Projects on the go

Just finished one of my two remaining major papers before my coursework for the MA Applied Linguistics is done. I hope to finish the second paper today. Then, I'll just have one presentation (which I've already prepped) and a tiny paper (which I haven't) before all is complete. I'm hoping to have all finished by the time of my birthday dinner tomorrow night.

Grades acomin'

We get our comps grades tomorrow. I'll keep you posted.

Comp complete

It's done! What a relief! Now, I can return to focusing on coursework. Have to prepare testing question for the comic book translation Rob and I are doing for my translation methods class. Catching up on my Shiyeyi grammar file for my field methods class. Two big papers, a handful of little papers, a bunch of readings and one final exam to go. Three weeks left before graduation.

One more day to go

Just 24 hours from now, I'll be getting ready to go for the comps. I'll be drinking a cup of tea, possibly making a second cup in a travel cup to take with me. I'll be packing up my "quiet foods" for snacking during the exam; a banana and a Bolthouse protein drink (hazelnut latte flavor).

It's wild how I vacillate between feeling ready and not feeling ready.

Chapel this morning; Rob and I are on the Friday chapel worship team.

Just 24 hours.

Monotastic

Rob feels a little left out with my studying. When he asks how my day went, it's hard to answer without using large technical terms; "Today I learned how to identify synecdoche from among other forms of metonymy!" His response? Make up his own technical terms. Yesterday's term was 'monotastic'. That's when something is largely mundane but also a little but fantastic. I like it. I hope he has a monotastic day today, while my nose remains on the academic grindstone.