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kiralamouse...and not just because it's Christmas.
This time last year, I was celebrating a strange, uncomfortable Thanksgiving in a foreign land, preparing to go visit relatives and family friends whom I had never met and some of whom didn't speak English, and frantically trying to write papers and cram in the last of my London experience. I was tired, depressed, stressed out to the extreme... (amazing how many happy memories I have of England, despite how homesick and lonely I was for much of it).
For the past month, I've been stressed out working and going home every other weekend for something or other.
Now... well, I have two papers to write by next Monday. I have a bunch of Chaucer and Malory to catch up on, which will be not too terribly painful. Some anthropology studying by the exam next Thursday. Then a paper due the week after that. No classes after next Monday, no other reading, no research papers (yay!!), and best of all, two and a half weeks away from home.
It's weird to feel this way, but I've been home so much lately that it's a relief to be away, and especially after a stressful Thanksgiving. I had an awesome time with the family, but it's exhausting trying to make sure you visit everyone, are properly helpful, match your schedule to other people's... it's wonderful to have the prospect of time without serious obligations. How shall I spend this time? Procrastinating? (Hopefully not.) Perhaps reading Sense and Sensibility as lent by a friend, or Lord of the Rings. Probably seeing I, Robot and Pride and Prejudice. Nice, mindless activities, and relatively laid back, and... it's Christmas. :)
Honestly, I don't understand why exam time isn't more popular. It's always been a bit of a vacation to me, and I'll miss it after I graduate.
This time last year, I was celebrating a strange, uncomfortable Thanksgiving in a foreign land, preparing to go visit relatives and family friends whom I had never met and some of whom didn't speak English, and frantically trying to write papers and cram in the last of my London experience. I was tired, depressed, stressed out to the extreme... (amazing how many happy memories I have of England, despite how homesick and lonely I was for much of it).
For the past month, I've been stressed out working and going home every other weekend for something or other.
Now... well, I have two papers to write by next Monday. I have a bunch of Chaucer and Malory to catch up on, which will be not too terribly painful. Some anthropology studying by the exam next Thursday. Then a paper due the week after that. No classes after next Monday, no other reading, no research papers (yay!!), and best of all, two and a half weeks away from home.
It's weird to feel this way, but I've been home so much lately that it's a relief to be away, and especially after a stressful Thanksgiving. I had an awesome time with the family, but it's exhausting trying to make sure you visit everyone, are properly helpful, match your schedule to other people's... it's wonderful to have the prospect of time without serious obligations. How shall I spend this time? Procrastinating? (Hopefully not.) Perhaps reading Sense and Sensibility as lent by a friend, or Lord of the Rings. Probably seeing I, Robot and Pride and Prejudice. Nice, mindless activities, and relatively laid back, and... it's Christmas. :)
Honestly, I don't understand why exam time isn't more popular. It's always been a bit of a vacation to me, and I'll miss it after I graduate.
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Date: 2004-11-30 05:36 am (UTC)Attractive though it sounds right now...