Coconuts xD

An explanation about why I find this so funny will be forthcoming as soon as I take some time to upload all the photos I've been taking...

Final Grades Are In!!!

*looks smug*

Undergraduate Course work Fall 2006

	Subject	Course	Section	Course Title		Final Grade
	ENGL	239H	01	Hnrs:Westrn Literary Traditn 2		A
	ENGL	402	01	Middle Eng Lang and Literature		A
	ENGL	415	01	Sem:Joyce and Woolf		A
	FREN	101	0	Elementary French 1		A
	HIST	106	02	Contours of US History		A
	MATH	155H	01	Hnrs:Applied Calculus 1		B

Back Home

Well, I'm back home and settling in pretty well, considering that my mind and body were completely exhausted by the final exams, papers, and projects that have filled the last week of the semester.

I love my nice new mattress though :D

It turns out that my dad's coming home for Christmas after all, so on Tuesday night we'll pick him up at the airport... I was actually feeling kind of down that he wasn't going to be able to make it out here, so I am surprised and glad that he will be after all :)

Not much more in the way of news; I brought a lovely digital camera back with me from the Snapper (Nikon D70, baby!) so I will try to put some photos up. I've been catching up on my reading, and am already roughly halfway through The Poisonwood Bible. Cheers!

'Cause I am Teh Awesome

This is what my desk looked like while I was writing the paper that goes with my ballad...

My Awesome Ballad

The Ballad of Mount Badon

"Dark days are falling on Britain!"
Her people cried aloud.
The Saxon scourge spread o'er the land,
A darkly growing cloud.

The Saxons marched on Badon Hill,
And threatened the fortress there.
King Arthur swore to punish them,
And warned them to beware.

He gathered his host of noble men,
Brave knights so strong and true;
They readied horses, took up swords
And cheered as pennants flew.

The knights rode out with God's blessing
Their ladies waved farewell.
They trusted in Arthur their lord
To fight the Saxon rebel.

In the shadow of Mount Badon
The British army camped.
The horses caught their riders' moods,
And impatiently they stamped.

Arthur stood and gave a speech:
"The Saxons broke my peace,
And God shall surely aid our cause.
Their power will decrease.

Victorious we will be this day,
We have a greater troop.
The Saxons will before us fall
Upon them we will swoop."

He raised Excalibur up high;
The battle cries began.
The ranks of Saxons waited there
Across the valley's span.

The pagans were a fearsome sight
All clad in gilded mail;
The spears were glinting in the sun;
They thought they could not fail.

King Arthur and his bold knights charged,
Their noble horses reared.
The Dragon banner proudly waved.
The King's great host was feared.

The two great armies shortly met,
With a violent clash of swords.
Of all the knights who fought that day,
None were ever cowards.

The Britons won at Mount Badon,
In glory they were shod.
The tale of Arthur's victory
Will echo in our blood.

And though this happened long ago,
The legend still lives on;
Of knights who fought and won the day
For glory and Mount Badon.

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)