This is horrible, horrible, horrible.

Another 12-hour day.

I woke to test nightmares this morning. My philosophy teacher was asking us questions about the Lord of the Rings, which I knew intimately, but because her questions were so 'creative' I didn't know how to answer and was completely confused. Of course, if I'd studied her take on the LotR I would have gotten it right.

I've been warned, I think.

I'm so busy, I don't have any time to write. I barely have time to do my homework. This morning was humiliating and miserable. I actually turned to the student I was partnering with and said, "Now it's your turn to be tormented."

It's only the third week of classes and I'm barely keeping up. The tutoring is incredibly busy. I was torn like a bone between three students yesterday. Don't get me wrong, I love tutoring. But for some reason the students get attached to me and walk right past other available tutors.*

I've a test tomorrow in Law. I've a test Friday in Japanese. I've a test Monday in Philosophy.

Fuuuuuuuuck. No wonder I'm having test nightmares.

PSA: Any fuckwit who asks me for updates right now, when I desperately want to write and

Can't

(yeah that means you, the person who asked for an update to Reunion), will have their nuts ripped off and redistributed accordingly.

ETA: Normally I love, love, love update requests. They get the blood moving on a story, especially if combined with thoughtful observations about the characters. But right now they're a special kind of torture.


* These are invariably male and spend a lot of time looking at me while I'm checking their homework.

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Intelligent conversation at chez Icarus:

wildernessguru - There's something really crass about a woman farting. Especially an attractive women.
icarusancalion - There's something crass about you farting.
wildernessguru - No, no, it's normal for guys to fart loudly. Or old ladies or (gives example of tough-bitch ex-girlfriend). But an attractive refined woman...
icarusancalion - It's revenge. I will continue to fart until you learn a little respect, and not let'em rip in my presence. *demonstrates fart*
wildernessguru - It's crude.
icarusancalion - Yep.

We needed to be having this conversation at a wine tasting, just to make the moment complete.

Memeage.

Name a CD you own that no one else on your friends list does:

Hmm. I can't think of one. I don't have many CDs.

Name a book you own that no one else on your friends list does:

Ha! How long this list is.

Okay, I'll throw one at ya - Ocean of Definitive Meaning. You have to have permission and pointing out instructions in Mahamudra to be allowed to see it. The teachings were only given by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyatso in Nova Scotia (in a partial form, and not all of the attendees were permitted the text), and in Seattle, 2001.

I'm lucky, lucky, lucky.

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no one else on your friends list does:

Um. Outlaw Jesse Wales. I think no one has that. Early Clint Eastwood.

Name a place that you have visited that no one else on your friends list has:

*g* Bylakuppe, India. A little po-dunk Tibetan refugee community in Southern India. The Indian taxi driver said, "I didn't know this was here."