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beccaelizabethThe most annoying thing about not being able to stay awake all day is ending up awake at night. On the plus side I only have afternoon lessons tomorrow, so that could work out.
The usual plan for alternate wednesdays is to go to the pub for NSFG meets, but my decision to not have a cold oddly enough didn't stop me using all the tissues and falling asleep a lot so that didn't happen.
My email seems to have been wonky recently. I'm getting messages straggling in from the last couple of days, rather late and in no particular order. It's not just comments, or I'd figure LJ or DW was having a thing, it's all the messages, including those from my employee wondering if she was picking me up from the pub tonight so it's lucky she decided to phone when I didn't reply. So if I don't reply to anything it's probably cause I didn't get it yet.
Not that I tend to get much messages. I think I miss a crucial stage in the whole 'social' thing somewhere. Also my journal is boring.
I did reading for class today. pastorals and antipastorals. which means people being all lalala shephards and pipes and maidens lalala on the one hand and on the other people being all actually it's bloody hard work, no my work is harder, no mine, with the guy complaining the women sit around and chat and the woman complaining they work the clock around and there's this bloke writing poems that say they sit around and chat. Funnily enough I find the one about the musical shepherd the least plausible. Also there's some poems complaining about enclosure and how the land got all chopped up small with No Entry signs all over it. I suspect this will contrast later with the dude who did all that wandering and poems about flowers and stuff. ... yes I'm a lit student and will have exams on this later. that's later. this is only the second week.
I tried doing theory reading too. It was interesting but then I fell asleep. And tomorrow I have to take that book back. I did read the whole of the introduction, that might be helpful.
I also have to read The Vicar of Wakefield. There's an edition specified on the reading list but I'm reading it on http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2667/2667-h/2667-h.htm on account of it being cheaper. It is really really boring. It is boring with boringer on top. It is so boring it is making a little black hole of boring. I'm having to bribe myself with fanfic to finish chapters, and chapters only take a couple of minutes. It's about stupid sanctimonious prideful people doing things they don't notice are stupid until looooooong after the reader has noticed, and then going and being stupid some more. Presumably the value to the reader is not being as stupid as these people. However when the bar is set so very low I don't find that particularly flattering. Boring.
I would rather be watching Star Trek. Apparently this Friday on Channel One is the last episode of Star Trek ever (so far). I still tend to have missed the beginnings of seasons though so there's bunches I haven't watched even in the shows I've watched. I could get the DVDs and be more systematic about it.
I like being all well better than being a little bit ill. Biology is inconvenient. Star Trek medicine is usually quite tempting, but on Enterprise it's mostly squirmy, so no thanks.
Also at college in the Satire lessons we get to study lots of ick and eeew and disgusting. Last week was about eating babies (and people who title their newspaper articles 'a modest proposal' should probably look that up first, because it didn't look like they knew). This week was Hogarth and lots of series of pictures which are mostly about dying of syphilis. There are also ones that are about dying of gin. Next week will be about sex and shit. Clearly this is a highly useful module. (Ick.)
Humans make me grumpy. But they're also all the interesting.
The usual plan for alternate wednesdays is to go to the pub for NSFG meets, but my decision to not have a cold oddly enough didn't stop me using all the tissues and falling asleep a lot so that didn't happen.
My email seems to have been wonky recently. I'm getting messages straggling in from the last couple of days, rather late and in no particular order. It's not just comments, or I'd figure LJ or DW was having a thing, it's all the messages, including those from my employee wondering if she was picking me up from the pub tonight so it's lucky she decided to phone when I didn't reply. So if I don't reply to anything it's probably cause I didn't get it yet.
Not that I tend to get much messages. I think I miss a crucial stage in the whole 'social' thing somewhere. Also my journal is boring.
I did reading for class today. pastorals and antipastorals. which means people being all lalala shephards and pipes and maidens lalala on the one hand and on the other people being all actually it's bloody hard work, no my work is harder, no mine, with the guy complaining the women sit around and chat and the woman complaining they work the clock around and there's this bloke writing poems that say they sit around and chat. Funnily enough I find the one about the musical shepherd the least plausible. Also there's some poems complaining about enclosure and how the land got all chopped up small with No Entry signs all over it. I suspect this will contrast later with the dude who did all that wandering and poems about flowers and stuff. ... yes I'm a lit student and will have exams on this later. that's later. this is only the second week.
I tried doing theory reading too. It was interesting but then I fell asleep. And tomorrow I have to take that book back. I did read the whole of the introduction, that might be helpful.
I also have to read The Vicar of Wakefield. There's an edition specified on the reading list but I'm reading it on http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2667/2667-h/2667-h.htm on account of it being cheaper. It is really really boring. It is boring with boringer on top. It is so boring it is making a little black hole of boring. I'm having to bribe myself with fanfic to finish chapters, and chapters only take a couple of minutes. It's about stupid sanctimonious prideful people doing things they don't notice are stupid until looooooong after the reader has noticed, and then going and being stupid some more. Presumably the value to the reader is not being as stupid as these people. However when the bar is set so very low I don't find that particularly flattering. Boring.
I would rather be watching Star Trek. Apparently this Friday on Channel One is the last episode of Star Trek ever (so far). I still tend to have missed the beginnings of seasons though so there's bunches I haven't watched even in the shows I've watched. I could get the DVDs and be more systematic about it.
I like being all well better than being a little bit ill. Biology is inconvenient. Star Trek medicine is usually quite tempting, but on Enterprise it's mostly squirmy, so no thanks.
Also at college in the Satire lessons we get to study lots of ick and eeew and disgusting. Last week was about eating babies (and people who title their newspaper articles 'a modest proposal' should probably look that up first, because it didn't look like they knew). This week was Hogarth and lots of series of pictures which are mostly about dying of syphilis. There are also ones that are about dying of gin. Next week will be about sex and shit. Clearly this is a highly useful module. (Ick.)
Humans make me grumpy. But they're also all the interesting.