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I'm telling myself that enumerating and elaborating these will help me wake up, thus allowing me to actually get cracking on a morning when I want nothing more than to lie in bed and stare mindlessly at country music videos. Since I don't even *like* country music videos, as a general rule, it would be nice to get out of my current mindset.
a) Things I had to do on the 6th that I don't have to do now:
1. I wrote a paper about the purposes of the author of the _Gossamer Years_ (a 10th century Japanese woman, second wife of an important Fujiwara prince).
2. I wrote a paper about the _Rape of Nanking_, and now I never ever ever have to read about it again.
3. I've now read every last one of the 4 books I have to have read for my 2 history finals in the middle of May, so that I'll have time to read each one twice. Luckily for me, they're all interesting.
b) Things I have to do before the 24th:
1. read the remaining 8 (of 12) journal articles for my "Modern China Journal" project, then assemble them into scrapbook form and write a page or two of analysis about each of them.
2. Finish reading Michael Gelven's commentary on _Being and Time_. (_Being and Time_ is by Martin Heidegger, who wanted to be to self-awareness as fluid mechanics engineers are to washing cups. Or at least, that is the thought I had about him the last time I did the dishes.)
3. Finish doing my research for a 15-20 page Existentialism paper, and know enough about how I want to write the paper that I can go in and talk to the professor about it. This also entails making a bibliography of sources, so that I can see if he knows about useful sources I don't have yet, and writing some point-form notes so I don't go in there and simply make incoherent noises at him. Of course, I also have to actually go in and TALK to the professor, which is the part that makes me nervous. I don't like discussing papers before I've written them; I'm not sure whether it's my sense of privacy or yet another inherited superstition. The paper's going to be about Jean Paul Sartre, Paulus Tillich, and their experiences and philosophies of love and war. The research is fascinating. Too fascinating, since it makes me want to actually READ every book I check out, instead of just sucking the relevant parts out of it.
4. This isn't crucial, nor academic, nor even a responsibility, really, but it is my birthday on the 18th, and I would like to at least go out to dinner or something. I doubt I will, I'll probably feel too guilty about what's not getting done.
5. I need to write a paper about the single common theme in the anthology _To Live and to Write_, which will probably be something along the lines of "The struggle between the desire for independence and the habit of dependence in the lives of Japanese women of the early 20th century." I'm not too worried about it, really, since the book is a pleasure and thus marking it up to show myself all the possibly useful evidence will be a breeze.
6. I have a biomechanics assignment (all practical physics questions, yay!) due on the 16th, and I'll most likely have another non-mathematical biomechanics assignment (long-winded answers, boo) due on the 22nd.
7. I have an extremely detail-oriented Bacteriology test on the 24th, which will require several hours of studying in the few days beforehand.
8. I need to read "The Wall" and an essay on Existentialism, both by Sartre.
c) After the 24th of April:
1. Go through all the red tape of making sure that all my final exams are set up in such a way that I either don't NEED the Disabilities Office to participate, or have gotten their stampings on the red tape.
2. Read a bunch more existentialism (we get partially graded, see, on the quality and quantity of what we have to say in class about the readings).
3. The abovementioned existentialism final paper has to be actually written by the 15th of May.
4. Bacteriology final, May 14th; Women in Asia final, May 14th; Modern China final, May 15th; Biomechanics final, May 16th. So I have to study for the two sciences, and make up useful notes and reread the books involved for the two histories.
a) Things I had to do on the 6th that I don't have to do now:
1. I wrote a paper about the purposes of the author of the _Gossamer Years_ (a 10th century Japanese woman, second wife of an important Fujiwara prince).
2. I wrote a paper about the _Rape of Nanking_, and now I never ever ever have to read about it again.
3. I've now read every last one of the 4 books I have to have read for my 2 history finals in the middle of May, so that I'll have time to read each one twice. Luckily for me, they're all interesting.
b) Things I have to do before the 24th:
1. read the remaining 8 (of 12) journal articles for my "Modern China Journal" project, then assemble them into scrapbook form and write a page or two of analysis about each of them.
2. Finish reading Michael Gelven's commentary on _Being and Time_. (_Being and Time_ is by Martin Heidegger, who wanted to be to self-awareness as fluid mechanics engineers are to washing cups. Or at least, that is the thought I had about him the last time I did the dishes.)
3. Finish doing my research for a 15-20 page Existentialism paper, and know enough about how I want to write the paper that I can go in and talk to the professor about it. This also entails making a bibliography of sources, so that I can see if he knows about useful sources I don't have yet, and writing some point-form notes so I don't go in there and simply make incoherent noises at him. Of course, I also have to actually go in and TALK to the professor, which is the part that makes me nervous. I don't like discussing papers before I've written them; I'm not sure whether it's my sense of privacy or yet another inherited superstition. The paper's going to be about Jean Paul Sartre, Paulus Tillich, and their experiences and philosophies of love and war. The research is fascinating. Too fascinating, since it makes me want to actually READ every book I check out, instead of just sucking the relevant parts out of it.
4. This isn't crucial, nor academic, nor even a responsibility, really, but it is my birthday on the 18th, and I would like to at least go out to dinner or something. I doubt I will, I'll probably feel too guilty about what's not getting done.
5. I need to write a paper about the single common theme in the anthology _To Live and to Write_, which will probably be something along the lines of "The struggle between the desire for independence and the habit of dependence in the lives of Japanese women of the early 20th century." I'm not too worried about it, really, since the book is a pleasure and thus marking it up to show myself all the possibly useful evidence will be a breeze.
6. I have a biomechanics assignment (all practical physics questions, yay!) due on the 16th, and I'll most likely have another non-mathematical biomechanics assignment (long-winded answers, boo) due on the 22nd.
7. I have an extremely detail-oriented Bacteriology test on the 24th, which will require several hours of studying in the few days beforehand.
8. I need to read "The Wall" and an essay on Existentialism, both by Sartre.
c) After the 24th of April:
1. Go through all the red tape of making sure that all my final exams are set up in such a way that I either don't NEED the Disabilities Office to participate, or have gotten their stampings on the red tape.
2. Read a bunch more existentialism (we get partially graded, see, on the quality and quantity of what we have to say in class about the readings).
3. The abovementioned existentialism final paper has to be actually written by the 15th of May.
4. Bacteriology final, May 14th; Women in Asia final, May 14th; Modern China final, May 15th; Biomechanics final, May 16th. So I have to study for the two sciences, and make up useful notes and reread the books involved for the two histories.
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