Creative Cravings

I have to interview the Department Chair for the Communication Department tommrow. It is for my Journalism 101 class. I had to take this class to fill my schedule before I decided not to graduate this semster but to get a double major in Sociology instead. Wish I had known that, I could have taken another Sociology class. I dislike this class. Its okay to learn another form of journalism, and according to the tests I would make a good one, but I don't like it.

I am nervous about this interview. The assignment is vauge, find something interesting about him and right a inverted pyrimid article. BTW the inverted pyrimid? It has got to be the most boring form I have EVER come across in my LIFE TO WRITE IN.

I have no idea what to ask him. I perfer to do interviews when I have to with a few feller questions and branch off, going where the interview takes, me. I am more intuative then rigid. I tried to resarch him. There is nothing forth coming on the University site, google, internet searches yeild nothing. I did find him on linked in, but there is bear bones, nothing to go on. To say I am nervous is an understatement.

Also they want me to get a twitter. I don't WANT A TWITTER.

I already have a live journal, an insanejournal, a dreamwidth, facebook, now linked in for this class, a seperate school blog for this class and now twitter for this class? Do they not realize what a massive time suck this is all becoming??? AGGGHHHHH

I am in my Journalism 1010 class right now, which i did not need to take but I needed an extra class for the government program I am in. I thought it would be interesting, and it can be, occassionally, But right now, I am soooo bored. We are discusssing Quotes.

I didn't do my reading for the next class. This is the first time I have done it this semester. Trust it to be the the time we have to write something on the material.

Well the Paper is written, the endnotes are done. And now... I am coming through the MLA style manual because after Highschool and Eight years of under-grad these things stillto find a way to throw me for a loop with the refrences. Its okay I love puzzles. These ones just take awhile. I've gone through a couple of MLA manuals since Highschool thoulg LOL. Its the one book I always sell out money on to keep up to date on.

What posses somebody to title a collection of scholarly articles, Queering the Middle Ages? Do they fail to see that this title is likely to offend people? Yes the collection is about homosexuality in the middle ages-obviously- but still! It is sensational, which I guess is the point, but it still strikes me as unbelieveably unsensative and rude.

I do feel like doing a reactionary sociology paper, on some of the looks and or treatment I've gotten just from carring that book around. Unfortuantely, I am not taking a class where it would apply. Maybe I'll make notes a keep the idea in case I take Gender studies as an elective.

I have to pick a topic any topic within the Caunterbury Tales and write a 10 page paper on it. Easy Right. Wrong. Do you realize How BIG THE CT is and how many topics it coves? Even picking a single TALE. tends to run you up against about oh... five topics.

This topic is just too open ended. I can't pick wear to start. My teacher's advice of pick a tale you like and pick a topic within one. Isn't helping. The one's I like either are the ones my teacher loves. This is not a good idea. Never do a large paper on a topic you know your teacher not only knows more about then you, but actually loves. At least not with such a limited space of time. It is not healthy to your GPA. Or problem number two the tale is to short for even ME to get 10 pages out of.

Don't get me wrong I have really enjoyed this class, and this teacher. A lot. I would take another course offered by him in a minute, but his paper topics? They suck.

I need inspiration, FAST, not now but NOW!!!

This doesn't bode well for this semseter. I got my first Essay assignement for my Chaucer and his world class this week. Its only three pages and due Friday. Now this should be a snap and ordinarly it would be. But this one NO NOT SO MUCH.

The essay question: Find a similarity between Dante's first five Canto's of the Inferno and Chaucer's Caunterbury Tale's General Prolouge: Ellesmere's Manuscript and Comapare them. Some contrast is acceptiable.

The problem. I have read the Prolouge two to three times the Inferno Twice and parts of the Canto's so many times I've lost count. I can only findcontrasts!
Whimper. I don't know what I am going to do here! I feel dumb. I am not dumb. I want to Ace this semester. I only have two classes. At this rate I don't even know if I can pass the essay. I certianly haven't started it.

4:30 am wake up call after spending a sleepless night the night before is to early! Add to that the reason for the wake up call my mom's surgery and you have the start to a wonderfully stressful day for me yesterday! By 5:30 my mom is suppose to be in surgery only she isn't she isn't even in pre-op not really she's still in the same day surgery per op area where they get her ready perfore taking her to pre-op. They give her a sedative shot, becasue she has panic attacks for IVs so she will stay calm for the pre-op IV ectera and wait. Only the sedative dosen't appear to work on her. When they take her back to pre-op I am told to go to the waiting room, but Jr went with her, was actually ordered to go by the pre-op nursing team, according to SDS nursing team. I think this fell under the prior proper planning prevents patient hysterics plan in the nursing staff's mind! Not that the ansteologist seemed to care in his words when my mother told him she had panic attacks and was he going to sit on her because the sedative hadn't worked, "No and I'm not going to let anyone sit on you either." He may have had the bedside manner of a toadstool but appearenly he was good becasue he had the IV in in less then ten seconds, my mother didn't even seem to realize he did it. She says she felt the pin prick, Jr doubt that. And the injection that followed that, took effect immediately putting her into what they call a "twilight sleep" for the operation, instead of general.

It worked better, she wasn't sick after words though it did take her longer to come out of the sedatives it seemed then general, but oh well, by about 10:30 we were home, having eaten McD's on the way home. By about 12 I had husteled my toddlerish acting grandparents ::rolls eyes:: Why must they touch and change EVERYTHING lately??? out of the house and we all collapsed into sleep. Woke up long enough to feed us McD's again. Two servings of it a day is soo gross!!! Feed the dogs, find out the internet connectino was FUBAR and fall asleep again.

Woke up today to start the nursing process again, find out my schooling is still Fubar-looks like I am getting another semster off- and got a perm. Jury is stll out on wither I actually like it. Everyone else seems to like it, they say it looks good, makes me look younger, slimmer, yadda, yadda, me I can't decide. Oh and my internet is still splottchey. I sense a new router purcuse in my future. Darnit.

Fics
Big Bang ALMOST DONE finally despreally needs beta Donna/Ten friendship post finale
Lopaka Tanu request fic done posted needs beta Torchwood Ianto centric G
Kabal 42 request almost done hand wrtten needs typing and beta
pinkfairy request WIP- fic mapped and in mind
Personal Torchwood WIP that started as a Dabble and lost its mind well growing
Owen Season 2 intospective peice stalled
Harry Potter Behind Blue Eyes-stalled
Harry Potter Hermonie Wolf -stalled-being restructered written
LTs EFC fic idea -in consideration

In case anyone one is wondering why I haven't been on much the last few days. I got my wisdom tooth pulled Monday afternnon. So that knocked out two days of online time, and went back to school to find out I have a test tommrow covering three Units of work. Normally I like Summer Classes but cramming some courses that equal about 3-4 months of work into 1? Some its doable, some its just slightly insane. Sighs, its a good thing a good portion of these Geography Units where review from my previous Geology Course.

Yes, you have read that right, I have been working on my BA in English for going on 8 yrs. Part of that is transferring schools, part is injuries, part is switching majors back and forth. The largest contributing factor since I joined this Uni, however would be the difficultly I am having in obtaining those last 4 discipline specific classes I need to gain my degree. I thought I was going to whip one of them out this summer. I got news today, one week before the class started that it had been canceled. No reason why. Its annoying, however I am glad I got the advanced warning-short as it is- and didn't show up to class to find it written on the blackboard.

Now I have to figure out, if I am going to take a class I don't need, and risk not being able to attend the classes,because of the NC doctor's appointments, and messing up my GPA, or if I just want to start paying back on all four of my student loans come august.

I realize things come up in Prof. lives, but its annoying when it messes up my perfectly planned finical aid. Yes, that sounded self-centered I know.

On a lighter note, I watched Over My Dead Body last night. It was an okay movie. After the way my Uncle's bragged about it I expected it to be better. Upon watching it, I think the appeal of the movie to them had more to do with two things. Uncle one 1) Eva Longora in a wedding dress
Uncle Two: Skinny Red headed, green eyed girl, yes he definitely has a type. The movie does a few funny moments. But I am glad I didn't pay to go see it, or rent it. I give it about a C.

