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It seems that every week I always complain about one thing or another; I don't mean to do this, but I'm at a point right now where there isn't much to be worked up over right now, and as much as I try to be an optimist, I've always been a habitually glass-half-empty kind of guy. This week was no exception. I haven't been feeling all that great lately -- the stomach/diarrhea/whatever issues are gone, but now I have a bad cough, and at times I thought I had a cold coming on. This can be blamed on the weather becoming cold, a dusty dorm room, not sleeping as much as I'd like, and a couple of other factors, I'm sure. I think it's getting better, but these things usually take time. Plus, I've fallen right back into a rut of procrastinating, being on the computer all day, and avoiding people; as a result, I've fallen behind on a lot of readings and I need to catch up (I'm pretty much caught up on everything else, though). I shouldn't already be feeling burned out, but then again a lot of what we're studying really doesn't interest me at all. It's not as if I feel like I'm not learning anything -- I am, to a certain extent -- but it's just that I've gotten really apathetic over the classes I'm taking for my major, and I'm just not motivated to seek out information on my own and gobble up as much as I can on the topic and the like as much as other people I know (among other reasons, of course). I'm still interested in the subject, of course, and I realize how important it is, but the passion is gone -- or was it ever there in the first place?

The past 48 hours have been pretty good, though -- I got a perfect score on a stats problem set for the first time (and this comes after getting a not-so-good grade on my first exam in that class -- over REALLY STUPID MISTAKES TOO WTF D:), and I got an A- on my IEP midterm, even though I barely finished it. I mean, I'm really happy I got such a good grade on it, but ..... just, what? O_o And the first event of the symposium too, BUT I'm going to be writing about the symposium in separate entries, the first of which I'll write soon after this one is posted. I'm just writing this entry just so that you don't all think the past couple of days has been all hobnobbing and funsies. XD

Because I'm so far behind on readings, I'm going to need to have a "no-fun" weekend where I just buckle down. I'll probably go to anime club and see Synecdoche, New York on Saturday, but as long as I don't go online for long periods of time I think it should work out. Major emphasis on "as long as I don't go online for long periods of time," though. For obvious reasons. 8D

All right, enough wangst. Here's some music:


Midnight Movies - Persimmon Tree

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Symposium post coming up shortly.