A brilliant time. Thanks.

I think it will be good. I have a heavy courseload but there will still be time. The program itself is 8 weeks and one of them is a vacation week, and I'll be there for a little over 2 weeks afterwards, so I really have 3 weeks to do whatever I want.

Yea. Summer courses. A lot of schools have them, though I don't think a lot of places call them a "semester". My uni has summer-semesters abroad and I managed to sneak into a Kyoto one. Should be a lot of fun but it's going to be a lot of work.

TOO FUCKING MANY IS ALL I KNOW.

Yesss. One is a computer job that doesn't have a lot of hours and I can work from home, but it is frustrating to START another job during term paper season. I luckily have no finals, but do have about 70 pages worth of essays due.

I have a summer semester this year so they won't settle down too much.

I'm doing okay. The semester's almost over and I picked up a second job so I'm a little crazy at the moment. You?

Thankies for the rep.

You lost it for a week, too??? I did during the snowstorm a few weeks back. I'm glad there was none this last week because I had 3 huge projects due. I now have application essays to write (my stupid program makes you take a trial semester before applying, so I have to write these essays now, when I'm trying to get all my term papers done), so I must get those done before this new chap comes out otherwise...NOT GONNA HAPPEN.

This new anti-capitalism movement is just...pointless, and the whole Occupy Wall Street thing is really annoying me. There's been "Occupy Harvard" for weeks now and they're all sitting there in their 500$ tents with....generators, bitching about how mummy and daddy are only making 98,000$ a year and not six figures. Meanwhile those of us who, uhm, can't afford to just not go to work and sit in a tent eating special-delivery pizza for 3 weeks have to slog through a few layers of security every day to get to class. It's just like.... Fuck. You. Maybe they should have taken the money they used to buy all their camping supplies and, you know, donated it, or walked 100 yards away from the gates to where that group of homeless teenagers hang out in the square and bought them all hot lunch or new clothes. //rant.

My lit. degree was world/international. I don't know if I could do just English and American without going crazy. You didn't like philosophy? What was your focus?

Only the interesting ones. BUT right now I'm just taking the prelim courses so I'm not doing much yet. I'll probably focus on Ireland, Germany, and Japan once I actually get a little further in.

Yea when I hung out with people as an undergrad, it was a constant struggle to escape to the computer now and then.

Sorry, I take forever to respond sometimes.

I feel like everyone I know has procrastination as their main flaw. I think it becomes a problem because the more you do it, the more you realize that you can get things done in a short amount of time but forget how crazy those last few hours working on a project are.

Sandor won me over with his funny, snarky lines and hatin' on knights. I tend to be attracted to certain character types and he's definitely one I always buy into.

The Tobi = Kishi theory is true!

Yea, Borders went bankrupt and vanished off the face of the earth, so 11,000 of us lost our jobs while the head honchos all got 9,000,000 $ packages. My new degree is in Foreign Cultures. HOPELESSLY VAGUE but it's basically a "do whatever you want" degree. I can write a term paper on horses in 19th century German literature at the same time I'm writing one on the Tengu and still have both courses count as credit towards the same MA.

What are you getting your degree in? And good luck with that. I can't even imagine how awkward that must be. I assume that complaining loudly about forums isn't a way to get rid of them? Usually that works...

You were MIA on NF, weren't you? I hadn't seen you around in a while.

I know. I sometimes feel like MADARA is Kishi's self-insert and not Shikamaru like the joke goes. "I'm going to stand here and boss everyone around and every time I open my mouth, I'm going to either offend someone or make every single reader sit back in their chair and say 'wtf!'"

Getting by. Graduated last year, went back to school this year, lost my Borders job. A lot happens in a year. You?

I know right?!
Kelsey made it for me!