and since i'm on here

i figure a brief update that has nothing to do with butter is in order.

classes i take are still going well. that assignment i was going to fail ended up being very well received. this is good, since high marks are good things. and it is bad, since i really don't know how exactly it received those high marks. i'd like to repeat whatever i did that was so successful, but i'm not sure what it was.

the translating was.... well. it took a lot longer than i thought, was a lot harder than i thought, and ended up with more errors than i'd have liked. that post about all nighters being an impossibility wasn't entirely accurate, i fear. i'm still capable of them, but they must be all nighters. not most of the nighters. if i allow myself to sleep, i won't get up for at least eight hours. so there's no chance really of waking up again after four hours of sleep.

so thursday and friday were one long hellday to me. i actually saw a student of mine in the bookstore on the second half of hellday, and she asked me something about the paper. i'm not sure what my expression was, and i've got only vague ideas about what i actually said to her. apparently, i said something about emailing me, because she did.

the class i'm teaching, since we're now on that subject, is still going well. i've fewer problem children than before, and the unique situation where the students simply want to discuss the texts so deeply that i have a hard time fitting in the literary terms. not exactly something to complain about.

i tell them about their papers tomorrow. that should be fun.

and now i must reflect on a transcription. then make some head notes. i figure if the last reflection went so well on so little brain power, i'd better wait to do this one.

love and peace