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Wednesday, December 31, 2003
6:36 PM
in prague.
the hellish travel day and a half that brought me here is something else all together.
Saturday, December 27, 2003
12:19 AM
I am in the midst of a very good week.
Graduation on Sunday. I am finally finished, and a little lost as to how to find a real job on my own. Even writing a powerful resume feels beyond me, but I'm trying. I'd like to get it done before going to Prague, but I'm not sure I'd be able to get it done to the level I'd feel comfortable distributing it.
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, spent with family. Despite the periodic games of 'poke the liberal' it's always a breath of reality to spend time with the extended version: all 26 of them. My gifts went over well, and I have a fairly complete kitchen.
Today I got my first grade back: a B in my History 600 seminar, which was the course I wrote the final 25 page paper (and only graded work) in the 24 hours that finished up my college career. Still a bit worried about my other classes, but if I got a B on that I should probably be okay on the rest.
Tomorrow I will attend sword classes (for the first time in a month) where Shawn will be back! Also, I will hopefully see Return of the King, finally!
Sunday is my 24th birthday, though I plan on keeping that very very low key.
And then Monday I leave for Prague. I am very excited.
I'm an over-privileged little girl, and very thankful for it all. I am very very lucky.
Sunday, December 21, 2003
7:23 PM
so i've graduated. which feels super strange...but good.
i spent a lovely afternoon, going through the ceremony, and then a long lovely dinner with family. i got an ipod, which i find exciting.
now what?
Saturday, December 20, 2003
10:08 PM
boy, am i still tired. if it weren't for the fact this is my last chance to see some people till mid-january, i would not go to the various graduation gatherings this evening. staying up all night is a bad bad thing for your body, and eventually, it just smacks you down.
but i have my gown. it's very exciting. yay!
11:28 AM
paper done. must print it and turn it in.
and pick up my gown.
and graduate.
12:41 AM
12 pages to graduation.
I'm not sleeping tonight.
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
9:47 PM
I stayed up most of last night, trying to finish the second to last paper of my college career. I almost succeeded, but finally caved in to sleep around 5am. Then I went to work and finished it this afternoon, shortly before going to a review session for my last exam of my college career, which I will take tomorrow.
Which will be followed by my last paper for real.
Which is 25 pages.
And I haven't started.
But hey, but Saturday afternoon, at the latest, I will be done with school work. And then Sunday I will graduate, and panic can set in.
4 nights till graduation
1 paper (25 pages)
1 in class exam
Sunday, December 14, 2003
9:44 PM
Yesterday evening I held a lovely little christmas party, involving friends and cider, wine and cheese. I should, of course, have been doing homework. But instead I spent all day getting ready...once I managed to wake up, seeing as the Daily Cardinal end of the party had been the night before. (It involved the most college moment of my life ever, but that's a whole other story.) Exchanged the first Christmas gifts of the season and talked much till the early hours. It was small and quiet lovely.
I think I'm getting a bit sick, which I must fight off at all costs. I need to stay healthy for the next seven days, given that I must write constantly through all of them, as well as doing all the other necessary errands for Sunday's graduation...
In the next few hours, just before I go to sleep, I will be able to notch down my countdown to read thusly:
6 days till graduation
2 papers (40 pages)
1 in class exam
Friday, December 12, 2003
12:32 AM
9 days till graduation
2 papers (40 pages)
1 take home (9 pages)
1 in class exam
Monday, December 08, 2003
11:30 PM
i am going to die.
65 pages:
3.5 papers
1 take home exam
1 in class exam
12 days till graduation.
Saturday, December 06, 2003
11:46 PM
i'm freaking out about the future. which i suppose for me is nothing new. i just feel like staying here, even to work on a campaign, is about me staying a kid, about not growing up. but where else would i go? i'm afraid of that big blank space, but i know i should embrace it. it's not always that simple though. i suspect my eventual resting place really is academia, despite the burn out that characterizes my life at the moment. i need time to figure out where i belong academically, what i miss most.
at least the job market's looking up, so hopefully i'll find something solid and full time, though the parttime will still do me well enough in terms of cash flow. both jobs will simply see time expansion. i'm trying to convince my landlords to give me a strange lease so i don't have to move out till after the campaigns are over. hoping it'll work. also hoping that once that's done, i'm chicago bound.
4 papers
2 finals
and countless pages of reading...
14 days till graduation
