I must push my barrow all the day

[fellmama]

Someone must be awake to share my misery.
This paper has to be done tonight, as it is due in class tomorrow morning. The other paper, by contrast, is due at 5PM. That means it isn't getting written.
Oimoi!

Note to self: View ye NOT kittenwar.com when there are papers to be written.

Comments

[jcmcfee.livejournal.com]

I'm awake! I sympathize! What is your paper on?

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

Ugh, it is on Theocritus. How is Simaitha characterized in Idyll Two? Translation: tell me what I want to hear! I am Dana Burgess! TREMBLE AT MY WRATH!

Bitter? Oh no, I'm not bitter.

Are you feeling any better? I hope you're no longer bedridden.

[jcmcfee.livejournal.com]

I think I might possibly be the only person not scared to death of Dana... maybe that's just the plague speaking, and layers of denial over missing almost two full weeks of class to this crud. If you happen to see him you should vouch for my genuine sickiness so that I don't suffer too much wrath. I mean, I missed a flippin Schwa performance for crying out loud.

I am up and about and I just finished my app to Cairo for next fall. Mollie is going too! Weeee! I can't wait.

- John

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

I'm not so much scared to death of him as simultaneously terrified and furious and desperate for his approval. It's an uncomfortable feeling.
But this paper! Argh. Let's put it this way: it's supposed to be three to four pages. I'm at the bottom of page four, and I've analyzed 94 lines of 166. Please kill me.

I would bother informing him of your plaguedness, but there's no point. Dana hates explanations and excuses alike, and he won't listen to either. On the up side, as long as you cheerfully and competently complete whatever make-up work he assigns, you will suffer no penalty.

Hooray for Cairo! I'm sad that you'll be so far away, though. All my friends are going to these wacky countries and leaving me alone in the strange land of upstate New York.

[superquail.livejournal.com]

You will always have my approval.

[superquail.livejournal.com]

He really is like that. "Parrot back my lectures to me to affirm my greatness!"

[benefitz.livejournal.com]

I am awake to share your misery. I understand the pain.

How did your recital go? Must tell!

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

Well . . .
Parts of the Buxtehude were quite good. I messed up the hardest part, as I always do under pressure. I am not a very good performer. But the Mendelssohn was really lovely; I don't know if I've ever played it better. We'll pass over Brahms. The Bedard variations are so loud and boomy that no one ever notices my mistakes. This is a Good Thing. I bombed a pedal note rather horribly in the last phrase, but the last chord was fine. I suspect everyone forgot immediately afterwards, so I got lots of applause. In conclusion, it is over. Yeee!

[benefitz.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Congrats.

[love-pirate.livejournal.com]

Uh...I (was) awake. Upstate NY is weird, but I kinda like it. :o)

[superquail.livejournal.com]

Kittenwar.com will be the end of me.

[perdita-dream.livejournal.com]

I pushed your mom's barrow all day.