may 2008

12:00 a.m. - 1136 spam e-mails in the month of april.

writing my tempest essay rough draft for tomorrow's final shakespeare lecture. should be fun, don't you think?

may is quite possibly my favorite month of the year. it gets hot but it's not quite summer yet. school gets to that point where you're just aching for it to be over - in recent years, of course, this has turned true earlier and earlier into the merry month.

i have boatloads of work before we hit the bitter end of the school year, and i'm really not prepared for it in the least. i feel like i've completely fallen apart over the course of the semester and really don't want to go into why. there are too many factors, and of all the scapegoats to choose, i think that i, personally, am the most accurate party to blame. by this logic, i ought to keep my complaints to myself.

resolving to quit aim mafia for the next two weeks, period. shouldn't be too hard. i feel like this time i've got a better vision of what i'm trying to accomplish. i'm going to keep my goals realistic and will not plan too far ahead. for now, i'll stick to just the next 24 hours or so: rough draft, physics homework not to be blown off this time, and ece stuff.

this is gonna be a long night.

1:00 a.m. - starting to feel tired. feeling full from the potato skins and brisk iced tea i got from the vending machine downstairs. the transient conversation around me in the lounge has died down. did i mention? i'm in the lounge because i can't concentrate on my essay due to kreve's abysmal music and his insistence on blasting it. and before you go all 'lolpocrisy' on me, i've done almost two whole pages of my essay.

gamefaqs is making a big deal of grand theft auto iv outranking zelda: ocarina of time at the moment. not sure how long gtaiv will maintain the top spot honestly. it could go the distance. and while it wouldn't feel right to me, it has been ten years. this is massive.

oh, did i mention i watched the new house? one of the great things about that show is how incredibly consistently, stupidly funny it is. as opposed to, say, the office, whose quality fluctuates a lot and always manage to awkward you out a lot.

2:00 a.m. - the iced tea is just around finished. just checked pics of emma watson and honestly still don't get what drove or drives people so insane about her. maybe it's the accent.

wrapping up the rough draft for the night and about to start on the physics p-set. trying to keep everything straight in my head: physics, ece, self-evaluation for english.

thinking about the day's events. remembering the ece lecture and the fire drill. remembering making eye contact with judit during macroecon. remembering taking that quiz with watson and getting rocked. remembering the last ece section and winning those m&ms and drinking coke.

remembering dinner with steff at risley. remembering why i don't particularly enjoy eating at risley - feels kinda dingy, tables are all too large, packs up too early, music plays too softly. i could barely hear hey jude. it made me sad.

3:00 a.m. - decidedly not a fan of this physics assignment. quantum mechanics now. but you already knew that i wasn't a fan, didn't you? i am predictable. hoping to be done before 4. would mean i'd get some sleep.

4:00 a.m. - oh jeez it's 4. finishing/bsing overtime now.

yeah, just finished. tryin' to think if o'er the course of the last four hours i've missed anything.