YAY!!! It's OVER!!! (for a few weeks, anyway)...

I just threw up my second midterm paper in the instructor's lap. It wasn't pretty... but I'm now only looking to pass. For both of the past two weekends, I had be trying to write two midterm papers. I was mostly unsuccessful... in that I did everything but write those papers, until hours before they were due (luckily they were not due on the same day)... some of the fun activities I engaged in instead included:

• reading T.S. Eliot out loud... very loudly
• parsing Hail Mary in Latin
• watching Catherine Breillat movies I've already seen and not liked
• changing my Facebook interface to Russian and seeing it all like it was the first time
• looking for David Foster Wallace articles in scholarly publications
• joining an online dating site called "brainiac dating" or some such thing, and then writing inflammatory comments at the pretentious losers found there
• reading the OED (did you know that to procrastinate means to put off until tomorrow? this means that if you intend to do something later on today, you are, strictly speaking, NOT procrastinating)
• signing up for twitter (which is so lame that despite the fact that I really was looking for ways to waste my time, could not actually bring myself to wasting time there)
• tuning my lute
• watching an episode of Marriage Ref... which is probably contemporary US television at its best?

But now it's all over... and I'm back to putting as much surf in my life as possible... until the finals are here, that is.