I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

or close to it for thirteen days.

goodbye MA. hello sleep!

two days left...

down to the wire...please, oh, please, i hope this paper gets done today...

so the paper didn't get done today. i acutally had major issues with the comparison part. so i decided to stop. i'll work on it tomorrow. hopefully.

i want to go home. it's nearly Christmas.

i posted pics of the dept holiday party on flickr. check it out.

fouc-me? no, fouc-ault!

okay, i'm at 14 pages and i need at least 6 more to fulfill my required page length, but i'm having difficulty writing about Use of Pleasure. and i still need to "make an argument" :-P. as if i cared. the paper's a mess. like, it will need at least a day of revisions and careful thought. stupid theory. if this class was supposed to help me like theory, it failed miserably.


wish me luck - i'm hoping to wrap this sucker up so i can go home on wednesday rather than thursday or friday. [crosses fingers]

sad sign of the times

guess i can't move back now... and delaware isn't even all that great.

it might be true this year:


http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=799

this weekend.

so there is less than two weeks left in the semester. hooray! i meet with members of my committee this week about my paper. i have MY LAST THEORY CLASS on tuesday. the holiday party is on wednesday.

my theory paper is coming along. i need to finish the section on "use of pleasure" (it's foucault and not some sex advice book...) and then do some serious revision on the whole paper (i.e. basically rewrite it). that'll be pleasant. i have until the 20th. THANK GOODNESS.

i went Christmas shopping on friday with the most awesome roommate ever. i got my running shoes (see flickr - thanks mom and dad) and evan's Christmas presents, oh and gift wrap AND some other things i'd run out of. saturday was the usual game night. i ended up kicking ass in scattergories, although not for a lack of trying on the others' part.

so, that's my boring life...

HOPE

from Wikipedia
Hope is an emotional belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances within one's personal life. Hope implies a certain amount of perseverance — ie. believing that a positive outcome is possible even when there is some evidence to the contrary. Beyond the basic definition, usage of the term hope follows some basic patterns which distinguish its usage from related terms:

[*] Hopefulness is somewhat different than optimism, in that hope is an emotional state, where optimism is a conclusion reached through a deliberate thought pattern which leads to a positive attitude. But hope and optimism both can be based in unrealistic belief, or fantasy.

[*] Hope is often the result of faith, in that while hope is an emotion, faith carries a divinely-inspired and informed form of positive belief. Hope is typically contrasted with despair, but despair may also refer to a crisis of faith, or otherwise an ignorance thereof. Hence, when used in religious context, hope carries a connotation being aware of spiritual truth. (In some religions, despair itself is considered to be a sin; see Hope (virtue)).

[*] Hope is distinct from positive thinking, which refers to a therapeutic or systematic process used in psychology for reversing pessimism.

[*] The term false hope refers to a hope based entirely around a fantasy or an extremely unlikely outcome.
Examples of hopes include hoping to get rich, hoping for someone to be cured of a disease, hoping to be done with a term paper, or hoping that a person has reciprocal feelings of love. An example of false hope would be hoping for the ability to fly.


Hope was personified in Greek mythology as Elpis. When Pandora opened Pandora's Box, she let out all the evils except one: Hope. Apparently the Greeks considered Hope to be as dangerous as all the world's evils. But without hope to accompany all their troubles, humanity was filled with despair. It was a great relief when Pandora revisited her box and let out hope as well. It may be worthy to note that in the story, Hope is represented as weakly leaving the box but is in effect far more potent than any of the major evils.

Hope is passive in the sense of a wish or a prayer - or active as a plan or idea, often against popular belief, with persistent, personal action to execute the plan or prove the idea. Consider a prisoner of war who never gives up hope for escape and, against the odds, plans and accomplishes this. By contrast another who simply wishes or prays for freedom, or another who give up all hope of freedom.


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hmm, interesting.

snow!

12/5 the first snowfall of the year: it snowed a little yesterday (december 5th - it almost always snows on december 5th for me...). nothing much, just a dusting of powder snow, but it was nice to see. it's been so cold the last few days. i'm not complaining, mind you. but i need to find better gloves.

oh, and with the freezing temperatures has come a wonderful car experience. during my trip home, the windshield of my car started to get condensation on it. not on the outside - that's too easy - on the inside. ev bought me some shammies to help clean it off so i don't have to wait for that. wonderful. but now it's freezing out. water + temperatures <32 degrees = FROST ON THE INSIDE OF MY WINDSHIELD, which == FANTASTIC. i don't have to scrape the OUTSIDE of the window, mostly just the INSIDE. yeah, pretty much.

i can't wait for february, when i plan to get my new car. yay new car!!!

i looked online for jobs in delaware last night. i think i'm overqualified for many jobs with my useless soon-to-be sociology MA. what the hell was i thinking??? if you hear of something that might work for me, please let me know...

it is very windy today. and cold.

big thanks to mr. winter for showing up, late, without much warning, and on a day after 63 degree weather. much appreciated.

twenty days left...

there are twenty days left in the semester. i've almost finished my fourth draft of my comps paper. oh yes, fourth draft. the first two really weren't that good, so i shoudl say it's the second real draft, but whatever. i've started my theory paper. i have a (crappy) introduction and the first sentence of the first section. that's two hole pages! just 18 more to go. i talked to the prof about how strict the page length is, she said, not really strict, but she didn't mean it. she went on to say that i really need to try and stretch myself.

in other news, i thought zoe had a cat cold. apparently not. i took her to the vet. $42 later, she doesn't sneeze or cough. she just scowls at dr. ricksger and her assistant. oh well. at least she's not sick.