I just read through all my half-a-zillion away messages in an attempt to find one to put up as my away message while I'm at my oral. None of them seemed appropriate. I nearly put a conversation with Del and Desire about falling apart, but that seemed wrong. I wound up chosing the Twelfth Night quote I ripped off for my title.
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11:18:36 AM,Wednesday 16 April 2003
One of the things I am proud of is my ability to take pills without water. It was birth control pills that taught me how to do it. (I have a hormone imbalance that they rebalance.) They're so small, and I started taking them freshman year, when I was in the top half of a Paca loft, and I always took them in my room, where I often didn't have water present. I can now take even my allegra, which are massively huge, without water. And echinicea tablets, although I haven't taken those in a while.
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11:06:04 AM,Wednesday 16 April 2003
Hector the fish is brilliant. He knows that when I turn the light that's next to his fishbowl on that I am going to feed him and he gets all excietd. It's really cute.
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10:20:31 AM,Wednesday 16 April 2003
One of my great joys this year is that I don't have to do a FAFSA. I still, you know, had to do taxes. But I will be getting money back, and I can use the 1040EZ, so it took me all of like 10 minutes to do them.
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10:16:40 AM,Wednesday 16 April 2003
How long is this pray-see thing supposed to be? I have about a page, and when I just read it, it took me two minutes.
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10:09:04 AM,Wednesday 16 April 2003
Interesting thought I just had, while writing my precis. I had always paralleled Achilles and Hector, because they are the greatest warriors on either side of the war. But their motives for fighting are so totally different. Hector is perhaps better paired with Patroclus, as they both fight to save the lives of those around them.
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09:49:17 AM,Wednesday 16 April 2003
I do actually have a quite good natural alarm clock. I woke up at 7:30 this morning and lay in bed for the next hour in a half, half sleeping, half freaking out about my oral. (I had this interesting dream about my oral where it was more like a tutorial. There were a bunch of us sitting around the table, talking about my paper. It went rather well, in the dream. After about half an hour dreamtime people stopped asking questions, and some people wandered away. I couldn't figure it out, but in my dream Mr. Maistrellis assured me that it was okay, that I'd done well, and could go.)
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09:47:02 AM,Wednesday 16 April 2003
Joshua Tree is a better CD for me to have in my alarm clock than When I Woke (Rusted Root.) I tend to wake violently, leaping out of bed, occasionally screaming, when woken suddenly. If someone walks in my room while I'm sleeping I always scream and usually jump out of bed. Joshua Tree has a crescendo at the beginning which manages to slowly wake me, rather than the sudden drums in "Drum Trip."
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09:41:17 AM,Wednesday 16 April 2003
So very nervous I feel a bit sick. I talked to Isadora yesterday, and she is sure I'll do fine and whatnot, and sent me a copy of her preysee (phonetics!). And assured me again that she's sure I'll do fine. And I feel vaguely as though I might vomit. My ear hurts still, so I took an ibuprophen. The nurse made me promise to eat something when I took them, but the thought of food in my stomach makes me feel even worse.
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09:19:39 AM,Wednesday 16 April 2003
Rereading my essay tonight I found missing words and misplaced commas. It distressed me.
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02:26:07 AM,Wednesday 16 April 2003
My oral is at 11:45 tomorrow. I'm a bit nervous. I'm going to skip my lab, so I can get a bit more sleep, and shower and show up looking like a respectable human being, rather than a person who stayed up too late rereading her paper and writing her precis (sp? What is that word?) and then stumbled off in the first cleanish clothes she could find to go to her lab class and then ran off to the BBC. I'm not particularly worried about food, cause the nervous thing will probably keep me from being hungry. It's the math class at one that I worry about. We will be going to 49 West in the evening in celebration.
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01:55:42 AM,Wednesday 16 April 2003
I glazed pots. Now I will sit around and wait for them to come out. I'm all excited. I really want to see them.
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02:03:31 PM,Tuesday 15 April 2003
I love George of the Jungle. It's so much fun.
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12:28:36 AM,Tuesday 15 April 2003
Yesterday my mom bought me a book called "Europe on a Shoelace" for my adventures in Europe this summer. They are buying my ticket and taking care of me while I'm in Geneva with my mom (and then Oxford for a weekend, and then maybe Bath and London) and then they will return to America and I get to go around and do whatever. So now I have to figure out how long I will be there. And I need to get a job as soon as I can when I go home, so I can make as much money as possible. I'm hoping to be able to wait tables where my stepbrother does, cause he makes good money, and I could put aside a good deal before going away.
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04:12:53 PM,Monday 14 April 2003
It frightens me that I only have one "normal" weekend left at St. John's.
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03:56:23 PM,Monday 14 April 2003
This morning I took bottles out of my family's recycling, wrapped them up in bags and smashed them with a hammer. I will then use them to glaze pots.
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10:08:12 PM,Sunday 13 April 2003
My jaw (maybe my jaw? I'm feeling pain in the jaw area, but I can't quite tell if it's the jaw that's hurting, or if it's actually in my ear) has been hurting on and off with varying degrees of intensity for about a week. When I hugged my mom this morning, I actually yelped. She said it might be an ear infection, and I should go talk to the school nurse. I've actually known this for a while, and if I hadn't been so paranoid about my computer on Friday, I'd've gone to see her rather than taking the machine down to see Dave. So tomorrow I will go to her. And hopefully it will be an ear infection rather than, say, something wrong with a tooth that would require a root canal.
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01:19:47 AM,Sunday 13 April 2003
Last night I went to see my sister's production of Lear. It was a bit disappointing. Their Edmound was so bad it was ridiculous. My sister I thought was good (Fool), and Kent, and Edgar was quite good. Edgar was walking around stage in his first scene and Lindsey leaned over and whispered "he looks like Hiram" we realized as the play progresed that he looked like Hiram (but not so stretched out), moved like Hiram (he even had that Hiram walk) and he occasionally laughed like him. It was crazy. The sisters were all decent. And Gloucster was very good. Lear was all right.
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10:22:09 AM,Saturday 12 April 2003
Dave Prosper got my computer working again. And he told me that my harddrive is about to die and I have to back it up as soon as I possibly can. So now that I am home, so is my computer, so I can do the backup thing.
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02:09:33 AM,Saturday 12 April 2003
Moira liked my poem!
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02:08:50 AM,Saturday 12 April 2003