posted 2006/09/19 at 15:37
Gee, for a while there I thought I was making good progress on this blog, but now I've kind of gotten caught up in all the reading I have to do for my MA exam. I'm not exactly sure how much, if any, I could talk about the books I've been reading without making the rest of you wonder just what the heck I'm talking about.
To make matters worse, I found out today that the test is two weeks earlier than I thought it would be, so now I have less than four weeks left to get ready. I think I can manage it, although now I'm really going to have to hit those books harder than I have been. I think I'll do okay, but at the same time I tend to get nervous enough about tests as it is (even when I don't need to do well on them to keep my grades up), and this one particularly is likely to be the hardest (academic) test I will take in the whole of my life. I don't think I've ever been that good at literature stuff as it is (at least not at the same level that the other MA students here at UT seem to be), and for this test I need to be not just good but superb. Yeesh.
I caught the end of the Bengals-Browns game on Sunday, and while I'm glad to see the Bengals doing well, I can't say that any sport in general is interesting me. Perhaps I'm just depressed due to the Tigers' freefall these past six weeks. Still, the Red Wings' preseason starts tonight, and I really don't have any interest in catching the games, although that may be more due to the fact that I can't eat Little Caesars now. (I've done so well on my diet these past seven-plus weeks -- I haven't had a single drop of soda -- and I really don't want to mess that up.)
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