My dissertation is due on the 4th, it's probably not going to make it. Oh, and this is a month of exams.
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1st October 2002 - SS. Remigius, German, Vedast, and Bavo, Bpp. Middle lessons of S. Melorus.
Today I got up and finished my Beowulf essay, finished translating the poem and headed off to class. Class was fun, we drunk mead. It was a pretty nice mead actually. I think it was the first time I have ever actually liked mead.
Anyway, after class I did supermarket shopping, and came home. I've spent all day since staring at my dissertation while it utterly fails to go anywhere. I'm not even getting any proofing done.
And my lip has swollen up, and I have no idea why. It's like that nipple lip thing babies have. A big swollen lump in the middle of my upper lip. It's pretty much freaking me out.
Random Link: Christian News Site review of Buffy - it's pretty good.
Umm, that's about all I have to say... I think (well, thinking might be an overstatement).
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2nd October 2002 - Thomas of Hereford, Bp. and Conf. Middle lessons of S. Leger.
It's one in the afternoon and I'm still only at 7,013. I could scream. Hopefully I've been making what I have better, otherwise I'm wasting time I don't have.
Atleast my face has returned to it's usual shape, which is slightly less ugly and deformed than I looked last night, just.
I should get back to work.
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3rd October 2002.
7,528 words. I should be SO much further by now. Though I have managed to download the first 15 minutes of Buffy s7ep01 Lessons. Which has to count for something...
It's 10:35am and I'm still at on 7,719 words. I have to stop and do some study for Beowulf soon.
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5th October 2002.
My Beowulf test on thursday was pretty good, I actually knew a passage to do, and I think I did okay. I may even have done well. Then I came home and worked until I had 7,995 words, and emailed in off to Ian. Then after some stuffing around I went to Nina's to have dinner with her and Tina. We got Subway, which wasn't too bad. Then Tina and I came home to my place and watched Drop Dead Gorgeous.
In the morning I got up early and read The Second Nun's Tale, showered and headed to varsity. Chaucer was fun. Then after some more time with Tina, I had my meeting with Ian, who was quite pleased, and I headed home to spend the afternoon failing to do work. Then in the evening, Tina arrived, and we chatted until after almost three days of effort, in the early hours of this morning I finally had the first episode of season seven Buffy. And it wasn't too bad a watch.
This morning we watched cartoons and chatted until she headed off and I went to start doing work. Then my father and brother turned up for a couple of hours, making today much less productive than it should have been. At the moment I have 8,034 words, though I have done some rewriting of awkward passages.
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8th October 2002.
Damn, I missed the two days that had interesting Sarum entries... oh well.
Saturday night, except for a brief car ride with Simon, was split between dissertation and sleep.
Sunday was mostly eaten up by dissertation, except the bit that was missing after daylight savings stole an hour of the day. In the evening I went to my grandparents for tea and then came home and failed to do homework as my mother had given me Unleashed for The Sims, and I set it up and tested if it worked, which ended up taking a while.
Monday, I got up early and worked solidly on my diss until I had my conclusion written at lunch time, and had hit 9,500 words. So I printed it out so Ian could see that my fonts work, and dropped it in to Ian on the way to Krishna lunch with Aaron. Then I walked him to meet Alana, and we got me a quote for a printer so I can get most of what is left of my student loan. Since Ian was marking my final chapter and conclusion I took the evening off and played Unleashed and has a couple of very long phone calls.
I slept in far too late this morning, rolled out of bed, stuffed around too much getting ready and headed off to varsity (looking like one of the cast from Grease - hair product is not a good way to fight looking like you've been electrocuted, it just leads to big shiny Grease hair). Beowulf was fun-ish, then after lunch with Michiel I went and saw Ian, who seemed mostly quote happy with what I had done, surprisingly. It turns out he was in favour of my putting honestly ahead of trying to make myself out as knowing things that I didn't. Wahoo. Anyway, then after taking a form into Studylink (Student Winz), I came home and have spent the time since stuffing around and only vaguely doing the re-write I need done by tomorrow.
I am going to burn in bad student hell.
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10th October 2002.
Yesterday I worked on my diss until it was time to go to Romanticism. It was probably my last ever class with someone I've spent three years drooling over but been to whimpy to even try and see if I had a chance...
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11th October 2002 - Nicasius and his compp., Martt.
I got invited out while I was writing the entry above. Thus the sudden stoppage.
Yesterday, I mostly stuffed around until Beowulf, then went to get my draft and discovered that Ian was ill. So no draft back and my dissertation being put on hold for a while. The department is being very understanding of my ill-preparedness. So then I came home and stuffed around and was writing the above when I got asked over to Si's to watch Donnie Darko with him and Renate. It's a pretty good movie, though there are quite a few parts that I never managed to make sense of. Though perhaps that is part of the point. And I stayed there way too late.
This morning I got up at 6am and made a token effort to read the last three of The Canterbury Tales, very token. Then I showered and headed to class, which mostly wasn't on. Ian is still sick, so we had the head of the department for a little while and were then left to our own devices. We actually did some work but then we most just joked around about Chaucer in general. Then Midget dropped me home, and I sat around being depressed all afternoon, and now into the evening. At least I'm depressed out of my own stupidity for once, nice focused self-loathing...
Anyway, I should go before I start some big attention seeking rant.
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12th October 2002.
I having one of those days when I just don't feel like doing anything. Even sleeping seems like too much effort. I'm not sure if anyonelse gets what I mean. It's just like... well... it'd be nice to just not exist for a while, as existing just isn't agreeing with me.
