Yikes but I've got a lot to do...

But that's not gonna keep me from writing. :)

Thoughts:
-I've now been nominated THREE times for secretary. Sorely tempted to run as 'despotic secretary' choice and reign supreme as tyrant if elected... no, not really. ;) I'll probably decline, just like I did for president.

-Jenny, Arthi, and Laura came by my room last night to ask if I'd be on socteam. Yaay! :) Even better, they don't want to have a socteam of more than 10 people!! It's unheard of: Blacker Hovse, getting rid of some bureaucracy? I don't believe it! But it'll be lotsa fun to work with them. Spent a while up in Hell after talking to them.. yeah, it's good to be around frosh. I sometimes find it hard to believe that I was once this happy and carefree. Anyway, they help keep me optimistic... :)

-which was useful last night after orchestra. It's been a long time since I've felt severely stressed in orchestra, but last night I was feeling pressure (mainly because I haven't practiced in a week... oy). AND I hadn't gotten more than 5 hours' sleep the night before (also my fault - reading, core paper and knightmare chess kinda ate up all the time). I was almost in tears halfway through from being so tired, getting yelled at a couple of times, and feeling like I wasn't playing up to par. (Damn mood swings. I hate being female sometimes.) But notwithstanding all of this, I STILL managed to nail most of a really difficult passage the second time through. AND I didn't screw up any of the third movement - I usually have problems with scherzos in 1, since it's easy to get off counting in a rest. The moral here is, I need to practice more.

-found pictures for core paper. 4 should be enough, and the captions will help boost my word count... Hopefully this'll work. Yaay for extensions.

for today:
-woke up kinda late... planned on getting most of core paper done this morning, but that sure didn't happen. German went well, Frau Washburn seems pretty pleased with me overall, even though I sometimes forget details. Ah well, practice will help.

-to do: core paper (due today!). h 161 reading + presentation (200 pages, due thurs). bishop essay and recs (only 1 left!). quick german review. think on h 97a reading/read over notes before discussion with deverell 5 PM. dress dinner tonight (can't believe I get to attend a dress dinner! but oy... I wish I felt better).

Ok, enough procrastinating. Time to really get to work on the core paper... see you guys later.