stunt_muppet

WE HAS FOOD. *munches cereal*

Um, yes. Except for the Chem exam (which I'm fair certain I failed), Friday was actually quite productive - we finally got the room cleaned up, bought enough food to last us for a couple of weeks, and were actually legitimately social. I feel so much better about everything, even though my workload hasn't changed and Big Huge Essay is still looming. I'm still playing catch-up, but now I'm playing catch-up with caffeine and cereal at my disposal anytime I like. Hell yeah.

Of course, on Friday I also lay down for what I thought was a one-hour nap at 11:30 a.m. and ended up waking up at 3. I should know by now that the time I plan to spend napping has no bearing on when I will actually wake up.

I never used to take naps. Before I went to college, I physically couldn't nap. I couldn't fall asleep in the middle of the day unless I was sick. Now, give me half an hour and a flat surface (bed or sofa preferable but not required) and I'm out like a light.

Used to be I couldn't sleep in cars, either, and now I spend pretty much the entirety of my commute to and from school dozing. Unless I'm driving, of course, because, you know. Napping while driving would be bad.

Things what I must accomplish today, because if I post a list on LJ it'll serve to remind me of what a slacker I am when I gratuitously check LJ later in the day:

- Chemistry problem set, or whatever the hell's due this Monday. Accomplished, after a fashion - there is no problem set due Monday! My Chem teacher is a wonderful, merciful human being and I don't deserve him.
- Reread "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"; start outlining Big Huge Essay and highlighting quotes. Find a print source for "Innsmouth" rather than WikiMedia Commons, since the English department frowns on Wikipedia and all its iterations. Kind of accomplished - I've finished rereading "Shadow" (I'd forgotten how damn verbose Lovecraft could get) and realized that my original plan - to examine "Shadow" for elements of the American gothic as embodied by "Brown" - is sort of pointless, since the elements of the Gothic are baldfaced and unapologetic and the cosmic-horror elements really don't do as much to distance it from that tradition as I thought they did. So, new plan: compare and contrast the idea of the community of the unholy in both works, and how it plays into the Romantic idea of individual over collective. Maybe.
- Get dress refitted at Men's Warehouse. Sort-of accomplished; turns out there was no problem, and she was just calling to let me know the dress was done. I'm having the straps done up a little bit more. Also, good news - turns out that the plunge bra I bought a couple years ago actually works great with this dress, so I handed that off to the tailor as well - she's going to sew straps into the inside back of the dress, so I can thread the bra through that when I put it on and thus avoid any embarrassing back slippage. Success!
- Finish Bio annotations, glossary entries etc.
- E-mail advisors back.
- Call parents.
- Do stretches.
- Head to After Midnight; be legitimately social again.

Number of these I actually anticipate doing: Two. Maybe three if I'm lucky.
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On a completely unrelated note: If I wrote Zoe Herriot/GLaDOS, would anyone read it?

It's sort of a rhetorical question, because I'm writing it anyway, readership or no (hey, whoniverse1000 needs all the pairings it can get if it's going to hit 1000, yes?), but I just thought I'd ask around. Any other Portal-loving Whofen reading this, or am I the only one?

Three guesses what I'll be doing today instead of my schoolwork. Oh yes.