quick break - more dreadlines

Just stopping in bc it's been a minute... I've been chipping away at a second post from my dnd campaign retelling but it's been slow going since I'm also writing final papers for my classes. It's been fun though, looking back on games we played almost a year ago.

Classes are winding down, I've still had to go in twice a week but both classes are just on final presentations now so it's been a nice break to not have to read and prepare a bunch of stuff. I get to present today on the data research methods used in 3 language attitude studies carried out in hong kong. Super interesting stuff & it's fun bc one of the papers I picked I only belatedly realized has really bad data reporting so I get to go in and be like THIS IS BAD.

Then 2 of 4 deadlines are out of the way.

First paper is almost done, I'll wrap that up today for sure. Second paper is a mess...

It did make me think about going back to hong kong... I only ever went for about a week, I think I'd like to do something a little bit longer maybe. No structure really, just show up and explore around, take the ferry and stuff. If it's still like it was in 2015 I shouldn't need a visa, a US passport gets you entry for 3 months. Or it did back then. I'm thinking about doing it as a graduation trip. I was in the middle of some big plans to go to HK and China in 2020 and you can safely guess correctly that those plans didn't end up happening.

I want to freakin sew and I want to crochet. I want to paint. I want to play video games!!! and dnd!!!!!
Game awards are tonight & there's a rumor growing that there's gonna be a dishonored 3 announcement.

Gotta get a picture of my cat laying cutely under the christmas tree to share

presentation done 2: elecrtic boogaloo

presentation went well again, no pressure was on so I'm all good with that. Hoping to wrap up my first paper tonight.

One class is done meeting, the other I still have to go in to watch other presentations which is going to test my faith so strongly.

I chatted with some classmates after we finished about what a tough grader the guy is & it's true he really is. We were theorizing that he's just one of those people who never gives out a full 100 bc we're getting 9.9 and 9.8 on participation grades being like, what could possibly have happened to lose 0.1 points on a participation grade.

Had this exchange too:
Classmate A: I spent the first three weeks of class having a crisis bc he's hot
Me: I can see what you mean
C. A: And then I went to his office hours & found out he's a swiftie-
Me: oh, brother
C. A: -and I just couldn't believe it
Me: Oh, you meant that as a positive
Classmates A & B: cracking up
Me: I interpreted that very differently