Is it any wonder?

Writing papers has taken over my life (lol what did I expect from grad school?  I’ll try to keep my whining about it to a minimum for this next week) and it’s making me pretty miserable.  Also making me miserable, my compromised immune system plus stress from finals has given me some sort of hellish head cold.  Because that’s just what I needed, the extra challenge of fighting off being sick while not getting any sleep until June 6th.  Basically my body conspired with my life and decided it was done, time to roll over and die. 

The only thing I’ve found that makes writing my papers even remotely tolerable is playing movie scores on pandora while I write.  Because writing sucks, but when I write with the Indiana Jones or Jurassic Park theme playing in the background, it adds some level of whimsy.  I could be hanging with a young Harrison Ford fighting Nazis and being sexy, but instead I’m writing a paper about rape as a weapon of war in the Bosnian conflict of the early 1990s.  Sigh.  My paper topics are so completely serious, bordering on intensely depressing, the movie scores are the only whimsy for miles around.

If y’all get the chance to do the Color Run, DO IT.  I had such a blast, and most of the color comes off right away (though I’m still colored in places and I scrubbed a bunch).  Just such a wonderful time, and the weather was perfect, and I think I have about 30 more minutes before the fun wears off and finals terror sinks in, so yay!

So instead of filming a thoughtful five minute video journal for class this week, I filmed instead a nine minute rant about my outrage over torture and the complete casual smugness of people like Rumsfeld when approaching the idea of torture.  I didn’t even get in depth about how awful the cover-up aspect of it all was (not to say people like Lyndiee England shouldn’t have been punished, because duh participating in torture should land you in prison, but it’s also pretty crappy that they were scapegoated when it clearly goes waaaaaaay higher up.  Way to purposefully throw your employees under the bus).  I’ve got a lot of feels about the terrible nonsense that went down in that time period.  This is what happens when my courses overlap and I’m one week from finals and in meltdown mode.  Hope my professor enjoys my ranting : /