Oh yeah, for those who were wondering I am still in the land of the living. I have a follow-up appointment with a doctor on Thursday so they can be sure I'm still alive and repeat their assertion that they have no idea what's wrong with me but "it might have been mono." I am feeling better and I took a lighter course load than usual this past quarter so I could catch up on everything from last quarter and in case I didn't wind up feeling any better. So today was my last exam all my papers are finished and I have a few months of sweet, sweet freedom before the next field season in Egypt during which I should:
- work on objects in the OI collection that involve my potential disseratation topic
- study for comps
- learn more colloquial Egyptian Arabic
- organize all my old course notes, articles and other assorted crap
- start planning for the course I might be teaching next year
- learn how to do kite photography (courtesy of MAKE)
Instead the summer is likely to be spent:
- sleeping
- reading anything and everything that has nothing to do with what I actually do for a living
- swearing at the television
- swearing at the dog
- more sleeping
- calling Fenway at work because I'm bored
- going to visit Fenway at work because I'm bored
- trying to explain to the Chicago PD at the Point that I am not in fact a "Homeland Security risk" for taking kite photographs, but going to jail anyway because apparently it's illegal to fly kites in the city limits, even though Mayor Daley sponsors a kid's kite flying schindig every year in Grant Park.
All this should culminate with a mad dash to get all my shit together to spend another 2 months in the desert, an attempt to actually figure out how the hell I'm going to do the kite photography, a frantic photocopying session to get all the sources together for ceramic analysis I'm theoretically supposed to be doing in the field, and a last minute effort at a syllabus that I'll email to interested parties from the airport on my way to London. And I suspect that I'll get by on the 10 word vocabulary and associated hand gestures that got me by in Egypt last year.
If you plan ahead for it, is it still procrastination?
6 comments:
yes...it is...
Susan: Sorry babe, I have to agree even though the idea of planned procrastination is very oxymoronish, it is still feasable. BTW, I understand there is a HUGE Harry Potter book coming out blow out in the Chicago area?
Susan: Haven't heard anything about a blow out...
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Hells yeah, I was gonna try out some kite photography myself... Make rules. Even cooler was the high-altitude balloon photography, which is even more certain to get you locked up for terrorism. Did you know the Russians once mistook a Finnish weather baloon for a Polaris missile and only avoided blowing us all up because Yeltsin was too drunk to pull the trigger? It's true.
Christ Chip, Don't you think i would have slept a little better not knowing that? On a closer reading, I have a question. Did you actually get arrested for flying a kite?
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