On a side note. I know I am a virgin, at 25, say it loud say it proud, if a bit frustrated! So I might be a bit sheltered by today's standards but am I the only one that found the idea that the girl labeled her friend gay because he hadn't tried to kiss her after one week a little two WTF??? worthy to even be funny? I know the point was to generate laughs with that situation, but I found the absurdity of it left me going WTF??? at the TV and thinking "SKANK" more then it made me want to laugh. Am I to sheltered, or frigid?

I am a feedback addict. I am not getting the most feedback that I feel I could for my Torch wood fic here, part of this could be my fics suck. Part of this could be insanejournal is a smaller than say livejournal. I don't want to start posting there again, but I was wondering should I?

Second. I decided to take some classes over the summer. Two, both classes I need to take. Both classes I do not want to take. Geography, and lab. Yuck! I would rather take Geology, which I love!!!! But the Geo labs at this Uni, are not as...new as the ones at the community college.... where I took the other classes. I am HIGHLY allergic to metals. IE that is not a good situation. Whines so, sighs.

My neurologist wants to give me Botox injections in the back of my legs, as a type of nerve block to hopefully help my CP. These are not FDA approved and are therefore still considered experimental. This would not normally worry me. America's FDA regulations have become just this side of making it so that medical advances are no longer possible in this country. Frankly, if it were not for me be a case study in some cases I would not be walking now, the thing is I read the FDA alert on Botox and CP and it worries me. The risks maybe higher than the potental pay off in my case, and the idioticacy of this office staff over the last three months is less then reassuring! I am all for being involved in my medical treatment, but it is not my responsibility to make sure the entire medical community of that office does their jobs!

Well, school has started again. I found out who my new advisor was, it had been changed and no one bothered to tell me. I made an appointment with her, and dropped in. She told me I needed four classes in my major and one core class. I am not suppose to hve to take the PE course, I had suppossedly switched catalouges to avoid that. And the four classes for my English Major I needed, none of them were on my schedule, and I could not get into any of them. So I dropped all the useless classes I was taking and loadded up on my sociology minor. Only I found out that one of the classes which is still listed as a Sociology class online, is now considered a Anthropolohy class (Anthropology is being given its own major) as well as one of the classes I took 2 semesters ago. Those of you who were listening to me and helping me on the fairy paper, might be interested to know its that class. Now I don't know if either of the two will count towards my minor. Though if you ask me, they should since they were listed as Sciology classes when I took them.

Another class I was taking, was listed as a TBA. Come to find out it was an online course. At first I thought this would be a great thing, since I am always online anyway. The thing is I already missed one of the writing assignments, what with me forgetting to check the class everyday, and the dates not being all switched over with the new professor, plus it is a whole new online course system. So sighs, part my fault, part the University's end result is still me having missed one assignment! I finished the reading assignments, the online disscussion work, and the quiz for the online cllass. I still have to write a paper for it, due tommrow, but I can't string one coherent sentence together, regarding the reading right now, so I have to do that after I get home from my early morning class tommrow. The early morning class, for which I will not have done the readings, because the Professor gave me the syllubus for the wrong course, and has not posted the syllubus online! At least that one is in no way my fault!

The good news is, I now have a desk, and an office chair. My back had warned me it was not putting up with another semester of doing my work on the bed with my computer cart. I also bought a cooling pad that does in fact, make my computer run faster and smoother. It was twenty bucks well spent! Also, my chair just went on sale right after I bought iit, so I took the receipt up to the store and got a refund for the difference! So that was good!

Also, LT... I think i have a larger plot for your Firefly fic, I just haven't had time to transpose it yet. Its not very intricate, probably only three parts but i hope you like it anyway. Do not look at me that way... you want UST with the boys.... that means a shorter fic, especially if I can't channel River! I have to razz you but you know I love you girl. Also where is that House fic you were talking about? I couldn't find it, I also can't do you articles if you don't send me the updated story! Yes I have a hell of a ton of work but I plan on doing some writing before academia sends my recently found muse into hiding again!

Amy, loved the Titanic vid, which is saying something since I haven't been able to get through the tear jerker movie. I never realized Spy Daddy was in it!

EFC fans I might just get some more icons made, if I can find some good graphics, so if you want a icon/header/sig made give me the pic links and size requirements. Same for LFN, HP or LOTR. Note I will not make any shipper graphics for HP with them any younger the OOTP, and that's pushing it!

Going to bed now!