4 posts tagged “to do”

I would have sworn that it was at LEAST Thursday, if not Friday.

For some reason, I am utterly disorganized this week.  (aside to the peanut gallery: YES, even more so than usual!  Hush!)

Now then, another to-do-before-more-recreational-internet list:

-Continue practicing for and take piano test

-Turn the completed-but-unreadable-by-anyone-by-the-composer theory project into something that my poor teacher has a prayer of being able to grade (yes, it's finished--just totally and completely unreadable.  my handwriting is bad, and my notation is worse.)

-review comments on scholarship application essay A and formulate some sort of intelligent reply to the teacher who is so kindly looking it over

-write scholarship essay #2 (it is researched and outlined, I just have to, well, WRITE the blasted thing)

-do the French assignment du semaine (yes, Madame, I SWEAR it will be done and done correctly by Saturday!)

-write out/translate the preparations for the week-from-Monday French oral exam (see previous remark)

I have that nasty suspicion that I'm forgetting something.  Grrrr.  Must go review planner.  I feel like it's...what?  A paper?  No.  A project?  Being worked on.  Financial aid?  FINISHED FOR THE WHOLE BLASTED YEAR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!  (every time I thought I was finished, they requested something else: a truly pointless worksheet that covered nothing that my FAFSA did not, a copy of my high school diploma--never asked for in the two years I've been attending the institution, I might add---etc, etc) Did I pick up an extra shift at work?  Agree to a trade?  Don't have a note of it or remember it.  A meeting with a teacher?  I don't think so, but....

Le sigh.

Off to bed.  If it's important, I'll wake up at 2 AM and remember. 

However, a couple of lines-of-the-week, courtesy of the customers.  Both are Shakespeare-oriented, interestingly enough:

Customer, handing me a copy of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "Do ya'll have the movie the book was based on?"

Me, deadpan: "Absolutely.  It's in the drama section.  Right next to A Midsummer Night's Dream, which, incidentally, also inspired Mr. Shakespeare to write a play."

I wouldn't have DREAMED of saying it if I had even the faintest idea the customer would have gotten it.  Needless to say, she didn't.   According to her T-shirt, the parents of this intellectual young female are paying about 30K/year for her to attend a local university. 

The second one was more disturbing, and happened a while ago.  I'd neglected to blog it 'til now.

Phone rings. 

Me, answering" "Thank you for calling The Bookstore.  This is ubicaritas; how may I help you?"

Customer on phone: "Yes, I'm a teacher at XYZ High School (public), and I was wondering if you have the Sparknotes version of Romeo and Juliet."

Me: "Let me check." Pause. "Yes, I have three copies, ma'am."

Customer:  "Only three?  I'm going to need about 50."

Me: "FIFTY?  Er, okay.  Well, how soon do you need them?  I can order fifty and have them here next week."

Her: "Well, I teach eleventh grade, and my students are going to read it in class.  Can I just send them in next week to get the books?"

Me:  "Yes, ma'am, as soon as you get an email saying we have them in.  Now, to just check, these aren't the 'easy-read' versions of Shakespeare with the modern English on one page and the original Shakespeare on the other.  These are the outline-basic-plot-structure Sparknotes versions."

Her: "Yes, that's exactly what I need. It'll cover everything they need to know.  Thank you!"

Well, at least she said thank you.

But our educational system is still going straight to the netherworld in the usual conveyance.

I think that the items on my to-do list have been engaging in innapropriate activites and consequently reproducing.  It's the only possible explanation for the way that list has grown.

No more posts until the theory homework is done, the French test is taken, the French homework is completed, the scholarship essay is written, and the letters-of-recommendation folks are (politely, sweetly, respectfully, gently) nagged.  One of the latter set some kind of world record with the timing of her letter; I got it LESS THAN AN HOUR after it was requested.  (thank you, maestra diva!)  I'm still waiting on the other two.  However, in fairness, I really can't say a word until my portion (the essay) is finished, so....

In short, no more Internet for me (except the online French course) until this list is whittled down.   I will even hand the Hair Goddess my two new mysteries (oh, the humanity!) and tell her not to give them back until I show her sheets of completed theory homework, grades for the French test and homework, and a slightly intelligent essay.  I'm at the library now, and here I will stay until the theory homework is finished.  Off to be a good student, for a change...

If I get all this done this afternoon, I shall get some sushi for dinner.

(drools, and says in her best Homer Simpson* voice "mmmm, sushiiiiiiii")

*Disclaimer: I do. not. watch. the. Simpsons.  This is a pop culture reference with which virtually anyone is familiar.

so little time in which to do it, and yet if given the opportunity I will spend the entire time freaking out about how much I have to do without actually accomplishing any of it.  :P

I am leaving tomorrow morning for northern Illinois.  I will literally be across the street from Wisconsin.  Apparently they've been having highs in the teens and twenties, but it is supposed to warm up to the thirties/forties this week.

I have purchased boots.  Side note: if you want to purchase boots, check out post-Christmas clearance sales.  I got a darling pair of heeled black velvet boots for a mere $15 plus tax.  Must post pics.  I didn't want to spend much on them as I really don't think I'd use such boots very often in Texas.  They were originally $40 or $50.

I have gotten a larger (and more chic) purse.  I was trying to decide whether or not to return it (is it really necessary?) when some garlic salad dressing somehow got inside my current purse.  Don't ask.  Suffice to say that I'll be keeping that new purse and that vampires left me strictly alone last night.

What do I have left to do?

-vacuum my room/bathroom

-scoop the cats' boxes

-dust

-clean my desk off

-finish packing except makeup/toothbrush etc

-go to mall, change wrong foundation for correct foundation

-call various Illinois people and figure out when I will see them, try not to stress over this

-print ticket information, or at least write down flight numbers/times

-run last load of laundry

-cash check, pay rent

-do manicure and pedicure for myself

-oh, yeah, and get to Mass.  I have twenty minutes in which to go from pjs to nice clothes/hair/makeup.  bye!

Pardon the brief hiatus over the past weekend, but I was just a tad busy.  I (in no particular order):

• Replaced the shower head in my bathroom (other one died of age-related issues).  I now have a showerhead/hose combo that will let me wash my hair in the tub without getting a horrible crick in the neck from trying to get my head under the tap.  Yay!  I feel very home-improvementy; it works perfectly, and I love it.
• Went to a gorgeous concert at school.  Christmas music for two pianos, both being played by incredible musicians.  Included some Nutcracker stuff.  Went home feeling very Christmassy (incomparable pics by a brilliant photographer to be posted soon)
• Purchased over half the Christmas presents that I need to get, and got ideas for the rest.
• Tidied, vacuumed, dusted most of the house
• Grocery shopped (long overdue)
• Cooked a loin of pork and a butternut squash (to be consumed through the week)
• Hard-boiled some eggs for salads
• Washed/ironed/folded/put away the laundry
• Scoured catboxes
• MADE IT TO MY FIRST RUNNING GOAL OF .5 MILE WITHOUT DYING (more on that at a later post)
• Went to beautiful Traditional Latin Mass for the First Sunday of Advent (more later)
• Studied for finals/voice juries
• Worked 6 hours Friday and 8 hours Saturday (money=good)
• Braved the Walmart to get wrapping paper, Christmas lights, and kitty litter (no small feat at this time of year)
• Wrapped several presents (plenty more to do, though)
• And went to bed last night by 9, which gave me 9.5ish hours of sleep.  I haven't felt this well-rested in weeks!

And that last reminds me that I really want to get 9ish hours of sleep again tonight, as I'll get all of six tomorrow night.  So, for now, good night!