Tomorrow . . .

my classes start. I am ready and not ready. Definitely not ready for more papers and presentations! Ah well. The professor for my Monday class sent us a list of 21 books to be 'conversant' on before class starts at the beginning of January. I haven't quite made it all the way through, but I came really close. I finished Forever... this morning. There is only one more that I haven't read before, but it's a long one, so I probably won't finish. From what I hear I've read more than at least some of the people in my class, which is something. My other class has gone kind of wonky . . . the person they got to teach the class is coming from New York, so instead of meeting on Tuesday afternoons for 3 hours, we'll be meeting a little later and for 4 hours and then 2 hours Wednesday mornings, but every other week. That will be interesting. She wanted us to read 6 books before class started, but somewhere the message was lost until Friday so now we're just supposed to bring them with us. I found four at libraries and I plan to check the bookstore for the other two. I am looking forward to seeing my classmates and finding out who will be in my classes.

We're still doing rounds of shots and steroids for Cinnamon, but I'm hoping things will improve . . . Oh, and I replaced my T pass. I still haven't found anything I like yet to keep it in though. Guess that's the scoop for now. Hope everyone is well!

Sad

Today I dropped my Teen Summer Read card holder . . . along with my monthly T pass . . . on a train . . . sadness . . . . .

Winter Break!

Woo! My first semester is over! I turned in my last paper at midnight last night. Fortunately, I didn't have to work today, so I could stay in bed all morning and read a novel. That was very happy. I bought The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen with my gift card (thank you again!) a while ago while buying Christmas presents and it has been patiently waiting for me to finish. Now I have to spend some time cleaning, since I've been ignoring everything and the place is a complete disaster. But that's what this afternoon is for! Music and cleaning. And then some movies. :) I come home Sunday night and I'll be home for a week. I'm definitely going to come by the library at least once. Too bad I come home late Sunday and you're closed Monday or I might stop by for some books. Hehe. My winter reading list is quite long! I'll never get through it all, but that's ok. Top of the list is Golden Compass. Oh yes, I also bought myself a paper Christmas tree, which I will set up as soon as I've cleaned a space for it. How could I resist a Christmas tree in-a-box?? With origami ornaments no less. Oh! And And And. I'm so excited I cannot say. I'm going to be my brother's witness in his wedding in April. That made my day Monday when I was writing papers, let me tell you. *sigh* :) Now I'm off to do something else. It's fun trying to do three things at once. :)

Finals

Final papers due one week from today. Will try to remember to give a real update after that. Hope everyone's having a nice holiday season so far!

December

The months are just flying by here. I am reading Octavian Nothing, which is good so far. Impressively long compared to our other class novels though. Go and Come Back is our other book this week, which looks good too. I'm not very interesting this morning. Three more classes this semester. Bunch of reading, three more papers varying in length from very short to reasonably long. Then Christmas! Magpie still hasn't gotten back to me about the week after Christmas, but I'm going to talk to my parents about flight plans tomorrow anyway. I can only wait so long to get tickets after all. If you're interested though, go here: http://community.livejournal.com/magpie_store/
to see some of the neat stuff they sell. It's really quite a range from the 'I could make that myself' to 'Someone made that by hand?!' Yup. Anyway, fun as this is, it isn't getting me into my productive day mode. Later!

Hi everyone

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! It was really nice to see some people while I was home, I'm sorry I missed everybody who wasn't working on Wednesday. And I still forgot to get my books from Janice, though I guess she wasn't there so we can pretend that's my excuse for forgetting about them again. I guess I'll just have to try again at Christmas time.

You know what I find annoying? When you e-mail someone and they don't answer what you asked about. I find that has happened several times lately. Answering some of the questions is good, but all would be better. Oh well. The end of the semester is coming. I feel the pressure. After Thursday will be better. (I have to present about what I'm writing my paper on, which means I really need to figure out exactly what my thesis actually is.) :( I have information, I just don't know if it's the right information or if I have enough (probably not) or what I'm going to do with said information. Well, back to trying to figure all that out.

Yay!

Denise! I miss you! I am going to try to come by the library next Wednesday, since you'll be closed Friday . . . I'm thinking around 4, but I'll update if anything changes. I can't wait to see everyone!

In other news, I have a job, though I probably won't really start until after Thanksgiving. I have had some training though. Yay retail. At least it's fun stuff! magpie-store.com Plus, my brother and his fiancée are friends with one of the owners (there are five of them). I think they know some of the others too. Oh! And last 'weekend' I went to a friend from college's wedding and that was super fun. I had never been to a Jewish wedding, it was very cool. And I got to see a bunch of people I hadn't seen in a long time and then hang out with my brother. Pearl River, American Museum of Natural History, Kinokuniya, Central Park, Nintendo tetris, and wandering around NYC (for the first time by myself) fun! Now I should probably do some homework, since I'm guessing I won't get a lot done while I'm home! Hope to see everyone Wednesday!