Here's to crushing finals and papers, one at a time.
Or maybe a few at a time, if, like me, Netflix is thwarting your time management skills by putting all 7 seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Instant Watch.
Good luck everyone!
Sunday, May 9, 2010
The Finals Sickness
By some inverse relationship that exists just to make your life as a college student unendingly difficult, the more one needs good health to study and focus on finals, the more illnesses one contracts. So, it's crunch time, and I've come down with a fever, sore throat, runny nose, and general exhaustion. Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury to rest to get better, so I'll just have to deal with the endless bouts of coughing in between chapters of biology and chemistry.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Things keep happening...
I was going to bring my dress shirts to the dry cleaners yesterday morning, but I didn't. Today, I discovered/remembered that the buttons on the sleeves of the shirt I was going to wear tomorrow are somewhat cracked:
Had to find another shirt that wasn't too wrinkled. They were all too wrinkled. Luckily, one is wash-and-hang-dry, not dry-clean-or-iron. So I hung it up...
...and created an ungodly Doctor-Moreau-esque contraption from a Windex spray nozzle, and empty Pepsi bottle, and water...
...and sprayed it, and let it dry over the school day (with towel to catch drips, of course).
Not 100% perfect, but it'll do for another day of serving subpoenas, tracking down witnesses, looking for security cameras, and whatever else.
In other news, I somehow managed to spend all last night preparing for an oral presentation on my Law & Lit paper (an analysis of punishment theory, primarily that of Michel Foucault and Leon Radzinowicz, as played out in Camus's L'Etranger), and barely sounded coherent in class. I mean, I got a few laughs, which is always good, but my argument wasn't as concise and grammatically correct as it should have been, I rambled and searched for words. Oh well. Can't win 'em all.
I then proceeded to forget to hand in my last case brief for Pol Sci, and didn't remember until way after class ended, with the net result that I emailed it to the professor over an hour after the end of class--in other words, enough time had elapsed that I could, conceivably, have written it up after class. So I have nothing to prove that I actually did the homework by the assigned time, aside from any good-faith belief the professor has that I'm not a total slacker. Could be worse, I suppose.
Had to find another shirt that wasn't too wrinkled. They were all too wrinkled. Luckily, one is wash-and-hang-dry, not dry-clean-or-iron. So I hung it up...
...and created an ungodly Doctor-Moreau-esque contraption from a Windex spray nozzle, and empty Pepsi bottle, and water...
...and sprayed it, and let it dry over the school day (with towel to catch drips, of course).
Not 100% perfect, but it'll do for another day of serving subpoenas, tracking down witnesses, looking for security cameras, and whatever else.
In other news, I somehow managed to spend all last night preparing for an oral presentation on my Law & Lit paper (an analysis of punishment theory, primarily that of Michel Foucault and Leon Radzinowicz, as played out in Camus's L'Etranger), and barely sounded coherent in class. I mean, I got a few laughs, which is always good, but my argument wasn't as concise and grammatically correct as it should have been, I rambled and searched for words. Oh well. Can't win 'em all.
I then proceeded to forget to hand in my last case brief for Pol Sci, and didn't remember until way after class ended, with the net result that I emailed it to the professor over an hour after the end of class--in other words, enough time had elapsed that I could, conceivably, have written it up after class. So I have nothing to prove that I actually did the homework by the assigned time, aside from any good-faith belief the professor has that I'm not a total slacker. Could be worse, I suppose.
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