Today we literature as much as I can withstand

First half of the week is Emerson and Thoreau

Second half of the week is Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

At least the reading won't be boring, if still intense

There's another essay due and discussion board

And then 2 video lectures

Math...... I'll deal with that tomorrow

I wanna try to get everything done by Thursday again. Especially since Alex is visiting over the weekend and Munchkin might be here as well because thus begins Birthday Month lol

Jenna's is today, already sent her birthday wishes. Munchkin's is Sunday while she's potentially visiting..... and the saga continues! So gotta get all of this done for festivities

Finished a Video lecture, read Emerson. Gonna start Thoreau after dinner.

Emerson took.... time. I knew he would. I had to read through it twice to actually grasp the point he was trying to make

He makes my own ramblings sound cohesive. What a wild dude

Finished Thoreau, I still have the essay to do but I need a break. There's a side reading needed for the essay and I can't brain more of this self-reliance, simple is good nonsense lol

HONESTLY not nonsense but god I feel like both works could have been.....

Ironically

Simplified

Essay done

Tomorrow is math day

Okay math day was not as productive as I wanted. I got 2 out of the 3 assignments done

and a test, I also took a test

The test took hours

The plan for today is do lit until I can't stand it anymore, then the last math assignment, then back to lit

Lit starts off strong with a ...... 45 min video lecture

Bet'cha 10 bucks it could've been 10 min if the prof didn't veer off and around topics

mmm it's gonna be a long dya

day*

HA HA

Ya...... that did not need to be 45 min

I did it, but my brain is mush so now we rest

Did I sleep last night

Who is sleep

It's not helping me right now lol

Still on my to do: Math lecture, math homework. Read Whitman's Leaves of Grass, read Dickinson's ........ idk all of it I guess.

Today was a flop and I'm frustrated

I finished Whitman. Gonna try to finish Dickinson tonight

Which will leave the math lesson and homework plus lit discussion for tomorrow

The issue with the lit discussion is ......... we have to write poetry

I don't care or mind that. It's usually easy to just rhyme things, even though English is awful at it

But we're supposed to do it like Whitman or Dickinson and that's where I'm like......

.........

But I don't do that?

lol oh well. Fake it til you make it

From reading Whitman all I gathered is that he never uses end rhymes, he uses alliteration a lot and he tends to use a lot of symmetry while the starts of each line often repeat the same word multiple times in a single quatrain

I'm probably wrong about something or missing something but .... I am too tired to care c:

well, even if you fuck it up, 50% is better than a 0

I've got like 1 more assignment minimum to do to finish my tech class, 2 if I want to be careful about the like 6 things she hasn't graded yet

Yeah... you aren't wrong

Is it almost the end of your semester?

for my 4 week course, yeah, still 4 more weeks to go for the law course

Well, at least one will be out of the way

It's 4:30am but we have done all the math for the week

I just have the lit discussion left to do but I'm taking tomorrow off and handling it on Friday. I need a break

I am torn between doing the discussion poem with Whitman or Dickinson's style because I understand neither of them. The point of their style, I'd argue, is the individuality of them. So copying is anti-transcendentalist by nature because the whole point of it is individuality

Will my professor indulge my semantics? I mean

It's pretty meta so lol

We're supposed to write the poem and then a 200 word explanation of our thoughts behind the poem

I'll probably toss in the anti-transcendentalism nonsense then, see what happens

I only just managed to finish the discussion board assignment rip

Half of the assignment was to reply to a classmate's poem

LITERALLY 25 people in this class. I was the only one to have posted until today. And even now there are only 4 posts and it's due at midnight

Holiday weekends, man. Nothing is getting done. I hope for all of my classmates' sake the prof extends the deadline

this is why I hate discussion post assignments