All I have left is to print it, staple it, and bike it to campus.
I have no idea what happens after I turn that paper in. Well, other than I have a 2:30 meeting to find out what the rest of my next two weeks is going to look like. Summer project, ho!
Blog, blog, blog.
It’s spring break! I’m not doing a very good job blogging. I got all my papers turned in, and I think all is well. I’m attemping to not think about school, though I had to go to campus today to drop off the graded finals for the class I read for.
Sadly, I’m going to have to go to campus tomorrow too, boo. Though this should be a good trip, I guess, as I’ve got an appointment with a doctor to talk about these heart palpitations, and the notted mess I’ve made my neck. I seriously need to find a way to destress this next quarter, because I spent way too much of this one feeling crap. Plus I’m sure it’s just not good for me, and feeling unwell stresses me out double. Urgh. Anyway, I’m pretty nervous about tomorrow, but I’m hoping that by lunch I’ll be full of relief at finding out that as usual I’m worrying about a mountain when faced with a molehill. Yup. Sigh.
Spent today running errands of many types around town, which was great. Had a lovely lunch at Kathmandu, and picked up some tasty goods at the Co-op. It’s so nice to be around town without any particular aim and with no time constraints. Lovely day. Capped it off by daydreaming through what I wanted to do with the front yard and garden, and hammered out some semi-concrete plans with Lewis. I’m rather looking forward to some yard work, maybe tomorrow, and I hope the weather warms up a little, it’s been really breezy.
Today: two papers finished, turned in. 20 phonology finals graded.
Tomorrow: neuro quiz, grading. celebration?
Tonight: hopefully sleeping well, not having any kind of panic in the night. i’m really tired of feeling like an ape is sitting on my sternum.
Today, by most measures, is successful. I got up early, and got working early. I think I’ve pretty much finished my semantics paper. Worked on it until about 5, and that’s long enough to make any brain too addled to do any more good. Any paper you work that solidly on eventually all starts sounding like nonsense, so hopefully a restorative sleep tonight and some business in the morning will clear my mind enough for the final edit tomorrow. I did manage to get a bike ride to campus to drop off some library books, and make dinner tonight, before sitting down and doing some low-rev paper tidying tonight.
I had great help this morning (and a lovely conversation) from my Quechua professor, who is greatly amused that I’m doing a semantics project on Quechua. She seems really eager to help, and we actually talked on the phone for something like 40 minutes hammering out examples and working out the particulars of the verbs I’m decomposing. She also for some reason gave me 100% on the final, and said I got a 99.5% in the class. So… I suppose I should have not bothered to take this one pass/fail, but it did reduce the amount of stress I had over the class. And I’m feeling pretty inclined to take Quechua II, as it’s becoming rather amusing and interesting getting into the nitty gritty.
Tomorrow I’ll turn in my report to for my independent research class (another pass/fail, by design) and pick up the final exams from the intro phonology students to grade this weekend. I do hope the exam isn’t a long one, I’m really feeling ready for break. I got a jump on my neurosciecne “quiz” tonight and it’s not going to be too terrible. I’m kinda hoping to be done with everything but my grading tomorrow night. Boy, it doesn’t even quite seem possible, does it? I shouldn’t put too much stock in that one. I bet it takes me through Saturday, when all these things are actually due. But I’ll get some time off after that, eh?
Finals week. Things to say.
Awesome day off yesterday. Got hair cut by favorite, Melody. Much catching up. Ethiopian dinner with Ben. Major life questions deftly unanswered. Mind-blowing free jazz concert at favorite Oakland club/cement box/accordian repair shop. Home very late. No studying at all.
Took Quechua final this morning. Utterly flubbed oral portion. Actually spaced out instead of answering questions in dialog! Brain: -1. More amused than bothered. Feeling happy about pass-fail. Confident about spending study time at Ethiopian + jazz.
Came home. Celebratory (abashed?) sushi lunch. Recieved email from neuroimaging professor / goon. Surprise, your quiz *is* an essay! Discomfited. Rejected from working memory until semantics is attended to. Worked outside on semantics paper all afternoon. Did I mention, 75 degrees today? Saw more birds than semantics.
Manual labor break to wash, clean, oil bike. Feeling very mechanical. Much grease under fingernails. Hands well chafed, bike well tended.
Spent all night (is it midnight already?) working on semantics. Triumphantly (abashed?) emailed Quechua professor all remaining lexical questions. Feeling somewhat assified. Isn’t this paper done yet?
Last day of classes! I’m so close to spring break, I can almost taste it. I think I’ve finished my research write-up, and I’m feeling well prepared for my Quechua final on Wednesday. Not sure my neuroimaging professor is going to actually give us a final quiz… so that just leaves my semantics paper! I’ve got it half done or more already, and I’m hoping I can maybe polish off the draft tomorrow. Phew. I’m really ready for break. Aaaand for sleeping in tomorrow!
I think we’re about to hit that point in the blogging where I don’t have anything to say, and no time to say it in. It’s finals week!
So I guess that’s it. One day of classes left. Lovely weather today – worked outside most the afternoon. Got started on my semantics paper, and my research write-up. Made a tasty dinner and played Zombie Fluxx with Lewis while we ate.
Boy, I guess that’s it. How sad! Amazing how time flies when you’re staring at this screen. Oy.
The later I stay up, the more ridiculous my paper seems. The more I fiddle with it, the more ridiculous it becomes. I’d better be off to bed before I completely muss it up.
I’ll be done with all this in 12 hours!!
