hot mess and a half

life is both terribly dull and really really exciting right now. mostly just busy though.

namely, this is because i leave for boston tomorrow! waaaaah - so excited. But, of course, i have a bazillion things to do today, which is why i woke myself up too early and am now giving my brain a couple more minutes to adjust before i start.

most importantly, i have to edit and conclude my paper for dain. it's a rather boring paper, being a lit review and all, but in drafting i put in a few rather horrid puns that i need to go find now and remove. because, somehow, i don't think he'll appreciate them. the paper is long enough, has 50-odd sources (I know! when did i even skim 50 sources!?!?!?), and i think does what it's supposed to. if not, well, i'm screwed. and don't care.

if that gets done at a decent hour (i.e. before 1, which should be very possible), part of the afternoon will also be spent attempting to finish (not just conclude, but actually write the last section) my colonialisms paper. which i wrote 8 pages of yesterday sitting in the library, something i generally hate. but i did NOT want to haul even more books home. so i randomly decided to look at A Passage to India as an imperial/anti-imperial novel (i know, i'm a historian, but i'm also a lit person and the prof seems okay with that. hopefully.). and have now skimmed and summarized too much criticism. i hate that that's all i do as a grad student.

other things that need doing today:
laundry, returning various books, writing a few more holiday cards, turning in my financial aid papers, buying gifts for my girls here, baking cookies, finding something for rp, oh, and packing. i know that list is actually longer. but if i'm to make it through and still get to watch prunway tonight, i need to start now.

dull post. like my life. but by the end of day, i should have all sorts of reasons to celebrate how exciting my life is!