it's that time again

END OF SEMESTER!

We took a break to go out for dinner last night for Holly's birthday which was nice.

In about two weeks I should be done with everything.

Between now and then:

-finishing up misc. Italian homework today.
-Three big ass final papers.
-Three final exams (well, one of them is the last day of class.)
-proctoring the final exam for the Spanish classes I teach.
-doing grades for the classes I teach.

I've condensed the list to only five items but they will be taking up all my free time for at least the next week and a half or so.

I swore to myself I wouldn't procrastinate like I did last semester. I broke this promise.

The good thing is, if my calculations are correct, and I'm pretty sure they are, next semester I only need to take two classes.

I am still coughing; in fact, my cough never went away and it got worse after I thought I was better. My doctor prescribed me some syrup w/pseudophed, hydrochodone, and guaifenisen, so if I seem to be under the influence of narcotics, or if I am hacking up some nasty phlegm, making some awful sounds, that's why.

things can only get better

right?

WAS sick

I ended up having fevers on top of my nasty cough, etc., and instead of getting better, everything got worse. It was so bad on Friday morning that Holly convinced me to stay home; which I did. And I went to the Dr. who said I had sinusitis and bronchitis and gave me antibiotic samples so that I wouldn't have to buy a prescription, which was awesome of him.

I'm feeling better today by far but still have a bit of a cough.

The unthinkable happened last Thursday in the class I was supposed to have an exam in. Two of the people in my class (there are only five of us) had the chutzpah to ask the professor to postpone the exam and he agreed. I couldn't believe it! I thought we would have been better off just taking it then but out of pity for those two I acted as though I were indifferent. It's not as if I suddenly had extra time to study, especially being sick. So now it's on for tomorrow and the presentation I have to make in that class is postponed yet again.

Time to get to work.

I know everyone who knows me already knows that school is killing me and that's all I talk about lately. I'm sorry if I'm obsessed. I know life is always stressful for everyone else too. I don't mean to be a dick.

unease

My cold/allergy symptoms have worsened.

I have a Spanish Morphology and Syntax exam tomorrow and as of the moment am a bit underprepared, but at least I've got my evening, early morning, and lunch planns taken care of since my work is indeed cut out for me. I'm going to skip my 11:00 class too (Italian. Mi dispiace, professoressa.), so I can squeeze in another hour and fifteen minutes of study.

Tonight all this will be punctuated by a trip to the grocery store and some chores, and of course, a viewing of LOST, if it's a new episode.

it's going

I don't know if I've got a cold or if it's just my allergies but either way I've got some cold symptoms. It's probably my allergies, what with the infinite supply of pollen here this time of year.

Tuesdays are long days for me and I have no insightful or interesting thoughts at the moment but felt like crapping out a few lines of text here anyway.

I dodged a bullet today by coincidence; one of my profs cancelled class, so I won't have to give a presentation on aspect and "meaning changing" verbs in Spanish until next week. Of course that day I have to give another presentation in a different class. It's all the same to me really. I can definitely use the extra week to prepare better.

I've got about three more weeks of hell and then the semester is over. Summer promises to keep me busy as I try to get my reading lists for comps created and get a head start on the reading thereof as well as designing a project for collecting some data for my thesis, not to mention doing plenty of interpreting and hopefully some translating too.

BUT not having classes will be very nice. That way I won't feel compelled to turn down a Monday night happy hour invitation like I did yesterday (sorry Todd and Lindsey.)

what the fuck

So I'm sitting here in the computer "laboratory" provisioned for us graduate students of the Dept. of Romance Langauges here at the academy and a member of the office staff searches me out to inform me that a doctor's office is on the line, having called the department's main phone number hoping to have someone here interpret for them over the phone for a Spanish speaking patient, and of course, for free.

I assume that those who need to receive this message are not reading this, and I probably prefer it that way, but if I could send a message to area physicians, it would be: If you need a Spanish interpreter, the academy is not the place to look, particularly not at the exact moment you need one, to say the very least...