I'll be getting in to town around 6PM, with all luck!

Anybody want to do dinner? After that, I'll have practice with the lovely girls in my skit. :)

Cosplay plans:

Friday: Lenna(?) (FF5) - I want a third cosplay, and I have her on hand. So! (Unfortunately, her shoes are super super uncomfy, so. We'll see. Will definitely wear diffrent shoes to practice in.)

Saturday: Aerith (FF7) - courtesy of the lovely Tess~

Sunday: Lana (Phoenix Wright) - Almost done! Still working on her epaulettes and medals. WOO HANDSEWING god I hate working on cosplay while at college. NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN.

So yes, thoughts on Lenna? I love that dress to pieces. Though I suppose I should see if it still fits me first - I think I've slimmed down since I got to college. o.O;

Class tomorrow is optional. UGH THANK GOD. I'm cooking chicken tikka masala for my friends as a Thanksgiving dinner, and my original schedule was:

9:40-11:00 - Class
1:00-5:00 - Proctoring Exam

So I had to do prep work in a two hour span also including my lunch, and then do all the cooking at 5. And wake up early-ish, which is hard since I've been getting shit sleep lately.

Now I can sleep in tomorrow, do my prep work leisurely (I have to bone and skin some chicken thighs and get it in a marinade), and then proctor (while I'm doing cosplay stuff).

It's just an extra hour and a half-ish, but. SO HAPPY.

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Also, have to edit/rewrite my proposal before Friday. I figured out what I was doing and cleared up my research question yesterday, and he hasn't graded my proposal yet, so he wants an updated copy. Luckily, he doesn't want me to kill myself finding extra literature for it, so it's just clarifying/updating what we already went over. Still. :

OKAY, BRAIN? We need to have a TALK.

Since midnight Friday/Saturday, I HAVE:

Done stats homework
Read three stories in my Raymond Carver book
Written a 500-word mini-essay for my English class
Hemmed a skirt
Fixed up a jacket
Cleaned up data for 250~ subjects on 150~ variables
Pulled out qualitative responses for said 250~ subjects and put them, numbered by subject number, into Word
Ran a review session
Read and took notes on SIXTEEN SOURCES
WROTE AN ELEVEN PAGE PAPER

I haven't been able to sleep in, my only real break was playing D&D, and I'm only now finished at dinner time on Sunday. My back is finally almost okay. I've managed to avoid getting sick despite everybody around me keeling over dead. I have a junior's course load at LEAST, am planning two fucking studies for the next year, handling off-campus-study plans, working two arbitrarily assigned hours jobs, and balancing a relationship on top of all of it.

SO CAN I PLEASE FEEL ACCOMPLISHED AND RELIVED? INSTEAD OF EVEN MORE STRESSED OUT?

D:

6/15 pages written, might have to cut by the end of this!

Now to go run a review session without the class textbook.

And then more writing. I WILL FINISH THIS TODAY, GODDAMIT.

For the rest of the week:

Monday - Class, therapy
Tuesday - Pick up ingredients from Damon, review session
Wednesday - Meeting with advsisor, proctoring
Thursday - Proctoring, cooking
Friday - class, trip home, AUSA
Saturday - AUSA
Sunday - AUSA

lkfjakldhaksh my life T_T I STILL HAVEN'T SLEPT IN ANY TIME IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS BECAUSE OF MY ROOMMATE, TOO.

EDIT: Paper is finished (though it's only 11 pages - minimum page number is 10)! Review session is through! I... don't feel very accomplished. D:

I mostly just feel bad I didn't hit the 15-page limit.

Again, I've been very busy, so posting daily updates hasn't been working. I've been RPing still, of course, but I still don't have a page number. I also hemmed a skirt and fixed up a jacket yesterday. And drew two pictures of Farsiris.

Heavy, heavy work period for school right now. Yesterday, I did stats homework, wrote a 500-word mini note for English, took notes on my sources for my anth paper, cleaned up data for 250-ish participants and pulled qualitative data out for them, hemmed that skirt and fixed that jacket, read the first story I have to read for Monday, played D&D, and promptly collapsed. XD;

Today, I have two more stories to read and a 15 page anth paper to write, along with a review session to run and probably other things I'm not remembering right now.

Uuuugh. Why can't I feel accomplished after yesterday? D:

I've been busy, so!

I've been RPing, but haven't gotten everything transfered over to another file.

I've also been doodling.

But that's about it. :

November 8th

Words written: 233 in Summer Snow
Pages of RP: 70

Fairly unproductive, but I'm feeling a bit better. Got most of my introduction to my proposal written, as well.

Total RP pages: 58
Yarn: Played with the new spinning wheel

That's it. :

First, a meme:

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So, I found out the other day that if I go to New Zealand for study abroad next spring, I can't do summer science that summer. I think I've figured out what I'm going to do, but I still feel so overwhelmed.

Current plan is:

Spring '10: Independent Study (intro/extra experiment)
Summer '10: Summer Science (intro/extra OR creepypasta) OR internship
Fall'10: Independent Study (intro/extra) IF summer does not happen/we don't do intro/extra
Spring '11: New Zealand
Summer '11: Internship, honors preparation
Fall '11: Honors
Spring '11: Honors

So I'm doing research every section except for study abroad. FUN STUFF. I mean, I want to, but this is on top of all my classes, and after Independent Study I have to have a full four-class-a-semester workload. Plus my minor. I know that this is technically less than some people in other majors, but to me it's... a bit scary. I JUST WANT TO WORK IN A LAB, GUYS.


Also, schedules were released. I only got into two classes.

Guaranteed are:

Personality Psychology - MWF - 9:10-10:00
Intro to Logic - MWF - 1:10-2:00

I'm going to add

Victorian Culture and Society - TR - 2:40-4:00

I'm on the waitlist for Drawing. If I don't fall in love with Victorian Culture on the first day and a spot opens up, I'll switch to that.

Independent Study will be my fourth class.

Again, everything here has been okayed and figured out, but I'm terrified about it for some reason. My anxiety levels are through the roof, and I'm all jittery and generally not happy. I made an appointment with my advisor to talk stuff out, though, and I have an appointment with my new therapist Monday at 3.


Classwork wise:

2-page brief version of our independent proposal is due next Friday. I'm flailing a bit, because I KNOW MY METHODOLOGY but haven't synthesized ALL of my background stuff, so I still have a lot to do. And Method isn't even on this part of the proposal. It's just introduction/background and hypotheses. This is made harder because there's no prior research in this area, so I have to get tangentially related sources that help support my theory. My theory is actually based on observation, so... working backwards.

15 page anth paper is due at the beginning of December, and I've found most/all of my sources. I have an outline. But I'm scared and lazy and so not writing yet.

15 page psych report for my research methods class is due at the end of December, but I really should write the intro/method section now so I don't go crazy later on. But again... synthesizing for introductions is apparently my greatest fear when it comes to psych papers. :<

I was feeling really good for the first half of the week, but now I just want to curl up and make everything disappear. Nothing's really that bad, it's just getting to me for some reason.

November 6th

Pages of RP: 46
Cooking: Four loaves of focaccia, potato and leek soup for charity dinner.





And here are the doodles I promised: