gogmagog | Wow, I'm managing to screw up this grad school thing in new and special ways! (Reply)

...oh my God, I just realized that I had signed up to go to a lunch talk today, sponsored by the department, with a visiting medievalist (Geraldine Heng). She'd written one of the better articles we'd been assigned in Chaucer class, and I'll have to be giving a presentation on another of her articles a week from today in my theory class.

But after theory class today, I came home without even thinking about it and set to work on my paper/presentation for tomorrow morning, and for some reason my phone alarm (I'm using my T-Mobile pay-as-you-go phone, which is completely useless here, as a clock) didn't go off either. So I didn't even realize I'd missed it until I opened my university e-mail a few minutes ago and saw "Heng lecture" e-mails from last week. Crappity crap crap.

I feel especially bad because I was actually kinda looking forward to going to it, and my Chaucer prof (who organized it) had hinted VERY strongly that we should go to this event. So now I feel like a huge flake, and worse, like I appear to the department to be a huge flake. (Of course, I kinda WAS a huge flake when it came to this, but I'm mostly not normally! Honest!)

...AUGH AUGH AUGH. So I had to send an apologetic e-mail to my Chaucer prof. -_-;

Anyway, because misery shared is misery halved, have some depressing political news: apparently national park employees must now swear fealty to Bush's agenda in order to be hired. (From