May
Yesterday I called to cancel my cable. It just shut itself off. I hate the cable company. They suck more than anything else I can imagine right now. I also just realized that perhaps I should invest in a wall clock since I can't use the clock on my cable box anymore. Hmm. I didn't think about that part. I don't own a single clock. I tell time through my computer and my phone. I don't even have a watch. This could prove to be a bit of a problem. Oh well. I'll figure it out later.
On the up side, at least now I'll have less to distract me from writing the giant paper I'm supposed to present on Tuesday. I've actually been doing some work, but it seems like the further in I get, the more stuff I uncover and have to add to the research list. I went to the library today and came home with DVDs. I didn't have time to get the books I needed. I'm hoping I'll have some dedicated time later. It seems like every semester I go through, it gets harder and harder to write these stupid papers. I don't know why. Maybe because they feel so pointless. Maybe because I feel like I've done enough writing and I'm tired of having to prove myself. Maybe it's because each semester, the topics get more and more vague and so I have no idea what I'm doing, which makes it hard to focus. This has been a pretty tough one, but I'm hoping I'll be able to get it done in a more timely fashion than the last paper I wrote. Last time, I literally stayed up all night writing and churned out 14 pages. I just read that paper the other night, and it's clear to me that it was done with only half a brain. I can't believe I got an A in the class. Granted, there were some great points in the paper, but half of them were weakly supported and most of them weren't fully fleshed out. Just think what I could have written if I'd actually been there for the whole thing. I just want to make sure that doesn't happen again because it is a very unpleasant thing to stay up all night staring at a computer screen.
Not much new on the other fronts. Work is kind of annoying me, mostly because school is demanding my attention and I can't seem to get out of work like I'd be able to. There's always something for me to do outside of my regular hours, and my boss is pretty chintzy with the hours that he wants to pay for, so I'm stuck getting paid about half what I should. Which is awesome since I can't afford to be paid less. Hence the cancellation of the cable bill. I just have to suck it up until July, when I start getting some checks from teaching. That should ease things up a bit. At least I hope so.
I don't know if I mentioned it, but I'm going home in a few weeks for a visit. That should be interesting. I'm not sure what the plans are going to be, but I'm hoping to hang out with mom and do some shopping. And finish my summer syllabus. Once I finish this paper (and one more book for my other class), I'll be free from school for a whole month, which will be nice. Maybe I'll finally get a chance to catch up on all the stuff I've been wanting to get done since last summer. At the very least, it will be nice to come home and not feel the pressure of having a whole other mountain of work to do. I'll be able to just fart around to my heart's content for 30 days, which will be strange and beautiful all at the same time. Maybe it will include some time at the beach, since I haven't been there since the swimming with sharks adventure.
Anyway, the weather has been nice lately, which makes doing work all the more difficult. Sigh. Living in California sure is tough. I guess that's about all I have for now.
On the up side, at least now I'll have less to distract me from writing the giant paper I'm supposed to present on Tuesday. I've actually been doing some work, but it seems like the further in I get, the more stuff I uncover and have to add to the research list. I went to the library today and came home with DVDs. I didn't have time to get the books I needed. I'm hoping I'll have some dedicated time later. It seems like every semester I go through, it gets harder and harder to write these stupid papers. I don't know why. Maybe because they feel so pointless. Maybe because I feel like I've done enough writing and I'm tired of having to prove myself. Maybe it's because each semester, the topics get more and more vague and so I have no idea what I'm doing, which makes it hard to focus. This has been a pretty tough one, but I'm hoping I'll be able to get it done in a more timely fashion than the last paper I wrote. Last time, I literally stayed up all night writing and churned out 14 pages. I just read that paper the other night, and it's clear to me that it was done with only half a brain. I can't believe I got an A in the class. Granted, there were some great points in the paper, but half of them were weakly supported and most of them weren't fully fleshed out. Just think what I could have written if I'd actually been there for the whole thing. I just want to make sure that doesn't happen again because it is a very unpleasant thing to stay up all night staring at a computer screen.
Not much new on the other fronts. Work is kind of annoying me, mostly because school is demanding my attention and I can't seem to get out of work like I'd be able to. There's always something for me to do outside of my regular hours, and my boss is pretty chintzy with the hours that he wants to pay for, so I'm stuck getting paid about half what I should. Which is awesome since I can't afford to be paid less. Hence the cancellation of the cable bill. I just have to suck it up until July, when I start getting some checks from teaching. That should ease things up a bit. At least I hope so.
I don't know if I mentioned it, but I'm going home in a few weeks for a visit. That should be interesting. I'm not sure what the plans are going to be, but I'm hoping to hang out with mom and do some shopping. And finish my summer syllabus. Once I finish this paper (and one more book for my other class), I'll be free from school for a whole month, which will be nice. Maybe I'll finally get a chance to catch up on all the stuff I've been wanting to get done since last summer. At the very least, it will be nice to come home and not feel the pressure of having a whole other mountain of work to do. I'll be able to just fart around to my heart's content for 30 days, which will be strange and beautiful all at the same time. Maybe it will include some time at the beach, since I haven't been there since the swimming with sharks adventure.
Anyway, the weather has been nice lately, which makes doing work all the more difficult. Sigh. Living in California sure is tough. I guess that's about all I have for now.
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