Well, it's been one crazy week...
Monday: 22 essays to grade.
Tuesday: 21 essays to grade and a lecture on Bach performance practice to prepare.
Wednesday: Lecture on Russian music in the 19th century and specifically Boris Godunov (in the bag, since it's my area, right? Yeah, more on that later.)
Thursday afternoon: lecture on Bach reception history to prepare.
Oi! Not a spare minute anywhere in there. Happily, Monday and Tuesday nights were spent at my favorite cafe and I was pretty productive. Cafe Kopi, downtown Champaign. I spent pretty much my entire life there for the past two years working on (or procrastinating) my thesis. Yes, practically ever single night, even some afternoons too (especially during the last few weeks of editing), I was there, latte in hand, or some Naked Juice too, and usually a yum-tacular cocoa white-chocolate chip cookie. Mmm. I've said it before, but cafes are just the most perfect places on earth. Lighting, some oddly interesting choice of music by the baristas, little lamps on each table. Whether I'm reading or laptopping, it's always a very comfortable and productive place. WAAAY more productive than my couch or office. Why is that....? Ha! One of my professors would always find me there and inquire whether it was my real office... But yes, I haven't been there very much at all these days. Partly because I've tried to cut down on coffee (and the money spent on coffee), partly because I don't have a thesis to write (which I could never write anywhere else, by the way), I just haven't had much opportunity to head over there. Oh, and I'm one big HUGE home-body lately.
Well, anyway, no more work is to be done this week, and since Thanksgiving break is NEXT week, I have no more work to be done for the next week too! How sweet the sound! I've also been house/cat-sitting for my advisor, so here I am in this big, clean, well-furnished house, doing months of laundry for free... I'm sitting at the breakfast bar with the laptop, in just the right position where I can still see the flat-screen TV in the other room on which Sleepless in Seattle is playing. Why am I not just on the big comfy leather couch with my laptop, you ask? Cuz this is better for my neck and shoulders... And yes of course I have some Honey Vanilla White Chai Tea with splash of milk in hand...!
Meh, I think I'm blogged out for the night. Or at least for now. Latz.
2 comments:
oh sister you're so cute and nerdy. Of course, Im just as nerdy for actually reading your blog. must be at work.... ;)
well i'm glad SOMEone is reading it! =)
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