prelims: Check.

[littlepurple]

Actually, that's a lie. I have to write a long ass paper for my depth prelim in the next year. But that doesn't have to happen over a 36 hour period...

So yes its done. I'm glad. I need to shower now. WHile working I kept a list of odd thoughts and observations to post when done.

Ahh yes kudos and thanks to SOO many people. Friends are awesome and the encouragement was so great and so helpful and SOOOO appreciated! thanks you so much peeps.

Here's my list of funny thoughts while taking prelims:


things i'm doing a lot of:
urinating, smoking, constantly reapplying deoderant, asking rich stupid questions.

i mean affect not effect, i think

franticness sets in at t minus 24 hours.

i simultaneously get hungry and have the desire to smoke. I think this is due to the use of frequent smoking for appetite suppression in college...

I don't know when i have to pee or when i'm hungry until it NEEDS TO HAPPEN NOW... that's not very adaptive.

four days with no chlorinated pool water or products, and my hair looks pretty damn good, thankyouverymuch

i have no intuition about where to put fucking commas

it is creepy when you look up at your document and you see that your ex-boyfriends full name is repeatedly typed in the middle of your essay... its like he's haunting me or something, except that he's not dead and we're on good terms.

No matter what, I will always always turn things in at thedeadline, not early. If i have one sentence left in the last two hours, i will wait for hte last ten minutes ot write it.

Comments

[jjamresearch.livejournal.com]

Congrats! you made it through!

[dynamang.livejournal.com]

I had a similar experience once with random names popping up in essays. I took a final my sophmore year that I had stayed up all night the night before so i could study and write a paper. I spent the entire exam fighting to stay awake. I kept nodding off to sleep and then waking up...so my head was bouncing all over the place. I woke up at one point and reread what I had written and it made no sense and included the name of my friend amanda(from grade school) written over and over again. I had just come home from a weekend in Florida to attend her wedding so I guess that's where it came from, but it was still pretty weird. Also my professor was watching me fight to stay awake and at one point i realized that he was laughing at me. At least those days are over. :)

I forgot this...

[dynamang.livejournal.com]

HOORAY! I knew you could do it, Sarah. :)

[muppetmayhem.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Time to relax, party, and hit the post quals slump... a tradition of all grad students.

[tiurin.livejournal.com]

For some reason, I thought it'd be really funny if it read "it is creepy when you look up at your document and you see that your ex-boyfriends full name is repeatedly typed in the middle of your essay... its like he's haunting me or something, which is weird since after i axed him to death, i carefully chopped him into 50 pieces and made sure to bury each piece in a separate state."

Okay, maybe I haven't gotten enough sleep lately.