Agh!

Apr. 16th, 2025 09:29 am
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Things are busy and bustling around here, while at the same time more dead. For some reason, a lot of my friends are leaving early for Easter weekend and making themselves a long weekend, so only a couple of my friends are going to be on campus after today and I won't have many people to hang out with. Which is probably for the better, as I'm very busy. I've still got to finish an English essay for hopefully tomorrow, but before I worry about that I have computer science homework (which really should've stayed a hobby!) and a French assignment.

Which, by the way, sent me on a wild goose chase for about 45 minutes last night because I thought one question was about a different poem than it was, because my professor's headers on his assignments kind of blend together. So what should've been a simple question I remember the answer too off the top of my head turned into a 45-minute expedition through the entire French and English Internets to figure out what "traditional/canonical form" "Au lecteur" by Baudelaire is. (Hint: none. "Correspondances", on the other hand, is a sonnet.)

Hence why I say "agh!". Well, I have an hour before French class, so I should at least try and get something done this morning, I reckon.
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I went home this past weekend for tax reasons, and was able to get back into my family's Netflix account (apparently, if you don't log into it at home every month or so you can't use it when away from home) and so today I sat down and watched some Gilmore Girls with my lunch! And it struck me that I feel very Rory Gilmore-esque today. This whole week, even, I feel like I will be very Rory-esque. (Except the fact that I'm writing this in my statistics class right now instead of paying attention... but I'm too busy for that today, in my defense!)

Well, to start, tonight I have to lead a club meeting, as well as an executive board meeting beforehand, so I had to write up an agenda and send out an e-mail, and this, that and the other. And for some reason, after having a very lovely and unstressful week last week, everything seems to have cooperated to make this week busy. I have a big essay due later on in the week that I was too exhausted (something to do with my allergies/allergy meds, I think?) to work on much over the weekend, like I had planned to do. And I have to do exec stuff for one club, and planning, and sign up to run for exec for another next semester. And I have some statistics assignments to do, and a French take-home quiz to do (which was also supposed to be done over the weekend, but my professor didn't send it until almost midnight on Saturday night), and a movie to watch for linguistics, and AGH!

I really don't know how Rory Gilmore was doing this busy extracurricular and studying-all-the-time stuff all throughout high school--I'm in college and it's still such a juggling act. I mean, I literally was juggling just before this class what could I do in class (anything on my computer, because I have the plausible deniability that I was "looking at slides" or something) and what would be gauche (breaking out a book and reading Frankenstein or finding citations for my Jane Eyre essay). I mean, one of the most engaged students in the class (always asking the teacher questions and such) is sitting on his phone right now and has been all class. But still, I do feel bad for not paying closer attention in class--perhaps what's keeping me from being like Rory Gilmore. Although even she had her terrible unacademic, crash-out-y moments during college (I don't want to spoil, but if you know you know!). So perhaps I'm not so unlike her after all, although she isn't a perfect aspirational figure anyway.

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This is super random but I just remembered an episode of Dog With A Blog where the family had an entire conversation about the difference between jelly, jam and preserves. Anyways, that's not really the point of this post. So the past day or two, I've been reading Pride and Prejudice, and honestly, Jane Austen should've written comedy. Like seriously, listen to this:

"I do not cough for my own amusement," replied Kitty fretfully. ... "Now, Kitty, you may cough as you choose."

I don't know why, but that's just so funny to me? Anyways, I'm having cheese tortellini with pesto sauce for dinner, so I'm super excited!
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So today at school, I got my copy of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, which I'm going to read for my philosophy class! I'm honestly kind of excited, because I've heard that it's quite a good book. Also, I've been doing some more writing today, as always, and I think that I'm going pretty well so far! Also, I miss late 90s/early 2000s fashion. Like frosted lip gloss looks super cute!
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Today's my last day off school :(

Also, for some reason I woke up at 6:30 AM and remembered that I forgot to cite my sources on my essay. Shite. But at this point, there's not really anything that I can do about that until I do my final draft. (Actually, never mind -- I snuck it in and I don't think that my teacher reviewed it yet.)

In other news, I want to read the Divine Comedy by Dante, but the only translation I found that I can download for free is utterly confusing and hard to read. I also read Plato's Republic recently for school, and that also suffered from the same issue. It's translated into modern English, yet somehow (my bet is the tone that it's written in), it's just hard to read and grasp like I would read and grasp a normal novel. Maybe the poetic nature also has something to do with it as both were written in stanzas and rhymes? I think that may be the problem with Dante but Plato definitely needed a tone adjustment as well.

Anyway, for understanding a lot of classic (and modern classic) novels, I discovered a cool YouTube channel a while ago called Overly Sarcastic Productions. It's run by these two people, and one covers a lot of novels and literary tropes, and the other talks about history! They're super helpful and super cool!

Anyways, I think that's enough rambling for now, so I'll talk to you later!

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