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Nov. 10th, 2004 01:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tammaiyaIt is one am. I have 1400 words, out of 2000, of pure unadulterated unfootnoted crap that is due on Thursday, only I won't have any time on Thursday to do anything more than footnote it. If I'm lucky. God I'm tired. God I hate history right now. God I hate me for being so easily distracted by shiny things.
I have school tomorrow. *whimper*
In other news I've changed my mind about whether I want to do Law again. I don't know now. Now I'm wondering if I could get away with just doing Asian Studies. I always say "I don't know" when people ask me what I want to do after University, but actually that's a lie. I do know- I want to be a translator or a writer or maybe both. Neither of these are very viable, though. Then again translator is slightly more viable than writer so what the hell. Stop trying to be logical at me, parents. I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR SENSIBLE THINGS ABOUT LACK OF JOB AVAILABILITY AND LACK OF PAY.
I've got good reasons for wanting to be either of those two things too. It's not just that I like them- when you have an attention span as short as mine (it really can be summed up by 'ooh shiny'- the only way I ever get my assignments done is by surfing the internet and playing video games and writing and doing 5000 different things while flicking between them) if you find something you can sit down and do for hours it has to mean something. Writing and translating are things I actually feel like I could spend my life doing, unlike any 'real' jobs that I'm scared to imagine myself trapped in.
This is the first time I've said this stuff seriously in all the years I've been thinking it. I guess it's because graduation is so close that I really have to think about it for once.
Why do I have to have such impractical, specific and obscure job interests?
And why I am rambling about this at one in the morning when I should be writing my essay?
ETA: 2.10 AM. Am beyond tired into almost awake, though it's not really helpful as the brain still does not function. 1800 words long. Really bad. But it is only a draft (I hope) and it is finished, for all that's worth, so hooray. Or something.
... wait, oral references. Fuck.
I have school tomorrow. *whimper*
In other news I've changed my mind about whether I want to do Law again. I don't know now. Now I'm wondering if I could get away with just doing Asian Studies. I always say "I don't know" when people ask me what I want to do after University, but actually that's a lie. I do know- I want to be a translator or a writer or maybe both. Neither of these are very viable, though. Then again translator is slightly more viable than writer so what the hell. Stop trying to be logical at me, parents. I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR SENSIBLE THINGS ABOUT LACK OF JOB AVAILABILITY AND LACK OF PAY.
I've got good reasons for wanting to be either of those two things too. It's not just that I like them- when you have an attention span as short as mine (it really can be summed up by 'ooh shiny'- the only way I ever get my assignments done is by surfing the internet and playing video games and writing and doing 5000 different things while flicking between them) if you find something you can sit down and do for hours it has to mean something. Writing and translating are things I actually feel like I could spend my life doing, unlike any 'real' jobs that I'm scared to imagine myself trapped in.
This is the first time I've said this stuff seriously in all the years I've been thinking it. I guess it's because graduation is so close that I really have to think about it for once.
Why do I have to have such impractical, specific and obscure job interests?
And why I am rambling about this at one in the morning when I should be writing my essay?
ETA: 2.10 AM. Am beyond tired into almost awake, though it's not really helpful as the brain still does not function. 1800 words long. Really bad. But it is only a draft (I hope) and it is finished, for all that's worth, so hooray. Or something.
... wait, oral references. Fuck.
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Date: 2004-11-09 06:16 am (UTC)Oh, and memo.
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Date: 2004-11-09 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-11-10 03:44 am (UTC)Good luck with it.....I hope you didnt lose too many marks either!
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Date: 2004-11-09 11:15 pm (UTC)GOOD LUCK SHIVVY!!!!! *places hand on Shivvy's head and shares History essay skills*
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Date: 2004-11-09 11:20 pm (UTC)no subject
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