Entries in the Category "ma exam"
Received in the mail today...
- From Netflix: Scarface, the Shame of the Nation (1932)
- An ad for a local Jewish community center gym.
- Two coupons for Bed Bath and Beyond to throw on my preexisting pile of Bed Bath and Beyond coupons.
- Two boxes from Amazon! My "I passed my MA exam" celebration care package which I ordered for myself!
- One book of short stories
- Kill Bill vols. 1 and 2 on DVD (because, though I prefer vol. 2, to have only vol. 2 on DVD seemed incomplete)
- the third season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
I am really trying not to indulge in any of these care package entertainments right now. I should be working! Instead I am...wasting half the morning figuring out what code to use to nest a list inside a list. (Neat, hey?)
Exam Time is Over
I handed in two essays at 11:53 this morning. They are not the best essays ever written, but they both reached the minimum length and one of them even had time to get proof-read. If they are passable, I will have completed the longest Master's degree in the history of the universe.
For now, for a few hours at least, the "Currently reading / writing about" sidebar is empty, and I am going to bed! See you real soon, world.
(And see ya in hell, Faerie Queene!)
MA exam starts tomorrow
Preparations taken for the MA exam tomorrow:
- 2 weeks' worth of laundry done
- kitchen clean (dishwasher currently running)
- ample leftovers in fridge (chicken casserole from last night; lasagna from tonight) (also cookies)
- stocked up on groceries / necessities
- all bills paid through end of month
- DVR cleared of movies (for once!) and favorite shows set to record (also: TV remotes hidden to discourage unnecessary viewing)
- backup blog entries pre-written and ready to post sometime through the week, so that you don't all think I've died
Basically, I have attempted to pre-arrange anything and everything that is not my academic work and which could possibly take time away from me over the next week. We will see how this works.
Within the next eight days, this nightmare era of The Faerie Queene will be over. I first started working on this reading list in May 2009, people. (Pssst: and it never did get done.) I really can't say how much of a weight off me it will be when it's done.
But first: the eight days.
Such is the nature of wikis
This entire story is a testament to both my undiagnosed ADD and how easily amused I am, but here it goes:
I was reading from Leaves of Grass for the Master's exam and came across "Thought" (one of maybe five to ten poems Whitman entitled "Thought") in which he mentions the President, which footnotes in the text told me was a transatlantic steamship that disappeared somewhere between New York and Liverpool in 1841. I love those types of mysteries and looked it up on Wikipedia. From there I jumped to reading about the Lost Colony of Roanoke and then looking at History's Mysteries, a show I know used to air on one of those nerd channels--History or Discovery or something. I was checking to see if it was on DVD, because if so I'd like to hunt up some of those episodes (Roanoke! the Bermuda Triangle!).
So I hit the History's Mysteries page and found that it has been wikibombed. At least, I think it's been wikibombed.
Either that, or I'm totally misremembering that show.
By the way, my apologies that this kind of thing is what passes for a hilarious anecdote these days... I've been reading SO MUCH. Happy weekend, everybody!
Long Did She Live... The Faerie Queene
Though seemed it never would transpire
Thought I 'fore I reached the end would I be dead.
Yet tonight did I finish what need be read*
Upon this moment could I ne'er be higher!
Blissful my rewards shall be
Red wine, cheese and macaroni.
*That's Books 1 and 2, incidentally. It took me two months to read one sixth of this work! I did more than half of it this week, however. That's the power of resolution after procrastination.
30 Before 30 (Six Month Progress Update), Part 2
Yesterday's entry was about achievement and progress and today's entry is about goals which may or may not be attainable, but which, in my naivete, I set for myself last May.
Here are the list items that I am scared to do or confused about how to do (as well as some which, through no fault of my own, have been modified) which, as yet, I still fantasize that I someday check off on "30 Before 30."
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