well hell yeah

grades are in. A's. holla.

also, my uncle tom's cabin paper was accepted to a conference in louisiana(!), which will be in march/april of 2011. i'm kind of sort of 100% totally excited. conferences are a big deal in grad school world.

i've been MIA lately spending time with mi familia. philip leaves tomorrow (i'm sad) and samuel is born on tuesday. big things are happening.

oh... hey.

yeah somehow i forgot to mark a truly wonderful event: semester 3 of grad school is complete.

(i'll wait for the applause to die down before i continue...)

yes and in true yvette fashion i decided to celebrate the night before heading back to san antonio so i am currently hungover and in a pissy mood. barf city! no, not really, just a bad headache.

in other news, philip is in from Boston this afternoon. Woohoo! For those of you who don't know (all one of you who reads this), i see my brother once every year and a half, two years, something like that. so i'm really excited. last time i saw him was the summer before starting grad school. that feels so long ago... i was so young... so innocent... so in love with literature.

in other other news, one of my students asked me out on a date. we went last night. it was he with whom i celebrated the completion of another semester. just kidding, of course. he's like 7 and i'm old enough to be his grandmother (okay he's probably 19 or 20, but still).

in final news, if i ever take engagement pictures, shoot me in the face.

Dear professor whose paper I am currently writing,

Paper 2 - Complete

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

Actually, that might be pretty soon at the rate I'm going. My 48th hour of consciousness is now gone with the wind. 49 thinks I'll blink if it turns on the fan and points it at my eyes. What 49 doesn't know, though, is that I saw him trying that move where you blink a lot right before the contest begins thinking it will satisfy your need to blink for a while thereby prolonging the time in which you are able to keep your eyes open. 49, you moron, every smart person knows that the "blink a lot before the contest starts" move never works. Your eyes get teary and you can't see straight and it stings and YOU BLINK! Save your strategery for an amateur like yourself, young friend.

Did I mention that I haven't slept in over 48hrs? Oh, okay, yeah. Must've shut my eyes for a minute while typing that.

You have no idea how long it's taking me to write this. Seriously, if I just stop typing for a minute and, you know, just sit... MAN, instantly in the zone.

Monday, Dec. 6, 2010

obviously i'm not in the mood for clever titles.

i've turned in one final paper and i have two more to go. one is due wednesday, the other is due next monday.

do you realize that i'll have written a total of sixty pages by next week? good god, i'm exhausted just thinking about it. as for that presentation last week: veni vidi vici. now i work on turning it into a final paper.

you know what freaks me out? like really freaks me out?


that's right, the aurora borealis. you call it beautiful, i call it creepy. look, man, sometimes i don't want to be mystified by the power of nature. i want to sit in my little world and pretend that i am in control of everything - i am the center of the universe. cause if i lose control, well, uh, i get a little psycho.

my last therapist said that in our next session she wanted to talk about my issues with perfectionism (which, she said, could be contributing to my anxiety -- i love how therapeme is one big DUH). i never returned.

do it.

guess what

i slept a total of, oh, twenty minutes.

i have a presentation at 3:30.

it's not finished.

i have class for most of the day.

i got this.