Immaculata University: Sarah McClean

This weekend both the Cotillion and the Christmas banquet occur-- YAY! I love the fancypants fun of Cotillion, in the beautiful and elegant Great Hall, and then the Christmas banquet is so nice, sharing the holidays with all of your friends, in a sappy, nostalgic sort of way... And Santa comes and gives out candy canes-- really, who can compete with that?
I'm throwing a baby shower for one of my professors tomorrow and it's going to be an awesome surprise and I'm really excited =D

Well, I guess I'd better get going, I have a five to eight page paper as well as a twenty page paper to write sometime before ummmm tomorrow!!!

Posted by Sarah McClean at 6:56 PM | Permalink

Hooray for Thanksgiving break! Of course I have to use it to write several papers and an annotated bibliography, but hey! I'm not thinking about that until Friday. Mostly because my mother told me I wasn't allowed, since we're having Thanksgiving at our house for some reason this year and she needs all the help she can recruit. I don't mind, I'd much rather just put it out of my head for a bit so I can thoroughly enjoy the preparations, meal, and my family.
There's only a little while left till Christmas break, something like 10 days of school and then exams. This ENTHUSES me GREATLY!!! hahaha

I love Christmas, I can't wait! Julia, Jen, Alice, Sarah, and I watched the movie Elf last night to get in the mood. I giggle out loud at that movie every time: "I love to smile, smiling's my favorite!"

Well, I'm just going to grab a few things to shove in my car so I can jet off for home as soon as my 1:00 to 3:40 class is over. That's the latest class before a night class, and night classes are cancelled today, so of course I'm here as late as can be. This does not make me terribly productive. Hopefully we get out early-- that would be AWESOME.

Posted by Sarah McClean at 11:55 AM | Permalink

It's THAT WEEK again. It comes around every so often, and it's always the same. It usually involves the week of the play: dress rehearsals, tech rehearsals, LATE rehearsals...It also usually encompasses the academic week from hell, when all of those papers that you might have started beforehand but either didn't have the time or the motivation for are suddenly due bright and early the next morning. AFTER the rehearsals until 11 or 12. AFTER classes all day, with smaller homeworks and readings due. It usually also involves registration for the next semester. At least now SOME of the stress is removed from the equation, since I don't have to get up early and sit outside the registrar. This semester, registration is online, plus I register with the seniors because I'm a few credits ahead, so I'm golden.

The play IS going to be phenomenal, after I survive this week. Last night I was having so much fun performing in the dress rehearsal that I was giggling so hard I almost couldn't sing.

Wow, I'm feeling very "bold" today. Also, CAPITAL-ish.

Oh, the end of THAT WEEK-- it inevitably ends in a few quick-fix candy pounds gained, significant dark circles under the eyes, and a depleted immune system. Thankfully, the next thing on the agenda:THANKSGIVING!!!!!!

Posted by Sarah McClean at 3:56 PM | Permalink

Drove home to vote yesterday-- I had forgotten to get an absentee ballot, and I exercise my participation in government as often as possible, especially for big votes. Made some brownies and then came back-- not bad! Family, voting, and brownies that I get to bring back to school. All in all, a very sweet deal.
Play practice was ummm.... interesting last night. The first two hours I wanted to cry, everything was going wrong-- but then, that last hour or so! The energy was amazing, the songs were amazing...!! We've really got something here-- Can't wait till we open next Thursday!!!
All my term papers are starting to be due, and I have to write a lesson plan for a lesson I'm teaching tomorrow--- ahhhhh!! Between class, play practice, other homework, eating, sleeping.... there's just no time during hours normal people are awake. So I'm slightly fatigued and exhausted-- I don't have more than an hour window or so any day before play practice at 7, which doesn't end till ten or eleven, which is when I starting pining for bed and sleep.... but that's just when I need to be awake and alert and functioning to write and read and create. Oh well, this always happens, and we only have 19 more days of school before Christmas break--- Alleluia!!!

Posted by Sarah McClean at 9:09 AM | Permalink