philloak

i have returned to the united states $3000 poorer not counting whatever loan debts i've incurred this semester and in mostly one piece albeit nigglingly delayed. taking a page from sun's book i am going to do a bullet point summary of the semester:

1. definately a lot more surprises that i expected or enjoyed in some cases.

2. the classes were disappointing but i...
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four days left. 70 quid to go around, but i don't want to spend it all as i need to subsidize my liver when i get home.

we had our art show yesteday. it was quite good for having been thrown together in a few hours and the food lcc provided was excellent (horray for mini-quiches, the penultimate exhibition munchy). i drank too much wine,...
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kiss kiss, kiss for the budgieman

partially thanks to the just-finished weekend and the fact that i had been awake for 24 hours once again i had a strange slip in time when i realized i had absolutely no idea what day it was, and barely a clue as to what time. this situation was rectified by a five-hour nap. i have but one final left, and the book, which still...
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as of today i have a week left here. yet the class-related ball-punching continues. thank you, padma, for a suspiciously easy yet maddeningly vague final exam. i would have been equally well served with a question like "write about anything at all, but if you write about the wrong thing i will fail you motherfucker" because that's essentially what we're getting. my overthinking mind has...
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so i'm back in the lab, again, with things to do. some of the last things that need to be done, and i'm not doing them. because i'm stupid like that. there's also things to be done not-lab related and i'm not doing those at the moment either, and they definately need to be done in the next twelve hours but they still seem vaguely...
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drama final: finished. not handed in yet, but jane and sun are going to ferry it over to pinchin's place for me. fun fact for the day? jane pinchin collects essays at 2, rather than four like every other colgate professor.

only one more essay question to go! with about two and a half hours left. i hope to hell there isn't too much revising to do on question one, which there shouldn't be.

i am definately not going to a movie again tonight, as i remembered i have to bang out my abstracts so it looks like i'll be doing this two days in a...
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it's been may 3 for three hours so i only feel like 34% of an asshole for posting again so quickly (not like anyone reads this thing anyways) but i'm out of stuff to distract myself with online and my paper is dragging itself along. i fear the wrath of pinner because though i thought i had a pretty good handle on what i was...
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so i'm sitting staring at one of the clone army of dell flatscreens that populates the lab at the fsu center on sunday evening (or maybe it was monday morning?) and i brilliantly think okay if i bang out the majority of this paper tonight i will reward myself by buying 10,000 days tomorrow first thing in the morning. what a great way to get...
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10,000 days gets released in the UK tomorrow. i'm not crazy about spending extra money for it (thankyouverymuch shitty exchange rate) but the tool fan/asshole in me wants to get it anyways just because. i love getting new releases by my favorite bands the day of, it's one of those little joys in life that my consumer whoredom provides me.

monica sent me a really long email and i loved it. and tim got his "neckface the ripper" postcard and loved that, too. i'm just a bundle of pleasantness today.

as if too much good stuff happening wasn't enough, there's a love music hate racism free concert in trafalgar square today and motherfucking belle and sebastian are playing. i want to go and i'm not...
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