Kaesa Aurelia ([info]kaesa) wrote,
@ 2009-04-28 16:34:00
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Current mood: ravenous!

I apologize for the total lack of music posts and pretty much anything else lately; I have been consumed with finals. BUT I just got out of my last final exam and now all that stands between me and graduating with a BA in Environmental Studies is a week-sized clump of timey-wimey ...stuff.

I mean, I have other shit to do -- pack, clean room, deal with kvetching parents who want to get the fuck out whining about how Bloomington-Normal has no good restaurants (adults, so spoiled!), convince kvetching parents that I should be allowed to stay for a few minutes longer to say goodbye to all the Environmental Studies people, and figure out how on earth I'm going to be able to serve hot tea and sandwiches to my friends during our hike at Starved Rock. That last one is really the only problem I'm looking forward to solving because if I can do that it will be the epitome of needless luxury that I can actually appreciate.

(Anyway, I think I offended Professor Jahiel by warning her that I might not stay very long after graduation, because of the whole whiny parents deal, but I actually would like to stay. I am being honest here, literally ALL THEY WILL TALK ABOUT at this point is how much they want to get out of Bloomington-Normal quickly. They won't even discuss, like, the dogs. They will always discuss the dogs.)

Also, I got my May Term journal assignments back, which is awesome because I forgot a lot of what I wrote about (a lot of it I now take for granted, actually) and rereading it is awesome, because I completely failed to keep the non-academic journal up. (I think I got halfway through the month. Yup! Detailed entries including drawings of plants up to May 14th, when I realized exhaustion was something to be avoided.)

Anyway, technically I have karate practice mentally scheduled for Two Hours Hence, but Awkward Physics Blue Belt Guy stood me up last time, so I think I'm going to do that tomorrow and today I'll listen to music and write. Or maybe draw. Or both! My Lovecraftian romantic comedy is from three points of view, with text and pictures (See? It's totally Lovecraftian, y'all know my drawing is terrible.), and I need to research postwar fashion and work on my character designs.

...oh yeah, and I didn't eat lunch. Guess I should do that before my stomach rises up and eats me.

...Cassie, I will respond to your email eventually. Sorry. Lunch comes second, triumphant LJ post comes first, sleep or at least brain rest comes third. Haven't read the book, though, alas.

And yes, I will try to make up for the Lost Music Posts. But I'd love it if you suggested themes. And I'd love it if they were easy for me to do. (Not steampunk. I suspect there will be a steampunk music post soonish but I would rather save it for when I'm at my best, and that is not now.)


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[info]dramaturgy
2009-04-29 03:40 am UTC (link)
Winner = you!

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[info]kaesa
2009-04-29 03:50 am UTC (link)
I am. Although I've just realized I forgot to cite a very common statistical practice in my final Anthro paper, because I couldn't figure out how to cite notes I took from an unrelated-to-Anthro class, and I think I just was all "I'll come back to it later," but I definitely didn't. So the little worrying part of my brain that thinks about the worst case scenario keeps shouting "you're going to be Expelled For Plagiarism!" I really don't want to be That Girl. D:

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[info]diatryma
2009-04-30 04:19 am UTC (link)
The post-graduation Thing was sort of exhausting, not least because everyone had to freaking MOVE OUT right then. I am glad that my family loaded everything *before* the festivities. It gave us more time to stalk professors, even if Dr Balser wasn't there (sad, since I had my Realms to give her).

Do not feel bad about the email. At this point, responding to an email within the same week counts as good for me.

Music: pick a story and the songs that go along with it. Maybe not a full-blown novel soundtrack, but still.

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[info]kaesa
2009-05-04 08:05 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, my friends wanted to take pictures, but my mother was throwing a tantrum about the lack of fruit juice at the reception, and how we had to leave ASAP, so I didn't end up seeing any of them. Then, when I was checking out, she called me and the RA over specifically to yell at us for taking too long, while we were on the verge of finding the person I had to give my break key to so that I could finally leave. She still doesn't seem to realize how counterproductive and aggravating that doing that kind of thing is. For my next Big Life-Changing Positive Event I think I had better just not tell her about it or invite her, because whether she means to or not, she invariably makes it all about her and getting it over with so she can go home. I owe her everything, but I also think I deserve better than that.

re: music -- I can do that easily since I basically have that in long form already, but uh, fair warning, the stories I have in my head right now are mostly fanfic, so the blather probably won't make sense to you. :\

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[info]diatryma
2009-05-04 08:14 pm UTC (link)
I was thinking a published story by someone else, but it still works.

Ick on the mom. Why so much going home? I can understand wanting to be Done-- I changed into sweatshirt and jeans, fit myself into the big van, and crashed for the drive-- but there's a certain amount of things having to happen. And people! You do deserve better.

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[info]kaesa
2009-05-04 10:31 pm UTC (link)
...That might be better, if I could find something that I had music for.

Well, part of it was that we had a train to catch, since there wasn't enough room in the van for all my stuff AND two people in the back seat. And part of it is that she's diabetic and has certain food requirements, but they apparently kept changing over the course of the argument, because fruit punch was not good enough, but two minutes later it was okay. And part of it is that I think she thought the RA would come and do my room early if I was ready, even though I kept telling her it didn't work like that.

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