posted 2004/08/10 at 14:41
I wanted to write here these past couple of days, but stuff kept coming up. Really, for the past six months or so I feel like I've been neglecting the .org too much: not blogging here, not contributing anything to the other sections, taking that long hiatus from Backwash ... I guess things just kept happening, and while this site is a priority for me, it isn't that high of a priority. I do wish I kept up here more regularly, though. And when I do post here, I'd like to be able to say more than just a paragraph or so about things.
So while we're on the subject of the recent past, this year I've made a slew of Media Play runs that I've never bothered to report on here. The worst part is that I've got so many video games now, and I can't bring myself to play any of them. Seriously, I picked up stuff like Metroid Prime and The Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker and all sorts of other stuff, and I've barely even touched my video games all this summer. (I don't think I can count DDR because whereas I play other video games primarily to have fun, DDR is primarily a fat-burning tool for me at this point.) There's all this stuff that could be so new to me, that I could have such fun with, but I can't bring myself to do it. Most of the video games I've bought in the past six months, I'm not sure I've even touched them. On top of that, if I have motivation to do any video gaming right now, it's to try to squeeze in another go-around with Final Fantasy VII before the summer is over.
This past Saturday I picked up the new Tori Amos DVD, Welcome to Sunny Florida, which I've yet to watch (where the hell is all my time going these days?), but the previous Media Play trip was more important. See, one of the requirements of me getting my MA in English Lit at UT is to pass a test on thirty-three books/plays/collections of poetry. As in, sit down and all thirty-three are open game. Yeah. And since most of my undergraduate lit classes were in poetry, most of these books are either stuff I've never read before or read so long ago I've pretty much forgotten them, I've got an awful lot of reading to do. I don't have to worry about the test for another year or so (I only need to pass it once before I graduate), but I picked up ten books at Media Play (with a triple points Replay coupon, of course) so I might start soon.
And really, the rest of break here might be good for that. To my surprise, we've had another mild summer by Toledo standards, and for the rest of the week we're only going to have highs in the low-to-mid 70s. It sounds like good weather to go to Wildwood with my water bottle, a book or two, and just read the day away.
Of course, this all assumes I'm even still going to grad school. I finished my Honours Thesis a week and a half ago and turned it in, but I've yet to hear back from my advisors about scheduling a defence of it. This in spite of me sending e-mails, leaving voicemails, and even dropping a note off on campus this past weekend trying to figure out what's going on with that. On top of that, I still have a hold on my account because of some paperwork snafu with my financial aid. I'm supposed to be starting classes in less than two weeks here, but I'm not so sure I'll be doing that at this point. Ugh.
Wow. Hopefully that makes up for a few days of missed blogging there.
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