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[readingredhead]

I am strangely busy.

I mean, okay, I should expect some degree of insanity. I'm taking 18 units worth of classes, co-teaching another 2 units worth. I work an average of 8 hours a week for pay and intern for another 4-6 unpaid. I am in two literature classes, each of which requires a good deal of reading and writing, and I am in two writing workshops. For one of those, I don't have to write short stories, but I do have to write extended and thoughtful critiques of student stories. I average 6 pages (single-spaced) of written short fiction criticism a week, between these two classes.

But this month is particularly difficult. I'm busy with something every weekend, even if the things don't take up the whole weekend. Also, I'm thinking I might be getting sick again, and the very idea of illness makes me want to cry. I don't have time to be sick. And yet apparently I have time to stay up late so that I don't get enough sleep so that my immune system isn't terribly strong so that my mother tells me it's my fault I'm sick (and really, it probably is).

I am behind on reading for my Milton class. I hear that for other people, this is normal, but not for me. I was ahead so much in that class that I haven't read for perhaps a month, but am only just now getting behind.

I made printer's pie today in printing class (which sounds much more fun than it is). Basically it's a nice way of saying that you screwed up some lines and will have to spend painstaking hours fixing them. I don't know why it's called after something as delicious as pie.

I have a 10-page paper due for one of my classes at the end of the month. I'm writing for Script Frenzy again, and I won't let myself lose...but the paper is due the day after the end of the frenzy.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE. I did finish my short story for tomorrow. I did get an A on a paper that I wrote while terribly ill. And I did watch a pretty good episode of Castle.

Okay. So life could be worse.

Comments

[spadleader88.livejournal.com]

don't get sick! all those things will be shot if you dont keep healthy and i'd hate to see you more stressed because of that...

also, i hate when names are misleading, like printer's pie. i totally pictured one of those Little Debbie's chocolate cupcake thingies with white frosting in the middle. i'm sorry it ended up being lame. maybe if the name was changed people would understand that it's not something we want to create.

Castle looks good, but i haven't watched it yet. They show commercials a lot. lol

Good luck!!! <3

[pippins-smile.livejournal.com]

We are so very alike, my dear. I think we'd rather be burning the candle at both ends, rushing running crazy busy than spending a week with nothing to do but relax. Don't get me wrong; relaxing is nice, but even if it drives me to insanity, I'd rather have things to do.

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

SO TRUE. I was actually just writing about this in my journal for my creative writing class. I just can't be non-busy!

[transientrain.livejournal.com]

When life isn't circling around finals, I will then turn my attentions to your story. :)

[eristocracy.livejournal.com]

The obsequies, at which many friends of the deceased were present, were carried out by (certainly Hynes wrote it with a nudge from Corny) Messrs H. J. O'Neill and Son, 164 North Strand Road. The mourners included: Patk. Dignam (son), Bernard Corrigan (brother-in-law), Jno. Henry Menton, solr, Martin Cunningham, John Power, .)eatondph 1/8 ador dorador douradora (must be where he called Monks the dayfather about Keyes's ad) Thomas Kernan, Simon Dedalus, Stephen Dedalus B. ,4., Edw. J. Lambert, Cornelius T. Kelleher, Joseph M'C Hynes, L. Boom, CP

^ From Project Gutenberg's copy of Ulysses. This section references a poorly typeset page in a fictional edition of a Dublin newspaper, but I believe it was mistyped when compared to the novel.