Journal

Wednesday Woes

So, Monday didn’t go all that well. It went very, very badly, in fact. Plus, my conked up printer is still conked up. (Though I sort of got it working again with a screwdriver.) Things look horrible.

I’ve managed to get back to work on my current project. I don’t want to say that my ability to work seems related to the way things are going around me, but I will anyway. It’s not exactly proven, but I’m keen to believe that history cannot be explained purely by coincidence. It goes well. I wish I could say the same about so much else, but it goes well.

Having spent much of my time on lab reports, papers, and projects, I now realise that I have quite a bit of catching up to do reading-wise. There are so many readings. I started yesterday. There’s plenty of work still to be done. I just don’t want to still be in debt by the time it gets to Week Thirteen.

My homework list seems reasonably stable. It really is the end of the semester, isn’t it? Few things get added and it’s just a matter of crossing things out now.

I have been reunited with my closest friend. We are doing Waiting For Godot next. Perhaps there is reason to believe that things will start looking up. Perhaps not.

I have added a couple of books to my (immediate) shopping list. This cannot be healthy for either my wallet or my shelf space. Maybe I should have a one-book-a-week policy. That means I’ll get 52 books in a year. With the way my shelf looks, that can’t be good, but I’m sure it’s less painful than the oh-I’ll-just-get-these-fifteen-books-for-this-month plan.

There are two pairs of glasses that I swap between every now and then. I realise that neither of them sits very well. One of them is too short and narrow, so it doesn’t hook onto my years properly. The other is big and heavy, and falls off my nose easily. I love them to death, though.

And just as all of these unexciting things are happening, “Researchers find a way to make drops on a surface move in just one direction.” [via PhysOrg]

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