Tomorrow I have a mini-presentation on what I’ve been up to all quarter.  It’s 15 minutes, and everyone is feeling vastly confused and underprepared for what’s going on.  I hate the idea that my job tomorrow is to stand up, blather for 15 minutes, prove I’ve been clicking on stuff, and fail to draw any useful conclusions.  But I guess that’s what this experimental business is about.  When you’ve only got a few weeks to whip something up, and your data is perpetually preliminary, there’s just not that much you can get all excited about.

The one thing I am pretty excited about?  Last presentation tomorrow.  Then it’s papers, papers, papers.

Today went well, but I’m definitely reaching a state of overwhelmedness.   We talked about taboo and euphemism and such things that everyone has experience with and thus a lot of folks get talking.  Good.  Next week is sort of a non-issue for TAing, I think, cause I only have one section and it’s right before Thanksgiving (ie, no one will come if we even hold it at all) and then we only have one week left — so it must be review for the final!  Phew.

I can’t believe we’re winding down our first quarter… it’s so exciting to be working on my final projects already, and also incredible to think that at some point in the nearish future, I’ll be done with them.  I’ve been coding like mad lately, and reading such interesting theory… it doesn’t feel finite.  But I sure am looking forward to that three-week break!  I don’t even know what I’m going to do with myself.   Oh, school… you fickle mistress.