Il neige! Il neige!

It's SNOWING!

Admittedly it's been claiming it would for the past two weeks, but now it's genuinely snowing and actually settling. The world is turning white and it's rather wonderful.

I hadn't realised quite how long it's been since I updated this (ten days? I lost count...) but I spent the last week melting my brain writing essays. I got them all done and handed in on time (one of them was even early! I don't think I've ever handed an essay in early...) and I got one of them back already! B+ (pretty good, considering I wrote it in about two and a half hours).

Managed to slip on the ice and land on my arse in a puddle yesterday morning, which is always fun. Had to walk all the way back to rez with soaked jeans. Thank god for the radiator!

My room is pretty dim at the moment. The bulb is wearing out and we can't find the RA to get a new one. I'm sure he's around somewhere, but this is a uni and it's Saturday. It's quite possible he's still asleep. I'll hopefully get that sorted today, anyway.

Think I'm getting somewhere with where I'm staying for Xmas. Planning on subletting a friend of a friend's place for a couple of weeks, and then off I go to Montreal to meet up with ma mere et ma soeur!

I have some hairdye now, and we're planning on doing my hair sometime this weekend - my roots look terrible! There really weren't that many decent reds to choose from. They all seem pretty dull and bland, but whatever; I have a colour and soon the blonde will be gone once more. I also got some boots while we were at the mall. They have fluff on them. And good grips etc... They're both pretty and practical, and ever so toasty warm for my toesies.

I keep running out of things to say, so i'm going to go and try to read the Bacchae for classics on Tuesday.

That was unbelievably painful

I just had my Classics final.

Oh. My. God.

That was the most painful exam I have ever had to do. I thought I'd learned quite a bit in that class, but the questions he'd given to us were terrible. They could have been answered in less than a paragraph. Which is all well and good, only an essay is significantly more than a paragraph. My first answer was two pages. Just. I was struggling to get that much down. The second one was a page. One page! I have never written an answer that short, but I wrote everything I could think of that was relevant, and I was struggling to get that much down. In the end I just got up and left.

I hope I haven't failed.

Anyway.

I didn't actually eat lunch today, and I've skipped two of my classes (too busy revising for that damned exam) so I'm kind of hungry, but it suddenly hit me that I hadn't updated this in forever, so here I am now. I'll go eat when I'm finished. I hope there's something good tonight, week one menu tends to be pretty well rubbish.

Went into Lennoxvegas for lunch on Saturday, given that it was brunch and breakfast had been terrible, and we found a little cafe that was fairly dead. It was literally the two of us, the owner and his friend (who is clearly always in there). It was nice though, small menu, nice decor and opera playing (we think it was Italian, it did get discussed). We had a rather nice half hour or so just sitting in there talking with them and eating bagels with (real!) cream cheese. It was a great change from Dewies, and they clearly don't get students in there very often.

I haven't done much of anything, recently. I got my first essay of the month in, my second essay got rescheduled for the same day as my third essay, so I now have three essays in the same week and two on the same day, which I'm really not looking forward to.

I need to dye my hair again - the roots are getting fairly bad again. I don't know how I'm going to accomplish it though, given that I'm in halls with no detachable showerheads, but I suppose I'll work out a way. Or get the hairdye and go to a hairdressers and get them to do it for me. Lazy option, but I don't know. I'm half considering shaving my head, but I think I'd probably regret it if I did, and anyway; I don't think I want to be blonde again, which I would be if I shaved it all off... It's just annoying me and I'm bored of it.

I think I might get another piercing if I can find somewhere nearby that does them. I think a friend of a friend lives in Sherbrooke and will know of somewhere.

Is all this a sign that I'm unbelievably bored and restless at the moment? I think I might take the weekend and go to the mall or something - I need to escape for a while.

This is the month of essays

I have four essays due this month. I dislike this. I made a start on the first one earlier and got halfway through the introduction before realising that while I know what I want to talk about in a general sense, I haven't actually worked out what my thesis is and what I actually want my arguments to conclude. I've emailed my prof though, so hopefully she'll get back to me with some ideas.

This is why I start essays late; because I generally get halfway through my arguments before I realise what I'm actually arguing and can write my thesis statement.

I also have a headache, which isn't helping much. We're sitting in Dewie's drinking coffee and munching, which is more interesting than my room, but I don't have my (epically huge) text book with me to look at the sections I want to talk about. I've made a start at least...

The snow is now gone. It didn't stick around for very long and it's warmed up a little bit (it's not quite so bitterly freezing right now, although it is raining). My little forecast gadget is predicting flurries on Sunday, so we'll see what happens. I want more coffee...

Mmmm. Coffee is good. I think it might actually be helping with the headache... Admittedly the first mug didn't do anything.

I'm so not getting anything done, but there's coffee and company and therefore the situation is a win.