I swear, almost all of my thoughts today revolved around the concentric castles that I'm writing about for my final paper. I worked on it last night, spent five hours in the library writing, and then a couple more hours tonight typing as much as I could manage. I'm still not nearly halfway through the subject outline I laid out, but have passed the halfway point on the word count. Now I can stop worrying so much about having enough material and start banging out whatever so I can revise later. It's not due until April 30, but I really want to have it done after this weekend so I can write the other two papers due April 23.
It was blatantly obvious that today was the day after St. Patrick's Day here: only five people showed up on time for my 9 a.m. class, although several more wandered in late, and even the library was emptier than usual. It might also have been because it was cold, rainy, and mad windy here today, not just the hangovers. Either way, I got a nice window seat for my ordeal in the library. I'm going to get up early tomorrow even though I don't have classes so I can get a good seat again and spend as much of the day as I can stand in there, typing away at this assignment.
Wow. See what I mean? All my thoughts keep going back to it. I'm sure it's boring for anyone who's talked to me this week. I wasn't planning on staying in tonight, since there was both rock climbing and an Arthurian movie night at Aras na Mac Leinn, but nobody else wanted to go and by the time I remembered I was late for both. Oh well--at least I was productive.
OKAY that's enough talk about the essay. So I got a lovely surprise in the mail today--the package finally appeared! I feel so bad that Mom and Dad spent that much money just to ship me food...but my Kraft macaroni and cheese supper with pretzels on the side was crazy delicious. My roommate just watched and shook her head. I convinced her to try the pretzels though, and she kept coming back to grab more. Next I just need to convince her to eat a peanut butter and fluff sandwich...but she's pretty adamant about not trying that...
It's crazy to think about, but two weeks from today will be the first day of spring break. Now, that doesn't sound so inspiring, except here spring break isn't in the middle of classes, it's at the end. Finals start immediately after, so basically there are only a few lectures left for each class. I'm excited, nervous, and sad all at the same time. Of course, that's also because today marks the halfway point of my stay here. I miss home, but I like it here too...I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel. It's kind of like how I was scared and excited at the same time when I flew here alone.
Well, today was a boring day, so that's about it. Tomorrow I'm going to pack myself a huge American lunch to eat in the library with lots of homemade deliciousness from Mom and then see how the day goes from there. Maybe there will be some good stories that time around. But I'm rambling. Good night!
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