a day that felt even longer than usual, despite many usual activities

got up at 6:30am in order to prep for the first internship processing meeting at 7:30, then went to MMS where i felt very excited about semiotics (again!), and then i began a long string of task completion/obligation fulfillment.  Photo lab (where i printed TONS of material, and felt really good about it until Gary told me that I needed to reprint my picture because of one tiny little corner that was under exposed...), catching up with Brandy (about film fest and life in general), letter(s) to Mallory (both joyous...and more serious in nature), and then! my last day at Dakota!   When I finally crawled into bed, I felt like I had been awake for an eternity...

snow day

early in the morning, paula poked her head into our room to inform us that indeed! we had a snow day!!  I made an excited squeal right before rolling over and sleeping in until ten thirty, and then i spent the rest of the day dueling my desires to both be productive and to abandon responsibility--thankfully, i did a bit of each, and successfully felt satisfied.

meetings

MMS was its norm (where i sit back, watch the dog-and-pony-show, answering a few questions when i can), but the rest of the day was quickly consumed by meetings of various sorts: connie and lisa at the wellness center, debbie at the weigh in, mom at harmon's, production meeting, another production meeting and then?  reading lots of student blogs kept me up ridiculously late...

my day with lots of classes

ultimately means that i'm ineffective on task-completion, as i go to chem, chapel, history, chem lab, break-for-small-tasks-that-start-to-overwhelm-me-because-of-their-increasing-numbers, sosc, tv network meeting (where i feel pulls of devotion and estrangement), and then back to the room to again try to make progress on my reading list.  ended the evening with a DDR party with the suities--a first for the suite, and a first for the game in such a context (for me).

from iconography to ideology

sundays in january mean long work days for alyssa, and i sat at the kiosk listening to summer's incessant bickering, trying TRYING to be mindful of her emotions and needs, but ultimately failing.  went back to the suite, where I began steadily drudging through another book on film genre.

a crossroads of sorts

i sat in one spot all day and read: emperor of china, sociological perspective, boy meets girl meets genre.  i went to work, came back, read some more, and broke the promise i had made myself that "no matter what i had left to do, i would still grant myself permission to relax with one of my netflix films."  sometimes, when that which you love intersects with that which you begin devoting your career to, it crashes into a messy mixture of desire and responsibility and indulgence and obligation.

fighting sickness

Class went by quickly, and in the afternoon I felt effective as I plowed through webpage stuff.  I visited Amber and baby Liam, then had a much-anticipated dinner with the suities at Irish Exchange, and then, still fighting this wretched cold, I drifted to be at a very early hour only to miss a surprise visit from vince and tyler...