 3:00 Sunday afternoon (and THAT'S after probably dancing the night away until 5 in the morning!!!), but also my Anna Karenina project to finish by Tuesday (I'm going to make paperdolls, I think. This requires work. And time. That I dont' have). This probably means that I cant' stay up too late Friday night and hang out with Denni because I'm going to need to get up Saturday and do my history summentary. Blarg. Also, my lit paper is due Friday and I really need to do well on it considering I completely and utterly bombed the midterm. Fuck, I have so much to doooo! At least I'm getting to see Denni and going to dance my ass off at the PRism dance and forget all about school for a few precious hours. Oh, and another good thing, I got an A- on my first Anna Karenina paper. Whoot.

Been thinking about how I'm going to post pictures on lj while in Austria. Because I know I'm going to take SHITLOADS of them. With no digital camera, it will be hard to post online, but I'm assuming the school will have scanners somewhere. I should remember to stock up on film when I'm getting ready to go. Also, check and make sure my camera still works, it's getting a little worse for wear, but it's a damn nice camera that I gto for Christmas like 4 years ago or... somethingand it works just fine last time I checked. I also, this weekend, need to double-check on money for study abroad, which worries me. I think I need all sorts of deposits in fairly soon. And go to the office and ask about the fees, because one is asking for a $500 deposit by November 17th adn then a seperate piece of paper says a $300 deposit, both to confirm my place in the program. So it'd be nice to know if it was one or the other or both. Also, I need to fill out the Student Identity Card application and give THEM $22 and fill out my Emergency Information. Waaah. I cant' concentrate on school stress AND trying to remember to get all this stuff paid.

Anyway, enough stressing for you guys! It's a fuckign beautiful 70 degrees outside... I love this weather so damn much.

I can't concentrate on this King Horn heroism paper I'm supposed to be writing right now because the room is FILLED WITH FUCKING BUGS. And I don't mean this in any sort of exaggerated form... the room is literally covered in bugs, the whole ceiling and the walls, all around my bed (since it's by the light)... they're crawling on my computer and they keep flying onto my arm and shirt and face, and it's disgusting. It doesn't help that I have a severe phobia of insects, but the fact that I can feel them on my skin and the knowldege that they're all around where I sleep is NOT helping me concentrate on this paper. Which I despertly need to get finished. I hate bugs... I hate bugs so much. And they're all in the dorms everywhere. I feel disgusting. Just.... ewwww.

Went out to dinner with the girls tonight for Chinese food at China Palace. It was a damn tasty buffet! The books on reseve for Queer Theory have been out at the library forever, and I'm a little worried that I'm not going to get my hands on them before class, as I can't continue to run from here to the library back and forth until I get the book as I have this paper to write. Too bad, because they looked really awesome too; we were supposed to be reading the sonnets of Michelangelo.

My movie from Amazon.com has still not come, which is annoying as I wanted to take it home with me this weekend for entertainment. Still no final decision on History of Christianity yet... ^^; I'll have to decide last minute tomorrow. For now, I concentrate on this paper. And try to wean myself off of procrastinating on the internet. Bad livejournal, BAD! At least I'm listening to my Broadway/showtunes/musical playlist on iTunes!!! And must resist all temptation to play Snood/pinball/solitaire. Of course, anything but homework looks tasty right now, but isn't that the way of life. XD So long as I stop feeling like bugs are crawling on my skin...

On a side note, my little sister has just gotten her permit. What a scary thought... she's growing up so fast.

oooh, Chris Botti is coming out with a new album this October, so the rumours go! I wonder if that means he'll be touring again!!! Maybe even over winter break! Heh, anyone interested in coming with me then, if he does? avalonauggie or dropping_crumbs? Mmmmm. Botti. Trumpet. Maybe I should go listen to some of his soooothing jazz to relax me on these stressful days.

hah, my desk is still completely exploded... so, so messy. I rally need to reorganise and throw a bunch of shit away before I find a lost civilisation hidden away in there that eventually will try to take over the dorm-room. Anyway, I'm worried about possibly having to skip Prism tonight as I definitel have too much on the homework scale, inlcuing a Medieval Lit paper, to take a very long break. It's only voting today anyway, and I never paid my dues anyhow. Must remember to do that. My GOD do I have a shitload of homework tonight, so it's good, perhaps, that I did sleep this afternoon.

mrreh. Skipping lunch to sleep in even later after finishing the history summentaries seemed like a good idea at the time, but am not very hungry and realising I dont' get out of class till 5:30. Will perhaps throw a breakfast granola bar or something of the likes in my backpack before I leave for Christianity. And look forward to the horrible cafeteria dinner no matter how disgusting. I wish I was capable of skipping meals completely like everyone else. >_<

I have to make the decision of whether to drop Christianity before the end of tomorrow... and the rushed feeling to make a decision is NOT helping. I'd have enough credits and everything, but I feel bad dropping the class, and yet a part of me thinks I'd be better off if I just did. I just don't know what to do at all, and it's driving me crazy.

...and now I have to go sit through Christianity and find out how badly I did on my last test, even wtih biggest curve known to man. Maybe I SHOULD drop and just pay the fine... give myself some slack.