Jan 06 2009
Girls on Film!
The boyfriend didn’t get to sleep until about six o’clock this morning, so he didn’t officially wake up until about five o’clock this evening. I woke up this morning a little after nine o’clock–and this has been going on since I returned from Ohio. Our schedules are completely out of whack with each other, but it actually works out pretty well. For instance, I got an entire day to work on another blog I call, “The Anime Connoisseur.” The first blog post is a review of the first three episodes of Speed Grapher, and the opening credits of this anime features the song, “Girls on Film” by Duran Duran. You can check out the link to the right of this page under The Soapbox. Anyway, I wish my new blog was a Today.com blog, but I added it to the directory, so that may help it get some exposure. I’m thinking that the use of Project Wonderful ads will help a lot. Apparently, some people make a decent amount of money running ads on their blogs from Project Wonderful–perhaps I can get in on the fun. In addition, Today.com seems to have gained enough faith in Black in College to allow me to apply for a second blog with them. Black in College was approved rather swiftly, so I’m hoping my new idea goes well. Thus far, I’ve managed to make a little over $35 with this blog since its inception in October. Not bad. I just wish the payout was $25, rather than $50.
In other news, the boyfriend’s housing dilemma may be just about solved now. He’s managed to get five people to agree to sign the lease for the labyrinthine house that lies about about a mile away from College Avenue. I guess the boys can rest assured that they won’t be forced to live with icky, sticky girls like me, M, and Rai… Now all I have to do is make sure I have my own apartment situation figured out. If it boils down to living above the bar for another year, I don’t have a problem with that, but I would like the landlord to get back to me some time this century. If I did get to move to the upstairs apartment–even if I had to live with Rai–then I wouldn’t have to go to the boyfriend’s house all the time to get away from all of the hubbub.
Despite all of those stressful elements, what I’m most worried about right now is getting my thesis proposal over with so I can get an A in the first half of Comparative Literature Honors and then just get started writing the thesis itself. This week, the boyfriend and I planned to do nothing but relax, but I might at least get some reading in tomorrow while he’s hanging out with a mutual friend of ours. Due to a variety of planned illegal activities for tonight, I don’t think I’m going to be able to get up early enough to meet with one of my advisers for my prospective individualized major is Soil Science. Thus, after this weekend’s visit with the boyfriend’s parents, I’m going to spend the rest of the remaining week of Winter Recess trying to write at least the first 20 pages of my thesis. That would leave only 25 or so more pages for the remaining semester–difficult, but doable. This past Fall, I watched the boyfriend hammer out a 15 page paper in a night, so with enough fire under my ass, I can write at least 20 pages in a week. I’ll work on getting my library privileges returned, getting my bibliography completed, and then all I’ll have to do is read and write. I may try to dedicate at least 10 hours a day working on it. Not to mention all of the precalculus I have to brush up on before the semester starts. It seems the break may be more stressful than the actual semester… Nah.
