I have music in my head but there is no one particular song, just chords.

I had one of my meetings today and the paper seems clearer now. Which is good. :) But I still need to sit down and write it before Saturday. I wrote my 500 word paper as well but I still need to edit it. I also have a meeting for that class on Friday so that we can discuss my last paper and how I can improve this paper, which should be good. :)

Dinner at Dr. Boyer's residence tonight (6pm) I'm not going to stay super long, cause I want to work on the papers. Then I have my 3 classes tomorrow and then it's the weekend again. Goal is to be done with papers by Friday evening. (Maybe with the exception of correcting after peer review)

Thursday we are celebrating Paul's Birthday... I think I should make him a cake or something. We'll see, I would then have to locate all the ingredients and the English really don't believe in baking anyway... But I may ask him what his favorite kind of cake is. :)

So list of things to do for the rest of the week:
Write 2000 words on a comparison between GB and the US on National Identity
Edit my 2000 words and have Ken edit it too (send it to him by Thursday or Friday)
Edit my 500 words and maybe have someone look it over after I talk to Chris about it on Friday
Bake Paul a cake if he gets back to me and I can find all the ingredients (for Thursday evening)
Clean my room
Return Library book and Pick up Megan on Saturday
Go to London on Sunday.

About to start another week. This will be my fourth week here. Somehow it seems like it is going by really fast. And I don't know how I feel about that...

I accomplished a few things this weekend. I researched quite a bit, set a meeting with that Professor for Tuesday at 3pm so that we can discuss my topic and where I am going with my paper. I also wrote a very rough draft of my 500 words on Dover and will revise it greatly once I get back my paper on Thomas Becket tomorrow. I also finally took out the garbage in my room. I need to run the sweeper and put away things.

Megan comes in a week!!!!!

I need to write my two papers, finish all other homework, clean my room, do my laundry and figure out where I am going to put her all before she gets here..

Hmmm....now that I finally got a burner to work, I am going to make pasta for dinner and then take some more notes, maybe watch a movie and then go to bed. :)

Ok now I am going to complete my Shakespeare notes and begin writing my 500 words on Dover, now.... lol. At least tomorrow is Sunday and not Monday... look on the bright side. :)

Epic Fail!

Food Time did not turn into Motivation....

Food Time instead turned into Social Time which turned into Let's go to the Grocery Store Time... and completely forget about focusing... Now I have returned and should probably once again Focus! for real.

I need to focus, why can I not focus. Food time. Then more focus... hopefully.

Stressing out over the week to come, I need to write a 2000 word paper on Britishness, Britain's National Identity and what it means to be British as compared to what is means to be American and the U.S' National Identity. And I also need to write 500 words on Dover but then you already knew that...

I also need to clean because Megan is coming in 1 week exactly... I'm so excited! I have been thinking lately and this may be the stress talking... but I will be really glad to go home, don't get me wrong I love England and I want to travel but there is just something about home and seeing the people that matter most in your life that makes it better. I'm not homesick and this is an amazing opportunity but I think when it is all done and we are on that plane back to the other side of the pond it will be sad but it will be happy too. :)

Sad because I really do love it here, and I want to come back some day when I'm not weighed down by academics and I can actually take it all in like a sponge.

But it will also be nice to go home, sleep in my own bed, see my family and friends. :)

*Be able to call people again and not worry about how many minutes I am using...

See my cats again.

By the way I think I know what I am going to base my senior collection on... Architecture, and specifically Architecture I've seen on this trip and today in the Library I found a book by pure happenstance called The Fashion of Architecture and it's a look at how Fashion and Architecture relate and how each influences the other. :P

Anyway I should get back to the present workload, I still have a year to go before my senior collection...

I also need to improve my sewing skills, I was telling this to Erin earlier and yes I know Practice, Practice, Practice... but I'm not good at practicing... I need someone to make me practice. Hopefully after I get home in December I can sit down and devise a plan.... I should make a list of projects that I should do... or I should get a sewing book with lessons in it and just do every single lesson until it's perfect. I don't know does anyone have any suggestions?

Still sick, though I don't feel particularly bad right now... I do cough a lot and my nose is still stuffy and when I take a deep breath in, it sort of rattles in my chest and my voice is still frogy. But what I am saying is that it is not as bad as it was a couple days ago.

How encouraging I'm sure...

On a positive note I did send out 5 more postcards today, I have 5 to send out tomorrow and 5 to send out Saturday. :)

My goal for today is to accomplish 3 subjects of homework: Shakespeare, American Postmodernism and Ethics, so I suppose I should get working on that instead of procrastinating here...

Alice is having a house party tonight, hopefully I'll be coughing less by then.