Wow, I'm managing to screw up this grad school thing in new and special ways!

[gogmagog]

...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 ahebert.)

Comments

[brandchan.livejournal.com]

I used to to stuff like that all the time. I still do that some times. I used to have girl scouts the same time after school each week but at some point I keept forgetting and going home. And I do it with doctor's appointments too, though I try not to because they like to make you pay for them. It's really bad when I'm really stressed. Maybe that's it for you too and you need to relax a litte?

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

That could be - this is kind of HELL WEEK (without the Navy SEALs). Two papers this week + two presentations this week + one presentation next week + constant shitload of reading = STRESSED YOSI. x_x

I'll totally be able to relax after Thursday though. (I hope.)