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zcat_abroad) wrote2006-01-31 03:55 pm
zcat_abroad) wrote2006-01-31 03:55 pm
Finally, a note from our sponser....
Well, I'm mostly posting to show off my cool new icon - thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
theunshaven for pointing me to ghengis, where I got it from.
Time has gone fast. The best bit of the holiday period was having a holiday - seezcatcurious's post. Once having recovered from nasty bug, I went back to uni. There is no rest for the wicked or the PhD student.
So I have been battling with a conference paper, to be given on the weekend. The first draft sounded like a coffee break-conversation in a factory, saidzcatcurious. My supervisor had apparently not wanted to sound quite so critical, but was glad zcc had brought it up. So now you see me, having written a much more formal account, and still feeling very fuzzy about the conclusion, trying to waste time 'til I can pick him up at 5pm.
I've taken up going to the gym, 'cos they had a good special on ($80 for 8 weeks at the YMCA) and I tend to eat when trying to study. Last week I went every day, 3 times for the exercise, and twice for the pool. It is the pool that made me sign up at the Y rather than here at Uni - I use it as a treat.
I have more tutoring this semster, for a paper I never took, 'cos it either didn't exist at the time, or I thought I didn't want more Chaucer. So I have a few Middle English texts to read, which shouldn't take long.
More worrying is the fact that somehow, by the end of the semester, I have to have earned a B+ or higher in Anglo-Norman (Old French with a twist), in a paper which doesn't actually have any marking schedule, 'cos it's been made up specially for me. I did NOT spend enough time on it last semester, and somehow need to LEARN the thing now.
And not forget Latin at the same time.
My brain hurts.
theunshaven for pointing me to ghengis, where I got it from.Time has gone fast. The best bit of the holiday period was having a holiday - see
zcatcurious's post. Once having recovered from nasty bug, I went back to uni. There is no rest for the wicked or the PhD student. So I have been battling with a conference paper, to be given on the weekend. The first draft sounded like a coffee break-conversation in a factory, said
zcatcurious. My supervisor had apparently not wanted to sound quite so critical, but was glad zcc had brought it up. So now you see me, having written a much more formal account, and still feeling very fuzzy about the conclusion, trying to waste time 'til I can pick him up at 5pm.I've taken up going to the gym, 'cos they had a good special on ($80 for 8 weeks at the YMCA) and I tend to eat when trying to study. Last week I went every day, 3 times for the exercise, and twice for the pool. It is the pool that made me sign up at the Y rather than here at Uni - I use it as a treat.
I have more tutoring this semster, for a paper I never took, 'cos it either didn't exist at the time, or I thought I didn't want more Chaucer. So I have a few Middle English texts to read, which shouldn't take long.
More worrying is the fact that somehow, by the end of the semester, I have to have earned a B+ or higher in Anglo-Norman (Old French with a twist), in a paper which doesn't actually have any marking schedule, 'cos it's been made up specially for me. I did NOT spend enough time on it last semester, and somehow need to LEARN the thing now.
And not forget Latin at the same time.
My brain hurts.