Thud: Above, Good Day

[leahbobet]

April 9, 2008 Progress Notes:

Above

Words today: 1000.
Words total: 29,000 MS Word.
Reason for stopping: I am getting sleeeepy. Dinner might help with this.
Liquid Refreshment: Water.
Munchies: Dried mango, two apples.

Darling du Jour: And that was the problem in the end, Corner and Atticus, bloodtouch hands and crab-claw arms and awkward, desperate loving. Not Corner nor Atticus was a soft-heart, rose-loving Beauty.
They were both claws and temper. They were both Beasts.

Words Matthew Won't Admit to Knowing: catatonic. Although he's okay with conciliator. Boy reads the wrong books.
Mean Things: Getting pitied. Shame in front of grownups. And in the write-forward, a very mundane kind of tragedy, more tragic for its mundanity.
Research Roundup: N/A.
Books in progress: Jim Munroe and Salgood Sam, Therefore, Repent!.
The glamour: Workshop work, library-fine paying, kitchen tidying, OWW crits. Today is actually ripe with glamour, but the good kind.

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Today brought me one exam I did better on than I may have had any right to, one massage which fixed my left shoulder (which had seized up), two nice cheeses for breakfasts this week, a package of quail which is now marinating for my dinner, dried mango slices (at this point they too should get their own tag), some truly excellent news for/from a friend, words, and tee-shirt weather. I am sleepy and pleasantly content.

Today was also my last day of full-time classes. Ever.

Yeah, there's an essay to write (for Tuesday), a take-home exam (for the 21st), and then two more exams to write. But by and large? I survived the Death Semester, and looking over some of the stuff I got back this week, with some pretty damn good grades.

One credit to go to finish out this degree.

Leisurely 11am breakfasts commence tomorrow. :)

Comments

[hysteriachan.livejournal.com]

Today was also my last day of full-time classes. Ever.

That's got to feel good, even though it sounds like your schedule will still be pretty packed.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Oh man, it does.

The absence of stress is sort of like the absence of nagging pain. It's euphoric.

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

Congrats on finishing off the last full day!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[theengineer.livejournal.com]

Today was also my last day of full-time classes. Ever.


Man, I don't miss classes and exams so much. Good for you!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Hee. I will not miss them.

Thanks!

[seabream.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the various good things above. Perhaps because I'm more distant from some of the other stuff in my life, the one that makes me go _ooh_ is the massage. I can't remember whether or not you're left handed, and I guess it matters less since you don't have more classes to take notes in, but yay for physical functionality.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Nope, righty, but I think it was hunching over those little desk-things attached to the chairs for five hours in the past 48 that busted my shoulder.

Right now it is crazy sore. Note to self: do not play the hero when the massage dude says: "if I do this deep, it will hurt". :p

[monkeyman.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed Therefore, Repent -- in a lot of ways, I liked the tone of it better than An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I liked it, but when I realized it was the same people as Opening Act a lot of things made more sense. For one thing, both share a kind of...looseness of structure. The nothing-really-happens plot, except in Repent things do happen, it just doesn't feel enough like they happen.

If that makes sense.

[cszego.livejournal.com]

You survived the Death Semester! Classes are done!


I see a large sticky Girlie Drink in your future.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Indeed! The Federation is entirely in arrears re: its battle against the proliferation of armed and dangerous girly drinks.

We must all set a time.

[ksumnersmith.livejournal.com]

We must indeed!

[sora-blue.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the world of leisurely 11 am breakfasts. It is a mighty fine day. :)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

It is!

(11am breakfast tomorrow, apparently. I, um, slept in and skipped breakfast.)

[clarentine]

::confettis::

Huzzah for your nearly-graduated self! Classes can be fun, but there's life to be lived!

[ksumnersmith.livejournal.com]

Woo!! You survived!! And there was much rejoicing.

[ex-fandrogy.livejournal.com]

Yay on all fronts! And thanks for friending.

..The more I look at the "metrics" format, the more I want to create something similar. Hmm.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sorry -- it sometimes takes me a while to put real name to face to LJ name and then I go "oh! yes I know that person!" :p

The metrics...they're kind of around? A looot of people do them. So steal, pillage, etc. away. *g*