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I try to do my best, but I guess I never had the knack

2nd May, 2009. 1:20 am. May dip take 2

After a long evening of G&S, gin and friends I threw myself into the North Sea with a cry of "God forgive me"


Never have I felt so clean and ready to tackle life as in the moment after I submerged myself.

Hello academic purity, spring and summer.

14th July, 2008. 8:25 pm. I'm feeling very peaceful right now

I read two lines in the description of a play today!!!
This is far more amazing than it sounds.

Booked hostel for Montreal.
Now just to get through revision and the exam. No problem.

Revise old homeworks and correct them tonight(because I finished all my real homework)
subject list for revision chapters 1-5
Do laundry
shower
get a real nights sleep and not hook self up to a coffee drip tomorrow


Also I'm very proud of myself because I had a real conversation with the professor from Morocco, the one with an insane accent. He is extremely sweet, he was asking me about my major and where I studied and when he realized I was an american studying in scotland and see my family twice a year he got really excited because thats just like his daughter, she is studying in Tunis to be a dentist(6 year program, she's in the year above me) and she only goes home for christmas and summer. Now he calls me "Bintee Kathryn"(my daughter Kathryn).

I'm feeling less intimidated by this language. I've also signed up for the proficiency test next week, they train testers to grade oral proficiency, and as a guinea pig you get a free assessment. sweet deal.

Other good news, BCZach and I did our skit today, and it was really good. I've never been in the best skit, and it feels great now.
Wajibatman(homework+batman) basically batman helping people with homework and getting in a tussle with the joker in the library. Full of in class jokes. Zach=ace.

I'm so excited to get really good at Arabic.

In the vein of crazy people like me, my friend Luciano has a suicidal semester coming up. On top of his major(international relations) he is taking introduction to Chinese, Arabic and Spanish. Granted the guy is Italian and spanish will be nothing for him, but starting chinese and arabic at once...He's a brave fellow.

I'm so excited for the weekend off though, bohemianism in Montreal!
and Mike will be here by the time I get back. Woot, everything ist gut.

13th July, 2008. 4:23 pm.

yay, it happened!

I love you Arabic! You're gorgeous!

now to get back to an A. The mid-term awaits!!!

Current music: Gilbert and Sullivan..

21st June, 2008. 11:57 am.

I want to be in scotland so much I've begun planning my packing for september.

This is sad, as I could be studying instead.

9th June, 2008. 8:49 pm. home life

calm has been the main description for the past week and a half. Definitely missing everyone back in Scotland and excited to get back and pick up where things left off...I'm on freshers team so between cleaning up parties every morning, looking after the ill freshers, auditioning and hopefully a date or two as well as catching up with everyone after the four months apart...I don't remember where I was going with that, suffice to say I will be busy.

Home got off to a rocky start, it was hard to come back and be thrust into the same circles and life as last year, but I think the adjustment is complete, this being said I am very excited to go to Middlebury Friday and work on my Arabic...wish I had my grades already.

My goal between now and then is to log two more work days and kick this cold I have and make my head stop hurting(mental head ache has reached a complete fourth day. Lovely.)

Been having odd nightmares about guerrilla war groups kidnapping the company cast and making us perform without error. We are doomed to fail because Matthew and I are under rehearsed. Oh the Joy of jungle death. Hopefully these will end soon because of the A I got in latin american history.

26th May, 2008. 1:10 am.

not feeling super prepared for arabic tomorrow. Hopefully it will work out.

23rd May, 2008. 1:14 pm.

Had the odd dream that a post grad psych student got mad at me for ignoring him while he was dressed as an elf doing interpretive dance, a la Russia's eurovision entry. This followed marrying my friend David in a van driving from la riviera gourmet to Waltham street where I jumped through a window and ended up at an a cappella party for the group that wants me to beat box next year.

And of course because the guy was mad at me I had to leave my dorm(Clarke middle school?) and go talk to him. Don't remember what happened next, but it was equally weird.

This dream is intensely preferable to revision, which is not going well, I just cant find enough info to constitute an essay about cadillismo on my exam tomorrow, and then I need to research revolutions in 3 countries, but that shouldn't be so bad.

I wish it was monday.

21st May, 2008. 12:02 am. Eurovision has taken over my existence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usBMTNMGz54&feature=related

BiH's entry...this is of course the english version and I think it's adorable, but the original sounds better.


Search Estonia Eurovision 2008 and watch. You will understand why the UK is not part of Europe.

13th May, 2008. 1:52 am.

if my neighbor makes this much noise again tomorrow at stupid o'clock in the morning I will report her to noise complaints.

She is ridiculous. During semester time we have noise curfew from 11pm-7am, something I'm generally forgiving with, excluding sundays when I go over at 1 am or 3 am and remind her I have an arabic test I would like to prepare for could she turn the crap music down.

Because its exam period we have a 24/7 noise curfew and if you get warnings about noisiness you are not allowed back in hall. She is moving into an apartment and have nothing to lose, so she is being a real bitch about noise. Both last night AND tonight I've gone over and said, "Charlotte, its almost 2 in the morning, can you please be quieter? It sounds like you guys are in my room." Always following her shouting and laughing and carrying on like there are no people trying to sleep for miles. Last night- "oh sorry we just started we will stop now" lies. They had been making noise for hours and continued to do so.
tonight "Oh, Sorry I have my sister in my room thats my main concern"
"Is she OK?"
"Oh yeah, just down for a visit"
"so can you please be quieter? its almost 2"
"my sister is here she's my main concern"
just to clarify, there is no crying, there is no pain going on, they are just being noisy laughing and breaking common courtesy rules.


Shut up, Charlotte. I'm sick of your noise and I've talked to you about it every week of the semester. Tomorrow I call the wardens.

11th May, 2008. 1:10 pm.

Finally at the end of the year, I'm very excited to be going home in 19 days, but I will definitely miss Scotland, it is always beautiful here.

All thats left are exams...and I feel very good about them, I have Firsts or Upper Seconds in all my classes and thats a huge relief.


on the bad side I have fallen into an american sleep pattern...so my body is five hours away from where it should be at all times...... oooops.

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