Apr. 30th, 2012

carrie_ironhorse: guy smashing cello (smash)
It's finals week, and I think I have managed to get in over my head even more than is usual for this time of semester. Why oh why did I decide to craft so many projects, ON A DEADLINE? On top of finals! Auuugh. I'm graduating on Friday and while I am, and should be, excited, I'm more stressed about getting everything done.

The list:
  •  Final paper, due tomorrow at midnight, for my "Pop Culture of South Asia" class. 2K words, I have not one word written. Also note that I'm writing this post instead of working on it. I still have over 24 hours! What could possibly go wrong?
  • Final exam to study for, Thursday morning. Not too worried about this, but I do need to review my notes for an hour or so.
  • The Damned Graduation Dress. I'm stitching the lining in right now, by hand. I chose entirely the wrong fabric for lining and yet am stubbornly sticking with it—it's extremely lightweight silk habotai which I dyed at the same time I dyed the center panel fabric. It's too light, slightly transparent, and slippery as all hell, but I dyed it and it's silk, and I won't put a poly lining in a silk sleeveless dress, and now it's too late to get anything else. And I paid for it already. (See also: sunk cost fallacy.)
  • My mom's kitchen towels. Now fortunately these are due on Monday (her birthday) and could potentially be pushed back to Sunday (mother's day) if needed, but then I'd have to buy something for her birthday or figure something else out. I only have 8 inches of the first towel woven, and once they're woven they'll have to be hemmed and washed and pressed.
  • Socks for my grandma. She's coming tomorrow and they won't be done yet. I think as long as they get done before she leaves, next Tuesday, I'll be okay.
  • Stuff I have coming up, that will take mental and physical energy (both in prep and during) which cannot be devoted to the above: picking up my grandma tomorrow, spinning group (maybe? if I have a decent amount of my paper done), Phi Beta Kappa initiation on Thursday, big university graduation ceremony Friday morning, college graduation ceremony Friday evening, informal horse show on Saturday morning (my first!), graduation party Saturday evening, horseback riding lessons on Sunday.
I'm tired just thinking about it. I'm having a really hard time motivating myself for the paper. I've done well on all of my previous papers for this class but I've also felt that they were terrible while writing them, which is never fun. Why can't I just fuck around on the internet and wind up with my paper magically written? (By me. I realize there are ways I could do this and end up with a paper that's not by me, and that's not really the goal.) *sigh*

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