Dec 10 2008
it’s too early to brain, so i blog
hi. so i'm officially done with classes, now i just have these two finals to deal with. the 20th century lit one is going to eat me and the autobiography is still not exactly conceived. there's obviously not enough coffee in me to get me past reading the first monster question on the lit final and just staring, probably with my mouth open, as if i expect the words to change and make it a bit more - oh what's the word - possible. since i suppose putting the question on the interwebs would be somehow illegal or somehting, i'll just tell you it's two questions, due monday at noon; the first question wishes me to essentially "chart a course" through 150 years of literature citing no less than 8 authors. there's a little more to it as well. i still haven't absorbed the second question, because i just keep reading the first one and asking it to answer itself. it's something about picking two or three writers that exemplify something, blah, blah, blah. great. we've only read about 400 different people this semester, should be a snap. really, i have that sort of cognitive power, i do.
nevermind my autobiography due the next day. no idea what to do with that. seriously, my life is not that interesting. you know this, you read this blog. and most of my "me" writing comes out in poetry, which is fine, except i haven't written anything in forever due to lack of time and a general exhaustion. bah. though i haven't sat down to try to write the thing, and i usually don't know much until i actually sit down to write something, so i'm not completely horrified by that. only slightly. but really the other one, the 50% of my grade one, is much more unsettling and due the day before, so it takes up the brain space i guess. though there was some discussion of a few of us getting together tomorrow or sometime to drink, um, discuss.
still have no idea whether i'll even be in school next semester or even ever again, but after three, count 'em, three emails trying to get the chair of the english dept. to set up a meeting time, he actually responded and i'm meeting him friday. though i half expect to get there and find the door locked. but hopefully he can provide me with some sort of acceptable solution that will result in graduation no later than august, and even that thought pisses me off. and he is CERTAINLY going to explain to me how 3 of us came up with a class, had a professor to teach us and were shot down. bah. anyway. no more of that for now. i'm still feeling like and (maybe just foolishly) hoping that he'll be reasonable somehow and everything can work out for me to take two classes that might actually be helpful to me and freaking graduate on time already.
so anyway. we finally got our christmas tree on sunday and started decorating it and the house. then monday night after i got home from class we put the ornaments on it and now our house is magically christmassy. yay! i even wrapped a present yesterday, but only because it's for ben and was too big to hide, so i had no choice really.ooh! and we actually have a wreath. for real. ever year we never buy one because i always get the bottom branches from the tree and say i'm going to make one. shockingly, that never happened. not once. so this year we sucked it up and bought one of the cheap grapvine ones from michaels and took this wire-and-red-bead garland thingy i had and wired it to it and now have the perfect wreath, probably for less than $10. score.
saturday we went and did a fair amount of christmas shopping stuff, the kind we couldn't do online, including stuff for the dogs. ben put the bags on a shelf in the closet in his office. thing is, he rarely closes the door and that evening i see hayley in there, sniffing the air, standing on her hind legs trying to see. i told ben and said to keep the door closed. he said something along the lines of "yeah, yeah, i'll try." great. what if the kids realize there's no santa claus? what then, benjamin?!? yeesh.
alright. time to make another pot of coffee and see if maybe i can read that second question. going. going. yep. here i go.