Archive for February 2009 | Monthly archive page
So, I haven’t been update the past few days because Karen and Veronica came up from Oxford this weekend to visit. Karen goes to St. Mary’s, was at Oxford with me last semester, and is going to be my roommate when I return to St. Mary’s. Veronica is at Oxford this semester and I met [...]
30 days until spring break… In 30 days time I will be sitting in Oxford meeting the people I will be living with for the three weeks, hanging with Karen, and preparing to start my research for my SMP. Even though I will be spending long days in the Bodleian, it will be on my [...]
Yesterday, was my good friend Elysa’s 22nd birthday. Since she was with me at Oxford, I decided to make her a video of memories of our time there.
As foreseen, yesterday was absolutely hellish. I spent all day in the library because the fifteen or so books that I needed to read in order to complete my paper were all on reserve, meaning that I could only check them out for three hours at a time and, therefore, had to stay at the [...]
Nothing was accomplished today. Oh well. It means that tomorrow is going to be absolute hell as I attempt to both research and write my essay. Such is life. I would write more, but I really should do work instead and, unfortunately, my sensible side is winning out at the moment.
This week’s round of presentations are finally done. Only two left to go for the semester (one in 9th week, the other probably 9th or 10th week.) Yesterday, I spent the entire day at New College on the Mound in the library. It actually was quite nice at first since New College is, like the [...]
2nd presentation of the week down, 1 more to go. Plans for this weekend? Run the Great Run route, write essay (due Monday instead of Friday, but only 2000 words (instead of the 3000 that I had thought). Still-argh!), research/write Retrospect article. A glimpse into the future: (As always to remind me of what is [...]
One presentation down, two to go this week. Two articles and an essay to write as well, but those aren’t due until 7th week (it is 6th week right now). The one today was on whether or not a differentiation can be drawn between ‘literate’ religious devotion and that of the ‘illiterate’. After having spent [...]
What did I do today?-Read 20 pages about the Scottish Reformation-Went running Absolutely pitiful. It was just so hard to motivate myself to do anything else. I mean, I could read Washingtonpost.com and listen to music….or I could read incredibly dry accounts of the Scottish reformation (half of which are in Middle Scots and, therefore, [...]
After much deliberation, I’ve decided to delay in taking the Foreign Service Officer Test until October (as opposed to June). Not only will this allow me to attend my friend Elysa’s graduation party (an event that I have promised in blood to attend and which I am looking forward to), but will provide me with [...]
