duncan heights

1. Eerie Queerie!
2. Blooming daffodils and cherry trees.
3. The many people out on the Quad and on Hartman Green taking advantage of the lovely weather.
4. Bennett, who let me keep him up until very late last night.
5. Tissues, unlike napkins, which are easy on the nose.

1. Getting out from under a class that was killing me; I will be more attentive and better prepared when I take it again next semester.
2. Mozilla Sunbird (a calendar program), without which I’d be eternally lost.
3. Finishing both the SME and Anime Club budgets for next year! Here’s to hoping we’ll get money from the school!
4. My cell phone, which has grown increasingly attached to my hip since I got it even though I loathe actually using it.
5. The Black Brook and Two Girls Fishing, both by John Singer Sargent, c.1908 and 1912, respectively.

Whee, classes! I like picking classes. It’s like I get to pick a whole new job every six months. Today was a much better day than yesterday; I dropped His360 and am planning on trying it again next semester with a different teacher. I know how seriously I have to take this class now, and I plan on putting it near the top of my priority list when next semester begins.

I pre-registered for classes today. Here’s what I WANT:
*His360, History Workshop (that is, “methodology”)
*His349, Modern South Africa
*Eng207, American Literature 2
*Eng202, Renaissance Literature

HOWEVER, if I get into the classes I want this summer (one here at school and one online), I won’t need to take Eng202, since one of my summer courses will have covered the requirement for which I would take Eng202.

What I’d like to take over the summer, while I work:
*His320, Women in American Culture
*an online equivalent to Eng206, American Literature 1

Now, if that works out, I will have an open space in my Fall class schedule that I’ll most likely fill with a requirement for my history major. If next semester works out, I’ll have finished my history major and have only one class left to finish my English major, Eng480, Advanced Writing Workshop, which is offered each spring to seniors only. So that means (1) I’ll be half of a credit over the grad requirements (right now I’m 1.25 credits under where I’m supposed to be, but if I take the summer classes, I’ll earn back 1.75 credits), and (2) I’ll have three classes my last semester in which I can tell whatever the hell I want (provided I can actually get into the class I want).

AND, if this summer and next semester don’t work out in some way, I have a three-class buffer zone so I won’t get royally screwed during my last semester at F&M.

1. O RLY?, especially the owl one.
2. Knowing my own limits and pushing them, but not so hard I break apart.
3. Usually having time to sit down and eat with my friends (which today I won’t have time to do).
4. My dad, who taught me to keep track of my checking account and credit card debt with Quicken.
5. Having a job with a flexible, friendly boss.

Wow. Today was really shitty.

1. I missed my his360 class for the third time.
2. I missed the class because I was late and the teacher’s already called me out in class and told me not to be late again.
3. I have a problem with skipping classes when I’m already late because I don’t like people being mad at me, and though I’ve been working on it really hard lately (that is, going to class even when I know I’ll be late), this teacher and experience have set me back quite a ways.
4. I think I’m failing that class and may have to drop out.
5. I have a meeting with the teacher tomorrow morning about a presentation I’m supposed to give in his360 on Thursday and (1) I know she’s going to chew me out for doing so poorly and (2) if I give the damn presentation at all, I’ll have no idea what I’m talking about and may lead the entire class down the wrong path regarding my topic.
6. I haven’t even started the reading for my presentation or the writing of a paper for another class, both due tomorrow.
7. I got angry at Bennett for not taking the stupid dorm bomb threat seriously.
8. He distinguished between taking me seriously and taking the bomb threat seriously, the former of which he says he does and the latter of which he obviously doesn’t.
9. After hearing him talk for a while, I left Bennett’s room, still angry.
10. When I called him after chapter to explain and perhaps apologise, he wasn’t available to meet with me, so he probably still thinks I’m angry with him.
11. Being as stressed out as I am, there’s no way I’m completing the SELF Challenge, even though I really wanted to.
12. I keep putting my physical health aside for school stuff and it’s really making me mad, especially since I keep getting sick and having to rework the school stuff.
13. I’m worried about this breast thing.
14. I called my dad this evening and ended up crying to him for and entire hour about my shitty his360 class and other issues, and other people saw me crying, which was mortifying in itself.

On the upside, I know it’s not the end of the world, and the only people who saw me crying were some of my Kappas. Still, though, today was pretty shitty. Aaaaand, of course, it’s not over yet. Plus, I don’t have time to do stuff tomorrow either. I’ll be just going from 9 am, when I’m meeting with one of my major advisors, to 11:30 pm, when Anime Club will end and I can convene next year’s officers to work on the 2006-2007 budget, which is due on Monday. I’ll barely even have time to eat–much less anything else–tomorrow, so don’t expect me to humour any kind of whining or drawn out conversation. Trust me, tomorrow, it’s not you, it’s me, and I apologise in advance if you try to catch me and I snap at you or ignore you all together.