*sighs or signs inserted here*

[readingredhead]

Thursday (3/6):

--study for Russian history (afternoon)
--bSpace post due for English by 5pm

Friday (3/7):

--meet with Tony Bliss at 10am
--talk to admissions office about IB credit (again)

Saturday (3/8):

--study for Russian history (time TBD)

Sunday (3/9):

--assorted homework and reading
--study for Shakespeare midterm

Monday (3/10)

--short story due
--2 short story critiques due
--read Book 1 Cantos 2-6 of The Faerie Queen

Tuesday (3/11)

--Shakespeare midterm at 12:30pm
--study for Russian history midterm
--IM soccer game at 9pm
--begin re-reading King Lear

Wednesday (3/12)

--study for Russian history midterm
--have read Book 1 Cantos 7-9 of The Faerie Queen
--UGIS 39B project proposal due

Thursday (3/13)

--Russian history midterm at 11am
--have King Lear read for Shakespeare

Things that are due and when they are due:
--bSpace post (tomorrow)
--short story (Monday)
--short story critiques (Monday)
--Book 1 Cantos 2-6 of The Faerie Queen (Monday)
--UGIS 39B project proposal (Wednesday)
--King Lear (Thursday)

Things I need to do in order to study adequately for midterms:
--finish reading Russian history reader
--review Russian history IDs
--review "In the Shadow of Revolution" summaries
--listen to recorded lectures for Russian history
--finish reading "In the Shadow of Revolution"
--review Russian history essay possibilities
--review passages discussed in Shakespeare class
--review notes for both classes

Is it a bad thing that this really isn't that much to do, and yet I have very little desire to do it all? Specifically, all the work for this Russian history class. I love the subject matter but it makes me nervous that 40% of my grade depends on this midterm. (Granted in the Shakespeare class it makes me nervous that I have no idea how much of my grade depends upon this midterm, but at least for that class we have two papers in addition to the midterm and final.) Oh, and I suppose for fiction, too. I don't want to write a short story. I don't think I've found one I can fall in love with. Sucks for me.

And yet this should not be difficult. I seriously have all the time in the world to do this stuff. So why is it that things still don't get done to the last minute? I didn't think I was that kind of procrastinator, but sure enough I haven't even done my laundry in a week and a half or cleaned up my impossibly messy desk and floorspace since moving back in. I don't like it. I just also don't like the idea of doing something about it.
--re-read the end of Hamlet

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Aw... yeah, this is seriously a low point in the semester. I think we all feel like zombies lately! I hope you have a semi-relaxing spring break though! Or as relaxing as a Cal spring break can be, seeing as we're on the semester system :(

On a good note though, I saw Professor Goldsmith today! It was a nice mood-upper!

[wax-wane.livejournal.com]

That was me, not some creepy stalker just so you know :)

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

I don't even know what it is, I just feel so much more lethargy now than I think I have so far this semester. Zombie is the way to say it.

I haven't seen Goldsmith since that poetry reading we were at...I miss his classes! I'm in a boring-as-hell English class right now and I wish that I could have another great Goldsmithian lecture!

And don't worry, I don't think you're a stalker -- I have come to assume that anonymous comments are yours! :)

[wax-wane.livejournal.com]

I just love how warm and personable he was, you know? My 45C professor is absolutely brilliant but she's also one of those serious, no-nonsense, theory-enthused, jargon-laden, intimidating types, so I really miss having a professor who can just talk to you like a normal person (and yet still be brilliant at the same time)!

Speaking of the poetry reading, it was intense! The first poet was my GSI for 45B so it was interesting seeing him as an artist rather than a teacher.