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Sunday morning
Where have I been?
Well, there was a wonderfully touching and silly bridal shower thrown at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stealthmuffin's place last weekend. The memory-game was really nifty, and I've got the Oracle texts...at some point I'll post those, because there was some nice match-up between question and answer. Thank you all who came and made me feel so loved and special. Also, I now have soap that smells like a Dunkin' Donuts coffee with extra sugar. Mmmmmmmmm morning!
Weeknight events included character-generation withiresprite. I'm looking forward to some Spirit of the Century action as Kit Landis, star pitcher and undercover agent! We also had dinner with friends from the Div School, showed Veronica Mars to stealthmuffin, and watched the wonderfully cracktastic world of Utena.
Britten's War Requiem was Friday night. I need to hear this more; the Dies Irae alone was enough to leave me shaking, and the struggle in the Offertorium was heartbreaking.
And last nightesqgirl and osmos threw a MassEquality house party, which had good wine, great conversation, and reminded me again that I'm not nearly politically active enough.
I'm muddling my way through my papers, but I have the weird feeling that I'm simultaneously trying to accomplish too much and leaving vast amounts of work undone. That's on a meta-level, however; my assignments are pretty clearly being taken care of. It's more a feeling that There Are Things To Do With My Life that aren't getting done, not an awareness of chores unfinished or bills unpaid.
I have three papers and a take-home exam left. One is a short (5pages) exegesis of the refrain in Surah ar-Rahman. A draft is half-done. Another is a response to Jean Porter's work on Thomas Aquinas and contemporary natural law theory; I want to test her assumptions about exactly where tradition comes into play in this incarnation of natural law, and whether another tradition could be 'plugged in' without destabilizing the entire structure. Then there's one for my comparative religious ethics course; I'm struggling with how to articulate it. I want to work on irrationality or emotion, on its importance as an alternate state, not as a deviant state. It's very nebulous right now, and I need to do a lot more reading and a lot more examination before it holds water. The take-home will be a breeze--in fact, the prof has said something akin to "if you spend more than two hours writing this, you're doing it wrong."
Earlier in the school year, I spent time putting structures in place (emotional, routine, planning, etc) for when I got very stressed and needed to have more time. I seem to be using those structures despite the lack of overt stress, and some part of me is saying that this is slacking. Another part says this is sanity maintenance. A third says that I could be using this time more productively for any number of non-school things. Sanity maintenance is winning right now. Ahhh, academiangst.
Aside from that? I've been hooked on Narbonic by my twin, we're working our way through Season 1 of Veronica Mars, and I have a Regina Spektor CD on its way.
I'm running Orb tonight, and I'm still astounded by the coolness and joy of my friends--both the players, current and former, and the people who listen to me and offer suggestions and insane grins. Pretendy fun time is a wonderful hobby.
I should be done with all my work by May 20th. Who wants to join me for a celebration coffee? Especially if I haven't seen you in a while!
Well, there was a wonderfully touching and silly bridal shower thrown at
stealthmuffin's place last weekend. The memory-game was really nifty, and I've got the Oracle texts...at some point I'll post those, because there was some nice match-up between question and answer. Thank you all who came and made me feel so loved and special. Also, I now have soap that smells like a Dunkin' Donuts coffee with extra sugar. Mmmmmmmmm morning!Weeknight events included character-generation with
iresprite. I'm looking forward to some Spirit of the Century action as Kit Landis, star pitcher and undercover agent! We also had dinner with friends from the Div School, showed Veronica Mars to stealthmuffin, and watched the wonderfully cracktastic world of Utena. Britten's War Requiem was Friday night. I need to hear this more; the Dies Irae alone was enough to leave me shaking, and the struggle in the Offertorium was heartbreaking.
And last night
esqgirl and osmos threw a MassEquality house party, which had good wine, great conversation, and reminded me again that I'm not nearly politically active enough.I'm muddling my way through my papers, but I have the weird feeling that I'm simultaneously trying to accomplish too much and leaving vast amounts of work undone. That's on a meta-level, however; my assignments are pretty clearly being taken care of. It's more a feeling that There Are Things To Do With My Life that aren't getting done, not an awareness of chores unfinished or bills unpaid.
I have three papers and a take-home exam left. One is a short (5pages) exegesis of the refrain in Surah ar-Rahman. A draft is half-done. Another is a response to Jean Porter's work on Thomas Aquinas and contemporary natural law theory; I want to test her assumptions about exactly where tradition comes into play in this incarnation of natural law, and whether another tradition could be 'plugged in' without destabilizing the entire structure. Then there's one for my comparative religious ethics course; I'm struggling with how to articulate it. I want to work on irrationality or emotion, on its importance as an alternate state, not as a deviant state. It's very nebulous right now, and I need to do a lot more reading and a lot more examination before it holds water. The take-home will be a breeze--in fact, the prof has said something akin to "if you spend more than two hours writing this, you're doing it wrong."
Earlier in the school year, I spent time putting structures in place (emotional, routine, planning, etc) for when I got very stressed and needed to have more time. I seem to be using those structures despite the lack of overt stress, and some part of me is saying that this is slacking. Another part says this is sanity maintenance. A third says that I could be using this time more productively for any number of non-school things. Sanity maintenance is winning right now. Ahhh, academiangst.
Aside from that? I've been hooked on Narbonic by my twin, we're working our way through Season 1 of Veronica Mars, and I have a Regina Spektor CD on its way.
I'm running Orb tonight, and I'm still astounded by the coolness and joy of my friends--both the players, current and former, and the people who listen to me and offer suggestions and insane grins. Pretendy fun time is a wonderful hobby.
I should be done with all my work by May 20th. Who wants to join me for a celebration coffee? Especially if I haven't seen you in a while!
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Congrats on doing all you're doing. Sanity-maintenance is of utmost importance. The dusting can wait.
I wish I could be there for Orb :(
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Crap, me too! Distance is often of the stinky!
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Shall I let you know how the album as a whole strikes me?
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Good luck! *hug* for spare moments :-)