For anyone who cares, I’ve figured out the days where I’ll be cramming the night before. Guess I’ll be here two weeks in a row :

Monday: human rights, 8 - 10 am
Tuesday: art history, 4 - 6 pm
Wednesday: statistics, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Friday: labyrinth, 8 - 10 am

There’s also the possibility of taking the statistics exam this Saturday during the review session. Dunno if I’m up for that … and don’t wanna be in the same room for 4 hours straight.

Jessica needs to turn off her speakers when she’s not here. She’s customized her AIM buddies to sign on and off with annoying noises (i.e., random music, people talking), and it’s driving me crazy.

Tomorrow is the beginning of book buyback. Book buyback = money for your books if you don’t want them and they’re being used next semester. Money plus Claire equals yay, and Claire is excited because she’s been averaging $50/semester. So yay!

Okay, I really need to stop procrastinating … must shower … must write paper … must not sleep ’til absolutely necessary … so bye!

I don’t know how I did it, but I got an A- on my euthanasia paper (my first A all year) and a B on my labyrinth paper. Sucks that I have another one due Thursday, but at least he was nice and shortened the length from 8 - 10 pages with research to 3 - 4 without research. So yay.

Got some errands done: called the bank to unlock my account, Affinity to say I was still alive, Dr. Halfond to reschedule, and my dad to ask for money Also mailed a couple checks, went to CVS, and read 50 pages of The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill for labyrinth. We have to frickin’ finish it by the end of the week (all 312 pages), and I’m pissed ’cause I didn’t know we had a quiz on it today. He said to shift all assignments on the syllabus down one day, but no, he has to go back and change it without telling us So now I have two missed quizzes, a paper, endless reading, and a 12-page human rights journal to worry about. Blah.

“Surely As The Sun” by Hanson is pretty …

As surely as the sun rises each day
So my love will never change
And though the years may come and go
My love will only grow and grow

Sometimes I wonder
What you see in me
‘Cause I’m only a man
Flawed in so many ways you see

I wanna share every moment of
The day with you
And I wanna share every sunset and every sunrise
And every moonlit night …

I can’t believe break is over. I have 5 billion things to do this week, and all I wanna do is be home in Brian’s arms. My statistics exam might be this Saturday, which would be good since I could get it over with. Then again, I have a labyrinth paper and human rights journal to come up with over the next few days, which is gonna suck since I haven’t thought about either. And I somehow screwed up my wrist while shopping on Friday, ’cause it hurts whenever I move it. Blah. I know I’m complaining, but oh well. Tomorrow might be better if I get some stuff done.

What I wrote in the Big Apple … nothing special, but it’s a post, so yeah:

Written on November 26th, 2004 @ 11:10 pm

*sigh* Well, I’m still in New York. I’m sitting on my grandpa’s bed typing and Ross is flipping channels. I so wish there was cable internet here, but alas, my grandpa is still fixed on his slow phone line connection. Bah. Don’t wanna think about how much email I’ll be looking at tomorrow night. Then again, I guess a few days offline won’t kill me.

Ross, my dad, and I spent about five hours today shopping on Fifth Avenue, which I definitely can’t complain about I got a really soft white sherpa sweater and jeans at the three-story Gap, and semi-expensive black pinstripe pants at Banana Republic. I wore them to see Twelve Angry Men after dinner, during which I decided that they were too long. Dunno why since I’m 5′8″, but I’ll probably get them hemmed anyway. They’re also a little baggy in the leg, but they fit nice around the waist, so it’s all good. Now I just need some winter dress shoes.

I would write about Thanksgiving and the play, but I’m sleepy, so I might or might not later … you’ll just have to wait and find out Night night.

Written on November 27th, 2004 @ 6:12 pm

Now I’m on the sold-out train. Listening to my new Nightwish CD It just sucks having to manually enter song info (no internet). I might enter Reise, Reise later, but not sure since my German spelling isn’t the greatest. Good CD though, and having two things checked off from my Christmas list ain’t bad

I’m sleepy. First night in New York the room was frickin’ hot, and then last night the heater kept making clicking noises, thus keeping me up. Don’t know how anybody can sleep in there, but oh well, maybe it’s just a matter of getting used to it.

Completely unrelated: I hate being the last to know …

Happy Thanksgiving! Now it’s time for me to get ready for Manhatten

Mmm … Christmas coffee (with red and green sprinkles!) … one of the best things about winter. I think I fell asleep in human rights watching a really boring video about Burma, but she let us out like 20 minutes early, which was nice. Ran into Lindsey from Foxcroft while checking mail, which was random … conversation was weird ’cause I was a little out of it, but oh well.

So I’ve decided to pack up and drive home for Thanksgiving tonight and give Doron a ride home on the way after waking up at 6 this morning to drive here lol. Crazy, I know, but we all need it every now and then. Definitely will sleep well tonight.

Got my statistics test back. At first I was confused and thought I got an 80/80, but then realized it was really a 37/80. Blah. But the majority of the class got 40’s, and he’s gonna curve it, so hopefully my new grade will pass. Also must go to the exam study session on December 4th so I don’t do the same thing with the final.

Professors suck. I found out today that my journal for human rights is due after break, and must include 12 articles. How many do I have? 2. WTF? She doesn’t explain anything (neither does the syllabus)! I thought we only had to do articles when she wanted us to present them, not as a continuous weekly thing *sigh* Now I have to spend break scouring the Washington Post online and writing 10 one-page summaries. Joy

I finished the WordPress Webring (adopted from Chris)! Michelle’s The Webring Script was exactly what I was looking for, as it wasn’t too complicated and didn’t have annoying language files or confusing Perl, so yay. If you use WordPress, join!

Well, I’m off to clean and pack and organize and all that … adios.

Well, the week from hell is almost over. The hardest part is over. Just finished my 11-page human rights paper. Well, the content is only 9.5 pages, but I really don’t care anymore. At least now I know my options if I ever get really sick and decide to kill myself. Handed in my 8-page art history paper earlier, which was up to par with two lines on a 6th page plus my National Gallery brochure, so I think I’m good there. It’s strange, I’m starting to like Dr. Ehrenpreis. I thought he was weird at first, but slowly came to realize that his weirdness is funny and plus, he sometimes reminds me of Brian. Like today, he gave us all a break by reading about cows going to Paris (a children’s book), playing Jeopardy, giving out gummy octopi (I so need to find out where he got them) and Blow Pops (calling them drugs in an evil voice to entice us to answer), and hopping and Irish-jigging around the room. Maybe I’ll switch to him for art history next semester … then again, his weekly essays were annoying and I don’t wanna deal with e-campus again. Oh well.

This week will really be over when I’m out of here and back where I belong with a clean comforter that’s free of the ranch dressing smell that either Jessica or one of her annoying friends spilled on it *shudder* Maybe I should just burn it.