sometimes i am thinking. and then self-publishing.

Often I have thoughts.

• My professor brought cocktail fixin's for our final class, and instead of lecture we had screwdrivers, Bloody Marys, and wine.  9am Tuesday.  I would like to strongly recommend graduate school to you if you need some life plans
• Of note: exam week is much harder. Blowout does not exist. My brain is extra-mushy and I think I legitimately have carpal tunnel from the typing bonanza of the last three weeks.
• But if that's what floats your boat, then yes, it is awesome.
• One of my professors came to the lounge for coffee and happened to see me on a Twitter break.  "Oh, are you on the chat-Twitter-mail?"
• I made an awkward noise between a laugh, snort, and cough, which led to choking. It was hilarious, and yet I wanted to respect my professor. I think I just scared him.
• This is how hellish my finals week has been:
• I turned in a close reading last week on Laertes.  It was a pretty amazing (if I do say so myself) deconstruction of the father's inappropriately gendered response to a daughter's suicide, and I was really proud of such a neat angle this late in the game
• Until I went back to the passage for my seminar paper yesterday and realized Laertes is Ophelia's BROTHER
• I turned in my rewrite today.
• The shame will live forever.
• I officially have a winter break job: making smoothies at the cafe/sitting at the gym desk in the lobby area!
• + Commute can't be beat: enter elevator. Hit "Lobby." Turn left.
  
• + I don't have to work at McDonald's
  
• - She doesn't allow books or Internet during down time.  Ouch. It's like the Middle Ages up in here.
  
• + I'll only work mornings and will have the rest of the day for napping/reading/cocktails
• - The pay is next-to-nothing
  
• + I will get paid
• This is more for the Tribe 09ers (et al)
• Tribe mascots announced! HERE 
• I'm all about "The Tribe Pugs," personally.  I'm down with adorably cute mascots, and imagine the JMU Bulldogs' confusion as we unleash the "Tribe Pugs!"  (AHAHAHAHAHAHA it will be awesome.)
• That is my vote. You can give your own feedback here.
• I can feel, physically, how exhausted my Mac is.
• I just counted and no joke:
• 2 Firefox windows
• 15 tabs of research/Gmail/FB/primary sources
  
• A software download that needs to restart my computer, hovering in the background because:
• 8 Word files are hanging out, two more in the dock, and a PDF that I'm not done transcribing
• Google Chrome Beta download! For Mac!  It exists here!  And PS. its URL tags "huzzah" at the end, it's adorable.  And I can't shut down until I can also do that!
• Mac can hardly move.  Grad school is wearing him out.
• I have 55 more pages to turn in by 9am Tuesday. 20 of which are due tomorrow at 9am. I am a little nervous I'll fall asleep at my desk and sleep right through the deadline. 
• Probably the nightmare of sleeping through the deadline will wake me up.  So I'm not all that worried?
• BUT THEN it is winter break and winter break means books, wine, mo' money, Christmas, family, travel, sleep ...
• This grad school thing you guys. It's brutal.

These are thoughts that I have.