Now I'm Hungry.

You Are Strawberry Ice Cream

A bit shy and sensitive, you are sweet to the core. You often find yourself on the outside looking in. Insightful and pensive, you really understand how the world works. You are most compatible with chocolate chip ice cream.

What Flavor Ice Cream Are You?

Pessimism at its Best

It just feels like nothing's going right for me... I have so much pressure and stress, and I'm trying to write this essay for an application to the summer honors program--a course with a travel abroad component(!)-- and I just can't get it to work. And all the time as I'm struggling to write it I keep thinking there's no way I'm even going to get accepted into this program, anyway--only two students from Millersville will get in. But I so badly want the chance. And I need to hand the essay/application in tomorrow before work.

My Middle English professor still hasn't changed my grade, although we discussed in her office--two weeks ago--the works cited page that I had brought in so she could change my grade from a 0, which I then emailed to her, with my name on the document as well as in the text of the email. When I talked with her this past Tuesday it didn't sound like she had changed her mind about giving me a second chance on my grade, but I really can't tell with her. I think she forgot that she was going to do it, and forgot that unlike some of the other people in the class I had actually come to see her about it, etc. and that she had offered to give me specifically a re-grade (because I at least actually had a decent paper), and I can't ask her about it again because I've used up the one oblique angle I had ("did you get the email? I wasn't sure if it sent properly...") and she'd probably get annoyed if I started pestering her about it (especially if she doesn't remember saying she would). To the class in general, since a lot did badly or didn't even follow the guidelines (which I did... except for thinking that when one has footnotes, one does not need a works cited page), she'd offered to let them choose to have their second paper be the grade for both papers. That's due on the 5th for Middle English, and I'd really like at least some feedback on the first paper before I hand in the second one... and if she hasn't changed my grade by next week, I'm going to have to gamble and accept the offer to have the second paper carry the weight of two. And that'll be 200 points.

I'm almost afraid to get my Calc portfolio back... I have no idea how I did but it was really difficult and I'm not sure if I understood and did some things correctly.

Lots of other deadlines coming up as well. The last day of finals is Dec. 16th and after that, the semester is over...

Birthday

Well, despite having some projects due on Friday, I did enjoy my birthday/birthday weekend... I got a nice dinner out and time with Jason and plenty of birthday wishes from friends (:

(Ok, so the flowers in the photo were from Jason for our anniversary... I just didn't get them up in time. Still pretty, no?)

Giving up on News Posts for a While...

(perhaps a little belatedly...)

Whether hade he no helme ne hawbergh nauther,
Ne no pysan, ne no plate that pended to armes,
Ne no shafte ne no schelde, to schwue ne to smyte,
Bot in his on honed he hade a holyn bobbe.
That is grattest in grene, when greuez are bare,
And an ax in his other, a hoge and vn-mete,
A spetos sparthe to expoun in spelle quo-so my3t.

(darn. the 'ash' doesn't translate to the blog.)

Happy Halloween!

My roommate holding the pumpkin we decorated together (she drew the face and I made the hat). We named her Pomona :)

Already?

One year anniversary tomorrow... hard to believe o.O

Shelley

Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,—
And ever-changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?

Here, There, and Back Again

Well, I went home for fall break and now I'm back.

In other news, I took the "ultimate purity test" again and my score has fallen slightly to 81%. Go me?

My Obituary

'What will your obituary say?' at QuizGalaxy.com

IRON MAIDEN

At last! The concert last night was awesome (once we got there). I'm too tired to write more about it... all my energy, alas, must go towards working on that paper that's due Tuesday.

Attention!

Love x 2

Two of my greatest loves combined into one!

Helter Skelter

So much to think about... so busy... what happened to the weekend? o.O

In other news, here's an itty-bitty book from the archives:

It's Almost as Good as Answering the Question of Schrodinger's Cat...

reka tsvetok: argh
reka tsvetok: the stupid school store charged me $3 for three postcards instead of 3 for $1
reka tsvetok: I don't feel like going all the way back there
cmedalis: :(
reka tsvetok: apparently two dollars is the price of laziness
cmedalis: haha well that answers that age-old question

Insanity is a State of Mind

(you get there by going crazy)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"With a sudden movement she bowed his head and joined her lips to his and he read the meaning of her movements in her frank uplifted eyes. It was too much for him. He closed his eyes, surrendering himself to her, body and mind, conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips. They pressed upon his brain as upon his lips as though they were the vehicle of a vague speech; and between them he felt an unknown and timid pressure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odour."

So Much To Think About...

My weeks are full; my weekends in a way are fuller (after all, they're shorter) ...but at least for some of the weekend I have Jason-time.

Mrs. Dalloway

"He had not said 'I love you;' but he held her hand. Happiness is this, is this, he thought."

Basically

So basically, here's the conclusion I've reached after two weeks of Uni: My insanely busy schedule leaves very little time for messing around online, much less the time *and* brain activity needed for composing interesting blog postings. I read the headlines and my comics in the morning and maybe check in with Facebook here and there in between assignments, but that's about it...

It's going to get very boring here for a while :P

More Firefly tonight! Yay!

Eeew

On Monday, I was going over to turn the A/C down in our dorm room when I noticed some black mildew splotched on the vent of the unit. It was very unpleasant to discover-- not only is there mildew in our room, but it had been dispersed by air for who knows how long! I wonder why I've been getting sick? Naturally I turned it off, left a note for our RA, and then went down to the Snapper offices for the rest of the day.

That night the RA knocked on our door (waking me up) to take a look and explained that previously the janitors had sprayed all of the mold (before we moved in, I would assume) and killed it, but hadn't actually wiped it off the surface. We were welcome, she said, to get some disinfectant wipes and remove the residue ourselves. I was not very awake, so I didn't argue.

Now, she's a bio major, and I suspect that this was complete bullshit. For one, just because it's black doesn't mean it's dead. Our house can get pretty damp during the humid summers, and I've seen plenty of black mildew that is not at all "dead white mold." Secondly, whether or not any spores left behind are dead, it is entirely possible for them to start growing again. Basically, the University doesn't have enough staff-- or enough funding-- to check every A/C unit again and clean it, plus, they don't want to be open to lawsuits, so they're covering their asses and getting us to do the work for them. And obviously I will be doing that this weekend with my roommate, because neither of us want it near us longer than it has to be.

And for those of you who aren't familiar with Millersville, our dorm windows are bolted shut. No fresh air for our rooms...

I'd probably be more pissed about this if I weren't so incredibly busy >.<

(In other news, I got the library job I applied for at the end of last year and my first day was yesterday! It seems pretty cool so far, although with the potential to be monotonous, just like most jobs.)