After achieving nothing all afternoon yesterday I went to John's birthday party in the evening. It wasn't too crap, for a drunken theme party. I went as a "Sanitary Device", which offended about half the girls, while the other half found it exceptionally funny and made menstration jokes all evening. Especially as I had my red jersey on to fight off the cold.
But every-one was being too happy and nice and getting along and I just couldn't keep up with it - there is only so long I can look happy when I'm not feeling it, so I came home around 11 and went to bed. And for once having the flat to myself was nice, as I felt like I'd cry if I talked to anyone - which was just plain stoopid, I don't actually have anything to being getting this worked up about.
And today has just dragged on and on and on.
I think I might get takeaways for tea, and then curl up and re-read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, as I'm not up to actually doing study, and just sitting and sulking all night would be lame.
Later.
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13th October 2002 Trans. of S. Edward, K.
Since tea time yesterday I've read two novels, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Both of which I've read before, but I really didn't feel up to doing work or talking to people or even playing computer games. So it's been good. And now I might go sleep in the hopes of getting up early tomorrow and getting stuck into the study. Being my exams start in four days, well, three and a bit days. And I am entirely unprepared for any of them. And I have a final lecture tomorrow, a make up one with Ian for Chaucer. Ergh, I still have to get my dissertation done too. I am so going to fail everything. Oh well.
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15th October 2002 Wulfran, Bp. and Conf.
Yesterday I had what is possibly my last ever class. It was a Chaucer lecture with Ian to catch up, as we'd missed a lecture with his illness. It would have been great if Chris has just shut up, or better yet died, as he kept destroying the discussion so he could wank on about his own crap. And my dissertation has been put on hold till after exams.
Today I got up early, planning to return library books and then study all day. But as life does, I didn't get the books returned until after lunch-time and then proceeded to waste the day away on the phone and playing computer games.
I have 35 hours until my exam, atleast 16 of which will be eaten up by my desire to sleep. And I know NOTHING. The stupid consumptive lecturer changed the paper midway through the year, so it's basically two totally unrelated half papers that share an exam. And I know bugger all about either. And am even less interested in knowing anything, which makes study bite. Why did John Hale have to go overseas this year? He'd have had a paper I could have found interesting, and thus done okay in, instead I have crap Romanticism crap. Bugger it.
I should go study. Or I could set fire to myself. or I could set fire to myself during the exam and get my classmates compassionate consideration.
Oh, and yesterday I found out the classmate I thought was hot, is generally accepted as being amazingly hot, and that for once my taste is good.
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17th October 2002 Etheldreda, V., not Mart.
I blew my exam this morning, having dedicated all yesterday to study, and then getting up at about 5:30 this morning to do some more - after having been woken by my flatmates damn cat. I got there and just had nothing to say.
And I've wasted most of the day since sulking in bed - as that is always productive.
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22nd October 2002.
I got grumpy after my first exam, and by the time I came to study for my third one, I had read all of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Always a productive way to study.
On Saturday (Fredeswide, V., not Mart.), I went, somewhat ill-prepared, to my Beowulf exam, and lucked out, the four passages I learned were all in it - and one of them was a real gamble. My essays weren't to crash hot, but my translation was pretty spiffy. Then, after shopping for a few hours with Aaron, it was home and into a bit of Harry Potter. Then tea at Alana's and home again.
Monday, I was slightly better organised for Chaucer (the Harry Potter having been finished early Sunday morning). The exam was kinda suck, as I just didn't get what I was trying to say to come out on paper. And I didn't tie up my metaphor, mainly as I forgot about it until it was too late. After the exam I had tea with Elizabeth and a couple of her friends, it was pretty nice. Then home to TV and lazing around.
Today I handed most of my internal back to be remarked by the external marker, then tried twice to visit someone in hospital. I bought some pants that are 95s, and thus humorously too big for me. And I got my draft back.
I am supposed to be fixing up my diss so I can hand it back tomorrow, but, well, I'm not. I'm too lazy. Instead I'm just stuffing around. I am SO slack.
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28th October 2002 - Simon and Jude, App.
Since Friday evening, I have watched the first 35 episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess. I need a life.
I haven't written in ages.
Well, on Wednesday I finished my diss and got it handed in. Then in the evening, after Buffy, I went to Re-Feul for $2 pints with Aaron and Tim. Though I didn't stay too long, as I don't drink beer and, as such, it was lacking in the funness department.
Thursday I didn't leave the house - though my father came around for lunch to celebrate his birthday, a day late - and me being a crappy son, I had no gift for him. I really should get him something at some stage, even if it is going to be rather late.
Friday, I wrote up applications for a couple of Masters courses, borrowed some Xena DVDs off Catriona, and went to varsity to get all the other things I needed for the applications and then posted them off. Then Friday evening I got into watching the Xena.
Saturday, mostly went to Xena and sleep. Though with breaks for cartoons and other important bits of television.
Sunday, also mostly eaten up by Xena, though I fell asleep at lunch time and had a long and out of character nap. In the evening, for an hour before Enterprise and quite a few afterwards, I read Stardust. I also spent a chunk of yesterday hobbling, I somehow - in several hours I had spent playing Cultures - I had managed to do in the muscle above my knee on both legs, and DAMN it hurt. It's still a bit sore today.
Today I mostly just buggered around. It's a public holiday, so it's kind of what I'm supposed to do. And my legs both still hurt - though t today it was just sore, and not requiring me to swear everytime I stood up. And I had tea at Alana's, which was really yummy, even if the walk back up the hill was a touch nastier than usual.
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