qalice

I never, ever again thought I'd come across a paper that I could not bullshit my way though.

...this one's giving me a lot of grief, though. And very handily kicking my ass. I had thought that one year of grad school and four years of undergrad had taught me how to shut up and vomit words onto a page, at least for academic things. But I guess it just goes to show that I shouldn't get so cocky.

And there I was, beautiful Saturday afternoon with the whole house to myself, thinking, naaaaw, Monday's good enough. Just crap it out in a day and turn in the rough draft, get it back, then turn in a better version Wednesday, perfect grade once again.

Oooohoho, SO WRONG. It's due at midnight tomorrow, and I'm not even done with the rough draft yet. *bangs head against desk and weeps* And now I'm going to have to turn it in without the benefit of the helpful rough draft prof edit (I really, really love this prof... I can't believe she let, nay! encouraged us to turn in rough drafts a couple of days early so we could get help and better grades <333 Aside from this miserable assignment, I've never had a more useful, informative semester of assignments. Ever.)

( eh, whatever )


whew! I haven't acted like a crazy 15 year-old, in, like, forever! Maybe, like, a whole week or something!

In other news, numbers are pointing to me having TWO As this semester! It's not 100% certain yet, but what's life if you don't celebrate prematurely? So obvs I went out and bought new hardware. Then I named it Karkles (omg, baby!Karkat you are just so bitchy and angry and sarcastic. <333) :DDD Good day, good day. Now I have to go mop the kitchen floor and return all my library books. \o/ While I'm there I'm going to see if the ICPL has Castle dvds.

I GOT AN A ON MY MIDTERM!

\o/

Now I've only the second exam to go, and if that's an A too I'm going to weep with joy.

WOOO! GO ME! LOOK AT ME, NOT FAILING GRAD SCHOOL. ...yet :D I am just as slick as snot on a rock. Oh yeah.

It occurred to me that perhaps I should be writing more in my journal.

It is now seven days into the year, and only now did I think to myself "hmm, goals? *heavy sigh* if I muuuust"

My goals for the year:
1. don't fail out of grad school
2. write more entries
3. finish project x before I move
4. don't die


*steps back* *admires* Yup, them's some good goalin'.

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I had bronchitis this week, called in sick for three days, and I feel sort of bad about that last day, because at that point, it was more about the (really, truly) uncomfortable cramps than all the coughing.

What's interesting is that, despite the fact that I feel like I stuffed my face way too much, I lost four pounds in four days. ALL I have done, in the past week, is eat and sleep, wake up, pee, eat, and then sleep some more. I would've thought that I would gain four pounds after that.

It was pretty nice, I will admit. But now it's back to the grindstone.

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I finally have the syllabi for both classes I am going to be taking this semester, and oh holy shit, I think I'm going to die. In the past, I heard about such classes, but never before have I ever taken a class where literally half my grade is the midterm, and the other half is the final. The other class is completely nuts too, but in a different way. I'm vaguely considering moving home early, because fuck money, I need to GRADUATE, and I really don't think I can do full time work with these classes. What I think I am is FUCKED.

So I requested vacation time before the two Tests of Death, and I requested a full week off for the other class's Paper of Killing and Doom (which is also, did I mention, HALF MY GRADE, OH GOD *breaks down and cries*), and a few days off scattered here and there, during which I will hopefully catch up on some of the reading.

I HATE blackboard. Hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE.

It is SO WORTHLESS for discussions.

The text box is tiny. To respond you get sent to a new page, so whatever you were responding to gets left behind, and there's no easy way to look back at what's been said if/when you lose your train of thought.

There's no way to edit typos, or anything, for that matter. There's no way to read an entire thread in one go.

Any time I try to reply to anything, I start typing but nothing happens. Then I have to stop, click on a different tab, and then come back, and then it's fine. This happens WITH OUT FAIL.

I cannot believe that we are expected to have intelligent and thoughtful discourse in this WORTHLESS forum.