also, I'd like to get some writing done [19 Dec 2009|09:39am] lily22 [ mood | a bit tired ] First day of winter break, and while my facebook feed filled up with statuses like, "FREEE!!" and "I'm home!", I was pulling an all-nighter trying to finish my 429 assignment. It was actually due at midnight, but I've been living from deadline to deadline these past few days - literally as soon as I turn in one thing (at the very last minute), I'm rushing to finish the next (by the very last minute) - so I guess it was inevitable that I finally missed one. Anyway, feeling pretty good right now. Snow is keeping me on this deserted campus for an extra few days, which will be nice. Just good to not see any human life for a while. I wonder if I can get away with staying a bit longer. Microsoft finally got back to me! I'm kind of excited. I mean, on the one hand, I understand that they probably took this long because they were going through all the applicants they liked better first. On the other hand, if they're going to pay to fly me out to Seattle for full-day, final-round interviews, it's gotta mean something, right? (...wait, they are paying, aren't they?) I'll keep telling myself that. Break is going to consist of studying for that interview, and working the two gigantic final projects both due on January 12, the biggest I've had all semester. I'm not even going to touch finals until after that. Ho ho ho. 8 comments|post comment

some realizations [15 Dec 2009|06:28pm] lily22 [ mood | busy ] 1) Imitation is the finest form of flattery indeed. ( and consider me flattered ) 2) I need to take creative writing. ( Spring course schedule below. ) 3) It's time for me to decide if I'm going to stay in the co-op for another semester. The number of times that someone on one of my teams has ditched or canceled makes me super sad. I even wrote a 5-minute poem about it. ( No kidding. ) 4) I make more tl;dr entries when I'm busy and stressed. On the other hand, I'm so close to the end. I can list just about all my assignments and exams for the rest of the semester on my to-do list. Can't wait to check these suckers off. To get through this week, I just have two very large assignments that I haven't started yet. Then I'll have all of winter break to work on final projects and study for final exams. diamondsparks says we should spam mallowmateys in that time. I'm inclined to agree. 5) I no longer count the hours that I sleep. It's no longer strange and exciting to me, I don't find it cool or hardcore if I get four hours, two hours, none. I just want more. 12 comments|post comment

writing is in your blood. like platelets. [11 Dec 2009|10:04pm] lily22 [ mood | いそがしい ] 1) I revised "Not In So Many Words" and submitted it to the campus literary magazine. I'm much happier with the ending, as I think the message I was trying to convey comes through more clearly, but I'm still not in love with it, and I'm a bit alarmed that they accepted it at all. I think that it's a mark of poor writing if, after you write something, you have to write something else to explain it. But this was an awful piece anyway, so just briefly, ( so briefly that it requires an lj-cut... ) 4) Shit, I signed up for the new Glee RP that just opened up. Can someone slap me? Or join me. finnale. I've been so good about keeping to my no-RP rule, but you can't expect me to not participate in MMRPG now that it's slowly sputtering back to life, and then once you're in one, it's so easy to join more... I am such a shameless addict. Except for the part where I feel shame. Deep shame. So much shame that I'd like to ask for a Mr. Schue to commiserate with me over lost babies. Thanks. 5) This has no relevance whatsoever, but my roommate got me a pillow for Christmas! It's so I can take naps. Leaving aside what this says about me and my sleeping habits, it's really soft and wonderful! But today when I got home, I saw that there were two handprints on it, like this. I'm pretty sure I must have left them, but that was still a rather creepy discovery. Maybe a ghost is trying to communicate with me. Also, Esther got me this cute polar bear cookie from Starbucks. Also, I'm hugely screwed in terms of schoolwork. You don't need to hear about this, but uh. I have three large projects, including one final paper, due over this coming week. Then I have two final programs crapcrapcrap due on Dean's Date. Various Japanese assignments, like little bee-stings here and there. And then just two finals and I'm good to go, but how on earth am I going to make it that far? 5 comments|post comment

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