March 2, 2007

Music: various from a mix CD from one of my friends
Reading: stuff to workshop for creative writing class
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 8

Good things that happened today:
1. X-Files.
2. Mommy is here!
3. We went for ice cream with Mom.
4. Work went well.
5. Alliteration! I feel smart. ;)

March 1, 2007

Music: Papa Doo Run Run The California Project
Reading: stuff for workshopping on Monday
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 8

Good things that happened today:
1. Chorus!
2. Honeybush tea at lunch.
3. Had a badly needed cry, and I think got out a lot of things that I'd been repressing that had been bugging me.
4. Got enough sleep last night!
5. Worked on my creative writing portfolio.

February 28, 2007

Music: Papa Doo Run Run The California Project
Reading: newspapers, stuff to workshop on Monday
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 6

Good things that happened today:
1. Lunch with Jason.
2. Got most of my paper proposal done (should've done it all... but hell, I'll stop procrastinating when I'm really stressed. Maybe.).
3. Fencing started out badly, but I turned it around and did okay toward the end.
4. Went to an INCREDIBLE poetry reading (Robert Pinsky -- if you can see him read, DO IT).

February 27, 2007

Music: Papa Doo Run Run The California Project
Reading: Eagleton Literary Theory, the newspaper (!)
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 6.5

Good things that happened today:
1. I got accepted to CGU!
2. Lunch with Jason.
3. Again, didn't get through enough material in class today, so again, I am abruptly done with this week's reading as of Tuesday.
4. Fencing practice went okay... I was tired, so my body wasn't cooperating fully, but it wasn't as bad as it's been.
5. Got to take a nap!
6. Understood Derrida (and had what I didn't understand mostly explained to me)!
7. Wore my pretty dangly rainbow-y earrings from Mom and Dad.

February 26, 2007

Music: none
Reading: various for Creative Writing, Coleridge various, Dickens Our Mutual Friend
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 7

Good things that happened today:
1. UC-Boulder called. And offered me a highly competitive two-year fellowship. The lady almost literally said, "If there's anything I can do to get you to come, let me know." *dances*
2. Lunch and cuddles with Jason!
3. Woke up next to Jason.
4. Got all of my work done for today (as well as some that I needed to catch up on from yesterday), so I had time to go to...
5. Dickens reading group! Yay for toast and tea and Dickens and AMINALS!
6. Chocolate chip pancakes at breakfast.

February 25, 2007

Music: Jason's, Papa Doo Run Run The California Project
Reading: Coleridge various
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 8.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Spent a bunch of the day with Jason.
2. Am staying over at Jason's tonight!
3. Chocolate ice cream with whipped cream at dinner!
4. Sort of have a vague and very high-level outline for my final paper.
5. Got my membership packet for my lifetime membership in the alumni association (thank you mommy and daddy!).

Other things to be happy about:
1. Puppies!

February 24, 2007

Music: Jason's
Reading: Plotinus "On the Intellectual Beauty," Derrida "Structure, Sign, and Play [...?]," Coleridge various
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 6.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Cuddles!
2. I think I might actually have mostly potentially understood Derrida. Maybe. Perhaps. Almost.
3. Ice cream with fresh waffle at breakfast. Yummy.