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She has forbidden me from shedding any clothes while in San Francisco, and when I assured her my two friends are both female and lesbian she then forbid me from coming back married.

No fun, no fun, no fun!

"Don't forget," she said, "people have camera-phones now... with VIDEO."

Yes, mother.

She then pointed out several other previous cases of Pischina-getting-into-trouble-in-SF, the least of which was getting a ticket for "almost mowing down 20 pedestrians back there." I had kindly informed the policeman that there were NOT 20 pedestrians back there, but merely around six... but he didn't really seem impressed. It was an expensive ticket.

Then when I informed Charleen that I was the driver for our Bay Area Road Trip Extravaganza (as my fellow student calls it) Charleen told me I needed to have my friends sign a waiver. For what? "Emotional trauma caused by being in a vehicle driven by you."

Now I ask you, what kind of friend would say stuff like this???
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A friend who knows me very very very well. And who has cleared her schedule on Sunday so she can come bail us out of jail if needed.

I actually went to State Farm yesterday just to make sure my car insurance was completely paid up. I'm sure we'll be fine! Just good, clean fun for us! I swear, we'll really be studying at the LIBRARY.

;-D

Ticking down

No more finals until Monday, but I take my GRE Exam in 9 hours.
8:00am Saturday I'll be working my way through a 3+ hour test, WOOOO. It's a computerized test so I'll have my scores right away, except for my 2 essay scores - which are the only scores I really need anyway, hah. I'll have those scores in about 2 weeks.
I'll be stopping at Starbucks to energize up on my way there.

Then in the afternoon I'll be giving my car a good scrubbing, inside and out. The inside is full of books, papers, crap, empty coffee cups and water bottles, etc. And it's dusty. The outside is just Dirty. I don't think I actually got to the inside-car-washing at the end of last semester, so the poor car really needs it.

Then Sunday... FUN TIme! It's off to San Francisco with two of my friends for drinking and Shakespeare. What's more fun than that?

It's going to be a big weekend, and I'm glad a lot of it is going to be spent in air conditioned buildings. This heat really sucks.

It is FUCKING HOT in San Jose and especially in this house.

Monday I picked up my signed Major forms from the English Department and went over to turn in my graduation forms. Three more classes and I'm done! With my BA anyway.

I got my Spenser essay back and received another A with another comment that I need to turn it into a conference paper - that professor is determined to get me to a conference!

Today I confirmed my GRE Exam for Saturday morning. I'm so excited! I can't wait!!!

Sunday I'm going to see Midsummer Night's Dream with two adult females. That may seem a wierd statement, but I realized yesterday that it has been OVER FIVE YEARS since I went out with a FEMALE FRIEND and WITHOUT KIDS. Ever since Eliza moved to San Diego and I started school, I have not gone anywhere without my kids except for a few things with Scott. I've gone to lots of great places and done some great things, and actually I LOVE doing things with my kids, but it feels really great to go out with some adult friends who are not males. I'm going to have to do it more often.

Anyway, the Midsummer Night's Dream show looks incredible, and if you didn't already you really should click the link and watch the preview. I'm super excited even though I have to drive to San Francisco (and my friends will quickly figure out what a mistake it was to assign driving to me, heh), but it's a matinee, and we're going to get drinks before the show. So... there will be good and loud times. Sunday is going to be Fun Fun Fun.

The funny thing is I'm just as excited about taking the GRE on Saturday. I guess because that almost makes me an official graduate student. I can't believe I'm almost there!

No, Colin, No! Eat something, Please!!!

Oh Lordy, someone please give Colin Farrell a sandwich, extra cheese, please, because whatever movie role it is that made him lose this much weight has just sucked the hawtness right out of him. Egads!!!

What English Majors do when school is done:

1. Play endless stupid word games on Facebook
2. Sit and read their Literary Criticism book... just for the heck of it

Turned in my last paper today. This is the class where the professor hates us all for some reason. As we left I asked if she was going to email comments on our papers since we won't get them back for two weeks. She said, "No, I don't want to do that because you'll just get upset."

Wow. She didn't even LOOK at my paper yet, but she already knows we're getting bad grades. Which... is what we expected from her.

Today she told us that for our final we'll be writing a criticism essay on either this novel or that novel... which means... we have to read BOTH novels before our final????

I hate that class. I'm so glad I'm at least PASSING it.

So that's it, all I have are two more days of classes and then a messed up 2-week long final schedule with some finals at 7:15am and some days I have finals all day long. I just need to re-read a few Canterbury Tales, look over The English Patient, The Waste Land and Great Gatsby, try to review The Faerie Queen, read two novels ...and try not to fail the Spanish final.

I have a solid A in Spanish right now, all I need is a B in the class and I'll be done with Spanish forever. I never thought I'd see this day, that's for sure.

And now I shut down and head out to Aptos.

I interrupt my essay writing to say that this season's Survivor is the BEST SURVIVOR SEASON EVER. I have never sat and laughed my ass off at Survivor for so many weeks IN A ROW. If you guys haven't been watching, you've missed some Good Good Stuff.

It's actually quite amazing that a bunch of women actually got their acts together and joined forces. IT'S ABOUT TIME. Oh my god I have tears running down my face from laughing so hard.

And now I go back to writing. I'm up to a whole 940 words. Heh.

A sprint to the finish line

Okay, here we go: My last paper is due tomorrow morning. I'm 900 words into the 2000 word paper. I have a big frozen lasagna in the oven and a large glass of Mt. Dew with ice next to me. I have my stupid Waste Land book in my lap and the laptop on and Judge Judy on TV...

I really hope I can get this last one out.

Bring on the Mt. Dew

Tonight is D-Day(/Night). My last paper is due tomorrow morning. It's the 2000 word Literary Criticism of The Waste Land, and I'm 900 words in, 1100 to go. I am exhausted and my brain is fried I don't feel like I have the energy to finish this, but I'm going to get a 2-liter of Mt. Dew on the way home, send Spike out for burritos, and set down to writing.

Mt. Dew = Magical Essay Writing Juice

From Friday afternoon on it will be all alcohol all the time through the weekend. Now I understand why college students drink so much.

Guess what I'm going to see, probably with my favorite professor?

Midsummer Night's Dream.

Click on it with your speakers on and watch the preview.

And then tell me you're not jealous.
:-D

1100 words to go

Super Fantastic Spenser essay all complete!
After school today I work on my Spanish presentation (on Daddy Yankee, HAAAR) with my partners for Wednesday.
Then I finish the last 1100 words of my Literary Criticism paper, due Friday.

That's about IT, Folks!!!

Turned in my Chaucer essay today, it came in at 3300 words (and 11 pages with 2 pages of works cited).

My Spenser essay has to be 2000 words (around 5 pages) and I'm 150 words into it (due tomorrow) but I finally have a good thesis in mind and it's progressing. I can always count on good old Ovid for inspiration.

I have my Mt. Dew here next to me and expect to be up until at least 1am.

I am happily writing away!

At 2700 words and 2 pages of works cited I am all finished but the conclusion. I think I'm going to put that paper away until tomorrow, take a break from it and then write the conclusion with a clear head. Just in time to print it for school!

And now I BEGIN my 2000 word paper on Spenser's Epithalamion. Don't hate, I know you want to write one too.

I can't believe I've written over 3000 words in only a few days... My cold isn't 100% gone (because I'm not getting enough sleep or healthy food) but as long as I can keep it at arm's length I'll be okay.

I CAN'T BELIEVE I ONLY NEED TO PASS THREE MORE CLASSES TO GRADUATE!!!!!!!

Progress

2000 words done on my Chaucer essay, 1000 words to go, due tomorrow.
(sighhhhhh...)

Nothing done but the title of my Age of Elizabeth essay, 2000 words to go, due Tuesday.

900 words done on my Waste Land essay, 1100 more to go, due Friday.

On Saturday I'm going to sleeeeeeep.

The first 2-3 pages of our 2000 word papers in Literary Criticism are due Friday morning. I just finished over three pages and 900 words so I'm printing out my copies for class right now (1:00am). We had a choice of The English Patient or The Waste Land to write on. You can guess what everyone else chose... I decided to be different and take the harder route and chose The Waste Land. Now that I'm over my cold I think it's going to be a good paper.

The entire thing isn't due until next Friday, so after this that paper is going to sit until Tuesday.

Starting tomorrow evening I'll be frantically pounding out my 3000 word research paper for my Chaucer class. It's about the Blood Libel stories and Chaucer's "Prioress' Tale". Nice and bloody and gory - it's going to be a fun paper. Oh yeah, and I haven't started it yet and it's due MONDAY.

I just discussed an entirely different approach for my Age of Elizabeth paper with my professor today. So again I'm going to be different and instead of writing about The Faerie Queene again I'll be writing about Spenser's Epithalamion. And that's due Tuesday.

I'm sure it all sounds boring, but now that I'm not sick I'm having fun and am thriving under the pressure. And after the papers? School is all over except for the Finals.

WOOOOOOO

And now I go to bed so I can be at school by 9:00am. Six hours of sleep, Yayy!

Except for a hacking cough that is exhausting me (and about to split a blood vessel in my brain) today is the first day I've felt better since Friday evening. So that's... four and a half days of writing WASTED. WHY do I get sick at the end of EVERY DAMN SEMESTER????

I got one page done today and lots of research for a paper which is due next Friday, but of which I need to bring the first three pages to school THIS Friday for peer review.

I got research done last night that will help for the 3000 word Chaucer paper that is due... MONDAY. That I have not started WRITING yet.

And for my class on Spenser? We are still at Zero, even though I sat staring at my computer screen all weekend long with the book open next to me, but my doped up brain couldn't think of one coherent word to type.

So, that's where we are. I'm not sure I've ever been this crunched for final papers, but I know it's been close. At least now I'm better. We'll be eating takeout all week and I won't be leaving the house this weekend until I have my Chaucer paper finished.

No matter what that sounded like, I actually finally feel optimistic that I can finish everything, now that I'm well again - just a little stressed about time, but I know I'll get them done.

Okay, off to bed I go.

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