dear isobel

I’m so sick of studying I want to cry. I don’t care about the post-Revolution era in Latin America, I’m not remotely interested in Germany after World War II, I certainly don’t care about Thomas Hobbes and understanding Galileo and don’t get me started on the French subjunctive.

Boo.

On the plus side, yesterday, the Phillies remembered the best way to win is a combination of the pitcher NOT giving up home runs AND scoring more runs than the other team. Always fabulous. I always say — if you’re breaking out of slump, why not kick a little New York ass at the same time? Yankees or Mets, I’m not particular. I hates them both.

I tried to lessen my work load by splitting all my final presentations/papers/studying into equal parts over the next two weeks so that I wouldn’t cry.

It’s not entirely working.

I did finish about 2/3 of my math portfolio and the rest of my final speech for Public speaking today. Yesterday, I did section one of my Modern China paper and about 1/3 of my French paper.

I just can’t find the energy to finish section two for China and the the next third of the French paper. *sniffles* My French paper is planning a vacation to a French speaking country in French, so I chose Tahiti. It is not cheering me up to plan the dream vacation I won’t be able to afford for another decade. Evil. I should have chosen Luxembourg or someplace else I’d never want to go.

Between sleeping, lectures and homework, and the occasional night out, I find myself with very little free time. I miss being in high school if only for the fact that I had fewer responsibilities.

Now I have to go clean my room and start my laundry, because I’m pretty sure the article I need for my speech next week is hiding under my bed. Good grief. And *then* I have to translate the Hunchback of Notre Dame from French to English to have any hope under standing what the frick I’m listening to on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And if there’s time before my Conquerors lecture tonight, I have to figure out the different bases for math class, so I don’t have to hand in another blank quiz.

And possibly lunch, but I guess that’s optional at this point.

I got accepted to my fall transfer to Rutgers-Camden! I’m super excited about this, mostly because I hadn’t really planned on a back-up school. Heh.

Back to figuring out how to balance chemical equations. (Bring back very bad memories of T and Chemistry class.)

As an Ipod addict, I’ve been a fan of the Itunes Podcast directory for a few months. I’ve been able to keep up on my Bill Mahr, my Anderson Cooper, my MSNBC crew without having to clog up my DVR too much. The podcasts are wonderful — both video and audio and they’re free.

Today, I was browsing Itunes and clicked Itunes U…and found nirvana. Anyone who knows me knows I’m a sucker for history. I’m a history major, I want to teach history when I graduate and I have stumbled across a huge repetoire of History lectures and features from universities and colleges from all over the country. From STANFORD, for crying out loud.

Very awesome. There are tons of categories, which I will continue to peruse. However will I get through them all?