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Posted Dec 5, 2002
just took my dj exam, doubtless i will pass it fairly handily.
and they had some nice, nice homemade chocolate chip cookies, burnt on the bottom! ahh.
i'd missed the moment in the preceding meeting where they said the test was actually going to take place directly after the meeting rather than at 8 but since it only took me 20 minutes it wasn't too much of a problem. i'm just glad someone was still there when i finally showed up..
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the horror.....the horror
Posted Dec 4, 2002
at this point, things are so hopeless i can almost justify this pause.
i am in such a panic i can't work, and i am aware of each minute i lose, and this causes me to become increasingly furious and incapacitated. my coping skills are entirely gone. all i know is there is no way i can finish this project for class tomorrow. my original prediction was correct. for awhile i had some bizarre confidence that if i just worked hard it could happen. but any chance i had to accomplish this was lost weeks ago before i had any idea where i was headed, for what disaster i was destined.
i have not had an actual meal for several days now. i have been living on pringles, ramen noodles, cereal, tea, miso soup, anything that happened to be in my room. i made the soup in an attempt to calm myself down somehow. obviously it hasn't worked.
translation, 411 word glossary and introduction by tomorrow at 10. the prolonged torture of the past 3 days is unlike anything i have ever known. most projects forced upon me only result in maybe one night of hell each... three days for my cantinflas paper which i handed in today, such as it was, and quite late as well... and now i am finally getting to this old english edition, and who knows how long it will go on. more importantly, who knows how many hours i will waste before i can achieve the zen state necessary to continue under these conditions.
this is extremely unpleasant.
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Latest reply: Dec 4, 2002
decepcionada, a new fragrance from...
Posted Dec 3, 2002
oh oh oh... sigh of woe and wear.
i spent about 3 days doing nothing, nothing, nothing but writing my paper. i've come to love mario moreno despite his strange comments on women's suffrage and now, having finished my paper a day late and a buck short i just feel like my time studying him has come to an abrupt and unfit end. it makes me sad to walk away with such bitter feelings of failure. the past 2 days have been excruciating and having finished i feel no relief, partly because i have yet to actually hand it in. and i also have to move onto the next late project, the next deferred deadline, which i will undoubtedly miss as well, necessitating another deadly showdown with an enraged Old English professor... my life is nothing if not hell today.
(decepcionada means disappointed. or disappointing. or something.)
(and hambre means hunger.)
(so now you know)
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Latest reply: Dec 3, 2002
cantinfleando
Posted Dec 2, 2002
yo tengo bocadillos, y pocas horas. y ya no hablo ingles
(i have snacks, and few hours. and i no longer speak english)
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Latest reply: Dec 2, 2002
...panickly?
Posted Nov 20, 2002
tonight alone i have done french, spanish, and old english homework. and a lot of panickly thinking in modern english too.
four languages in one head??? it's madness!!!
i do get enormous satisfaction out of the fact that i can now write bad spanish almost as easily as good english.
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Latest reply: Nov 20, 2002
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