The movements were beautiful all in your ovaries.
Two weekends ago was Fall Break for Vanderbilt. I went home and ended up doing pretty much nothing, which was a great break for me. I saw The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D with my sister an mom. It was really cool, and put me in the Halloween mood. I stopped by school, and sat in on band rehearsal. They were playing pieces I remembered from my sophomore year, so it was sort of nostalgic for me. I also visited the lady at the costume shop and showed her the Tsukasa outfit I made for ACen last year. I also said hi to Mr. Bleck; it was good to see him again.
Kevin, Alexa, Sarah, Jessica, and I went to The Rocky Horror Picture Show Saturday at midnight. Sarah and Jessica were RHPC virgins, so that was fun. When we got there, the show was sold out, even though we were there an hour early. I ended up walking up and down the line to get in that had formed outside asking if people wanted to sell their tickets. Most people ignored me, and I got cat calls from others. Somehow we were able to piece together five tickets at a reasonable price. We had a great time, though my feet hurt horribly by the end of the night.
This week has been/is crazy for me. I had a philosophy paper due on Monday. I also had a theater test on Monday which I had 5 hours of sleep for, due to the philosophy paper. I had a villanelle due this morning. I have a Faulkner paper due Thursday. This week sort of sucks for me.
On a positive note, however, the band is going with the football team to Florida for the game this weekend. We leave Thursday night and will get in early Friday. Since the game isn’t until Saturday, we have all of Friday free. This means Disney World, the happiest place on Earth. Honestly, that’s what’s getting me through this week. I’m so excited.
The fish, cut into jagged pieces, bleeds quietly in the pan.
Life at Vanderbilt has been hectic. Last weekend was homecoming for us. Kristy came down to visit Thursday through Sunday. It had a great time (and I think she did too). She ended up helping build the band’s float for the parade for most of Friday while I was in classes and rehearsal. Saturday was filled with band for me. My call time for the parade was 11:30, and homecoming-related band activities ended at 9:30. I was exhausted by the end of the day.
My homework has suddenly gotten crazy. I have a theater paper due tomorrow which I haven’t started. I’m not too worried, though; it’s short and should be relatively easy. I have a Jewish Studies paper due next Wednesday (right after our Fall break). For my JS paper I had to fill out three worksheets correctly, read the American Sociology Association’s guidelines for the ethical treatment of subjects, sign something that says I read and understand the ASA guidelines, and then interview two Jews. After I complete all of this I can finally start my 7 page paper comparing the two individuals’ constructions of their Jewish identity. I have a meeting at 9:15 tomorrow morning (aka way too early) with the professor to discuss my paper proposal. Also due next Wednesday is an 8 page paper in my Gender & Sexuality class discussing contemporary constructs of the “male” and “masculine” as inspired by Simone de Beauvoir’s quotation “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.” The week after that I have due an 8 page paper discussion the positioning of Darl as an omniscient super-narrator in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.
As last weekend drew to a close, I realized that there was no way I was going to be able to complete all of these assignments on time and retain my sanity. As per usual, my procrastination and voracious appetite for wasting time got me into a tight spot. So yesterday I asked my JS professor for an extension on the paper. He said, “No. It was given well in advance.” I was sort of expecting this answer, but it made me feel like a jerk for asking for an extension. Because of his rejection, I then asked my G&S professor for an extension. She was more than willing, given my explanation (simplified and exaggerated for effect though it may have been), and now my paper is due a week from Monday, which takes considerable pressure off my shoulders.
I turned in a sestina for my poetry class on Tuesday. I had never written a sestina before, and I found that I really, really liked it (or at least liked it more than the other forms). I wrote my about fat, using the keywords “book, leaf, hate, becoming, food, and fat.” Some of the students snickered at the title “Sestina for Her Fat,” which is understandable, but entirely not what I had intended, as the poem is rather serious and actually kind of disgusting. I really hope that they like it. We don’t have class next week, which is a blessing and a curse. The poems due for the following week are villanelles. He said that we were given two weeks for the villanelle because it is the hardest form.
This coming weekend is Fall break, which I’m super excited about. I get to go home and hang out with my sister, mostly. I think I’ll also visit school and show Ms. Halajian the costume that I made for the convention last May and tell her how well I’m doing at the costume shop on campus. I’m planning to see Across the Universe this weekend with my whole family, and hopefully The Nightmare Before Christmas which is opening in 3D on Imax tomorrow. I’m pumped. The downside is that I will be working on my papers for most of the break, as teachers decided to have them due right afterwards. It’s really unfortunate that they all fall not only at the same time, but all right after my break (essentially negating the relaxing effects of the break).
Well, I really need to get back to work if I’m to get any sleep tonight. I leave for the airport at 5pm tomorrow. Everyone have a great break!
Here are some cats, because cats make just about anything better:
