and put me a peg leg on
Hooooboy. It’s a week. It’s midterm week for my chilluns. I feel like I’ve been doing nothing but work for this class in the last week (overlooking, of course, our oh-so-important data gathering fieldtrip Sunday I failed to write about). I spent all weekend grading papers and homeworks and writing the midterm for this Friday. Blurg. I got no reading done, and have been generally lacking in sanity for a number of consecutive days.
I just need to focus on getting through tomorrow, and get through Thursday. I have some freedom thereafter. No sessions on Friday, one class canceled on Thursday.. if only I didn’t have to present a few papers that morning anyway. Sigh. But it’ll be alright.
I guess I was just hoping that I’d feel footloose and fancy free after the scariest part of my quarter, collecting data, was over. But instead it felt like the last milestone before the marathon. I didn’t know I could “buckle down” any more than I have been, but there you go. A few nights worth of being up at 8 am and working till midnight is starting to wear on me a bit. But I think I can hold out till Friday. Which is also Halloween. Maybe I’ll get a chance to carve my pumpkin that afternoon? Seems sad that it would happen after Halloween…
I did sign up for classes today, and pretty much get (finally) caught up on my work that’s been slippery-sloping (if you will) since last week. Pretty soon here I need to pick my paper topic for my theory class and get moving on my research. Classes for next term are looking really neat. I’m taking Advanced Semantics, the Philosophy of Language (why do I do this to myself?), and the introductory Functional Cognitive Imaging (where I get to learn to read fMRIs from a cognitive science standpoint) … It’s quite a load. Also, I’m the reader (as in, paper grader) for Intro Phonology, which ought to be righteous. I’m a bit nervous overall, but it should be good to sink my teeth into some serious theory and stretch my wings / broaden my horizons into the more concrete brain science business. I hope!
Alright, it’s midnight already and by my count I’ve finished everything on my to do list today and more. Quite a bit more. Go me. Go me, to bed.