blogging because i feel very accomplished today! making a list really helped to show me how much i needed to rush things i think, because i felt so motivated to do work today. updating the list now! thought of more things that i needed to get done anyway.
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finish 2 more transcribings just 1 left
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finish lek's data analysis
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finish tarn's data analysis
- study for the placement test ):
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open a bank account
- pack
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meet my sister for lunch
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get my brother's birthday present giving him money because i can't find the cd he wants
- meet the pooks for dinner on thursday
- meet the interns for breakfast on friday
- meet wynne, sam and rab for dinner on friday
- meet su kie for lunch on sunday
- get bags for the cameras :D and a screen protector for oly
- get random stuff i need for the trip
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exchange money
data analysis jobs aren't quite done yet but they haven't given me new things to do yet so i'm going to just strike them off first.
i think i will put packing off until at least saturday or sunday.
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"what marks his plays is the way things get so mixed up the characters are trapped. do you see what i mean? lots of different people appear, and they all have their own situations and reasons and excuses, and each one is pursuing his or her own idea of justice or happiness. as a result, nobody can do anything. obviously. i mean, it's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over. and then what do you think happens? simple -- a god appears at the end and starts directing the traffic. 'you go over there, and you come here, and you get together with her, and you just sit still for a while.' like that. he's a kind of fixer, and in the end everything works out perfectly. they call this 'deus ex machina'."
--- watanabe describing euripides in norwegian wood
kind of disappointed with norwegian wood actually, because i was half-expecting it to become an all-time favourite given the rave reviews it had gotten. it's sadly quite flat on the whole when you consider the book in its totality, but where it shines is in little moments i think. like that paragraph i just quoted.
sometimes i feel like we're all just really stuck in the middle of a euripidean tragedy.
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wish the typhoon would just go away, seriously.
music: just a feeling; maroon 5
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tune out the world ; 10:46 PM
