Song of the day: f(x) - All Mine

Things are busy and bustling around here, while at the same time more dead. For some reason, a lot of my friends are leaving early for Easter weekend and making themselves a long weekend, so only a couple of my friends are going to be on campus after today and I won't have many people to hang out with. Which is probably for the better, as I'm very busy. I've still got to finish an English essay for hopefully tomorrow, but before I worry about that I have computer science homework (which really should've stayed a hobby!) and a French assignment.

Which, by the way, sent me on a wild goose chase for about 45 minutes last night because I thought one question was about a different poem than it was, because my professor's headers on his assignments kind of blend together. So what should've been a simple question I remember the answer too off the top of my head turned into a 45-minute expedition through the entire French and English Internets to figure out what "traditional/canonical form" "Au lecteur" by Baudelaire is. (Hint: none. "Correspondances", on the other hand, is a sonnet.)

Hence why I say "agh!". Well, I have an hour before French class, so I should at least try and get something done this morning, I reckon.

Published on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at 9:29 AM.

Song of the day: f(x) - All Mine

I went home this past weekend for tax reasons, and was able to get back into my family's Netflix account (apparently, if you don't log into it at home every month or so you can't use it when away from home) and so today I sat down and watched some Gilmore Girls with my lunch! And it struck me that I feel very Rory Gilmore-esque today. This whole week, even, I feel like I will be very Rory-esque. (Except the fact that I'm writing this in my statistics class right now instead of paying attention... but I'm too busy for that today, in my defense!)

Well, to start, tonight I have to lead a club meeting, as well as an executive board meeting beforehand, so I had to write up an agenda and send out an e-mail, and this, that and the other. And for some reason, after having a very lovely and unstressful week last week, everything seems to have cooperated to make this week busy. I have a big essay due later on in the week that I was too exhausted (something to do with my allergies/allergy meds, I think?) to work on much over the weekend, like I had planned to do. And I have to do exec stuff for one club, and planning, and sign up to run for exec for another next semester. And I have some statistics assignments to do, and a French take-home quiz to do (which was also supposed to be done over the weekend, but my professor didn't send it until almost midnight on Saturday night), and a movie to watch for linguistics, and AGH!

I really don't know how Rory Gilmore was doing this busy extracurricular and studying-all-the-time stuff all throughout high school--I'm in college and it's still such a juggling act. I mean, I literally was juggling just before this class what could I do in class (anything on my computer, because I have the plausible deniability that I was "looking at slides" or something) and what would be gauche (breaking out a book and reading Frankenstein or finding citations for my Jane Eyre essay). I mean, one of the most engaged students in the class (always asking the teacher questions and such) is sitting on his phone right now and has been all class. But still, I do feel bad for not paying closer attention in class--perhaps what's keeping me from being like Rory Gilmore. Although even she had her terrible unacademic, crash-out-y moments during college (I don't want to spoil, but if you know you know!). So perhaps I'm not so unlike her after all, although she isn't a perfect aspirational figure anyway.

Published on Monday, April 14, 2025, at 3:11 PM.

Song of the day: Girls' Generation - Into The New World

Well, I just watched Julie and Julia last night with some friends (a brilliant movie, in case you didn't know), and I remembered how much I love blogging. I mean, I don't really know if anyone even reads this blog, and I'm not sure why I love blogging, but something about it is just therapeutic. I mean, I also keep a diary, but I think maybe it's something about putting it on-line, where other people can (at least in theory) see it, and comment, and relate, and everything. Speaking of, I'm wondering how many people read this blog? Hmm... I digress. That actually inspired me to work some more on the blog in another sense as well---finding new software! Managing the tags in the archive is cumbersome here in plain HTML---so I don't do it, LOL! Let's see what I find!

I actually had a pretty good day today---continuing with my good week! Although I slept poorly last night, I wasn't too busy and my classes all went well, and whatnot. And apparently I'm a candidate (if I will accept it, which I will) for the exec board for my English teaching club next semester! And that's about it for today. I think I might be forgetting something but I'm not sure. Oh well! Toodles! :)

Published on Thursday, April 10, 2025, at 10:09 PM.

Song of the day: Voisper - Keep Going

I don't know what the heck it was, but something was in the water last week, because it sucked. Monday started off "strong"---I had this weird stomachache all freaking day, and I went to a club meeting in the evening where we were making bracelets. I was trying to put Verivery's name on the bracelet, since I saw posts on-line of people making k-pop group friendship bracelets and it looked super cute, but I kept scrounging through the beads and finding all the letters (not an easy feat) only to realize that the string we got (which was the thick glittery plastic kind) was too big to fit them!

Repeat this twice, and two hours later, and I finally find the right size beads with all the right letters. I make a really cute bracelet, but I didn't have that much string left to tie it off, so I had to do it as much as I could. But I was so proud of that bracelet! And so when I went to take it off when I got back to my room, and I couldn't find it on my arm, in my pocket, anywhere... well, that on top of my stomachache (which made me have to skip my afternoon classes and catch up the next day) made me crash out. I went back to the classroom where we had had our meeting, and the bracelet wasn't there, or even with the trash (Yep, I dug through trash, which accelerated my crashout), and wasn't there either when I scoured the path back to my room, so I was done. And then a miracle happened.

The next day, I was coming back to my room after lunch, when in one of the hallway windowsills in my dorm building, I found... guess what? THE FREAKING BRACELET. And I thought that I had lost it before I had gotten to my building, so I don't know how that happened. Well, that about made my day, and so the next day, when it went with my (bomb-dot-com, by the way) outfit, I decided to wear it. And then I was on my way to my second class of the day, having already been all over campus, when I realized that I had lost it. Again. Or more accurately, since the thing seems to have a mind of its own, it had lost itself. AGH!!!!! When I go home in a weekend or two, I'm commandeering my mum's bracelet-making supplies to make myself a makeup bracelet.

And that was a foreboding of the week that was to come. I was stressed, my mental health wasn't the best for some reason, and nothing was really going my way. But today has been better! I'm still tired, but I got to meet up with some friends for lunch, and so on, and I'm having a better day. And when I woke up this morning I had some energy---I was happy to start my day! Barely any time to wake up in bed, no dragging my feet---I was dancing around the bathroom to my iPod getting ready. I can only hope and pray that A) that's a foreboding of a better week to come and B) that I've not just jinxed it. But that's all for now---my next class is starting in a few. Toodles! :D

Published on Monday, April 7, 2025, at 2:16 PM.