Between Nostalgia and Anticipation

I've been in kind of a weird mood this weekend.

First, I should mention that I had no intention of not being on blogspot for almost a week, but the stupid computer at school and here at home both were all "ARGH COOKIES!" and so posting has been nearly impossible.

So, a brief recap. No real grades this last week, as I had no tests or papers or anything. I did get back my philosophy tests, but I think I mentioned that in my last post. I have another one next Tuesday, which should account for the vast majority of my grade. Pretty much everyone is struggling with basic logic (I'm honestly not, it actually is pretty much second nature to me because it's what I do ALL the time in my writing and science), so I'm a hot comodity in there.

This week promises to be reasonable stressful, as Wednesday is like a day from hell: two tests, another chapter of my philosophy thesis to turn in. Ugh. I haven't even started writing those ten pages, and they're due in like three days. Disgusting.

I totally decided that with exception for my one required class (history thesis), any classes that I take in the next year are going to be for personal benefit.

Then upon finishing all of my classes for the next year, I'm going to spend about a month in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, doing nothing but travelling and seeing all the amazing sights there. I think I'll have had enough French to communicate pretty well in France, the Low Countries, and Switzerland, so that'll be good. I may try to learn some basic Irish Gaelic and Dutch for communication's sake.

I figure that in order to be able to travel for this long in massively expensive Europe, I'm going to have to save maybe around $10,000, as a ballpark estimate. I figure about $1000 for the flights, and $300 per day in travel, food, lodging, and tourist prices.

So far, I have about $500 saved up, so I only have $9500 to go, and around 90 weeks left to do it. I figure if I save around $100 per week, it should be enough to get me travelling for really the first time in my life. The plus side is that if I don't spend 10K, then I'll have lots of money leftover for another trip or something else cool.

Ok, anyways. Mon weekend. I basically did nothing that I should have done that's a really big deal. Except maybe biochemistry-I did a LOT of that stuff, considering I have a major test in it this week. I read all of my articles for this week too for advanced and bioseminar.

I'm starting to feel slightly less stressed out about my thesis class because I remember back in freshman year at Regis I wrote a 74 page paper in a month. I didn't actually start writing until the end of March, and here I am with 20 pages by Wednesday.

Really though, this weekend was sort of a disappointment on getting ahead in things. I suppose that I could spend a few hours tonight getting ahead in logic before Emma comes on.

By the way, Sense and Sensibility is an AMAZING movie. It's like the first movie in years to make me tear up. That part at the end where Emma Thompson, the totally emotionally restricted and socially dutiful woman, realizes that Hugh Grant didn't marry the skank and he's in her house because he loves her and wants her so she starts bawling is so heart wrenching. I mean, the whole movie you want her to get her man and it looks like he's gone off in this other broad's arms. All these other women including her younger sister are getting men and she's left alone. Then, all of a sudden he shows up and asks to marry him. Ahh. So wonderful.

I think my order of favorite Jane Austen movies so far are the good Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, and Mansfield Park. All that's left for me to see is Emma, and I hear it's REALLY good.

Well, I'm going to go get some actual work done now. Adieu mes amies.