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I had said I was going to wait until tomorrow morning to discuss today's Chinatown visit, but I decided that I can mention it tonight and then beautify it tomorrow if inclined.

If inclined.

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Now that I have my visa and everything, I can continue on my voyage to the central nation! Next I need to get my current health approved by a physician. The appointment is Monday now since I slept through the Tuesday appointment and was buried in Finals last week anyway. Then I need to email the University overseer that everything is going to plan. Not yet, though, since I am going to bed and must write a more acceptable version of my WRT200 final paper to submit on Monday. x_x Um. The semester is supposed to be over, isn't it?

Greetings, ЖЖ друзья! (I just verified via Yandex search the backwards E is indeed a Russian zeta, not any version of epsilon or eta or the mathematical "for all" symbol. *paranoia quell*)

I actually should talk about that matter first - the people of the Lunch Box food truck voiced to me suspicion I seem very much like a Russian spy about to embark on my travels abroad. They assured me they were joking, but were they really?
I am suspicious since I worry I still have vestiges of a Russian accent from dealing with those people a lot in my undergraduate study. I don't anticipate it vanishing next/last semester since I plan to study a last bit of political science with Dr Polsky; dealing with him increases my own speaking like that.

The imperious necessity I felt when reading that part of the book I am trying to finish before going to China (but most likely won't) was to post thought on the Internet. (120 more pages!)

Today is the last day of Finals.
My final grade is not quite settled for WRT200 unless I'm satisfied with some dismal grading - the professor has offered to me submitting a rewrite of my final paper by Monday at noon. Since this weekend I only have planned getting my Chinese travel paperwork sorted out with Shirley Wan and the people who work with her, finishing up the rest of my Chinese tea before I vanish in 10 days, and reading as far as I can make in 5WiaB by the same point, I agreed to work on that, too. I've gone so far in my studies - Greek pwnage, sociologist dealings, journalism flourishes, oboe beauty...
(I haven't had the chance to check on how my Latin professor is doing yet! D: But last I heard from my Greek professor, he is stable. AAAHHH QUADRUPLE BYPASS WHAA?)

Or, um, I don't consider that very much. Maybe the travel paperwork may prove problematic, or there'll be a myriad of unfathomable vocabulary words chaining me to the dictionary and making the read even slower, or something like that, but I stopped the grocery store stuff the week before Finals week, and concluded studies in the majority of the subjects I'd been working on this term...

I have two more Finals. Just two different Finals than I had last go round.

See, one professor was sated, and the other was not.

The End.

Tomorrow is my completion of the Modern Chinese History Final. I made it as mindless as possible, but it's still going to be rather a lot. But at the end of it, that will be a huge burden off the mental burner! The day after is supposedly my Newswriting Final, instead of today, because I was concentrating on too much to get the paperwork all the right places at all the right times.

Oboe Jury came back positive. Greek and Latin are done for the term, with much concern over my Latin professor's health [quadruple bypass surgery sounds somewhat unpleasant]. WRT200 I gave one of the bassists (the one who sat next to me) my portfolio to give to the professor, since I needed to talk with my Chinese History professor at the time my WRT200 professor finally arrived to conduct business. She was a little late, panting and coughing from the physical exertion of bicycle travel from wherever she lives. She apologised to me extremely for the inconvenience. I told her it gave me a chance to collect thought and enjoy the photos next to her office door.
The pictures next to her office door depicted Japanese inventions to make life easier - the one that sticks most in my mind is the face mask with a hole in it for eating (or smoking, Dr Chien told me, counterintuitively enough). There was also a helmet with a suction cup on the back so one could sleep on the train when travelling - it had affixed on top instructions to please awaken the wearer at the proper stop.

Tomorrow morning I will come, I will see, and I will conquer that Chinese gobbledegook. (Venibo, vidibo, vicibo? The future first person singular of the last two is most suspect. Dr Chien told me at the end of the term I referred to volandum too much, but he honestly influenced my taste in heated beverages, and most of my interest in the Middle Nation! ??? Oh well. Also, I speak too much of Latin and Greek in general for her taste.
Then the day after is the JRN225 Final at long last, supposing I connect with the professor before then.
ETA: I have indeed connected - he had emailed the proctor with the exam. Okay. Then I'm submitting with it pieces of my Newswriting portfolio.

Saturday I am getting my visa and passport sorted at the Chinese travel agency in Philly's Chinatown, Monday I have a doctor's appointment during which I will have the physician sign the health waiver for travel abroad, which I will then email to the international study abroad coordinator.

Tuesday is my birthday! ♥ The person who interfered with my Chinese History study most is phoning. (I use the word interfere but I mean really to just use the whole ferre verb - implying made it happen to begin with?)

In Order of Test/Exam/Due Date

Oboe Jury
GRE202 Final
LAT405 Final
WRT200 Portfolio Completion
JRN225 Portfolio Completion & JRN225 Final
SOC240 Autobiography Invention
HIS305 Final

As you may observe, I am halfway through, with only the more worrying subjects incomplete, to be completely honest. The Sociology of the Family Autobiography was almost the most mindless.
The most mindless was the LAT405 Final, which I'm embarrassed to discuss. May my [and Magistra Daywalt's] professor's health improve over the summer!

My Greek professor, whom I regard as the most reliable source, informed me my Latin professor Dr Rosso went through coronary bypass surgery this morning, verifying the story of my classmates who gibbered about having one less Final to worry about.

This morning, I finalised my WRT200 portfolio and my JRN225 portfolio as best I had. (The former professor suggested printing fresh copies of papers we didn't have since he was grading them all, but I made one copy for most of them away from this particular computer, so I cannot. I typed up an overview of my work for that class. If he fails me since I don't have copies of everything, well, sue me.) Now I am in the middle of processing my HIS305 notes. The lattermost course exam I mention is today for most of my classmates, but my own exam in Chinese history has been postponed until Thursday for whatever reason. I am frustrated with how much that professor crams into one test, so I have surfaced temporarily to complain. This is far too much!

SOC: Didn't you sign up for all 19 of those credits, Claire?

I guess so, Socrates. Just... *whimper* It's too much... I could have dropped something up until spring break, but I did not, out of eagerness to learn everything.

I am going to the Library this evening to return my Library books, which actually were due yesterday, but I didn't tell anyone.
I'll pay them back. I'll try.

While my visa is getting processed or w/e at the Asia Travels agency, I have a Jury then Finals Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Shirley Wan told me my passport and visa would be ready tomorrow, but my father heard next Saturday. I can phone tomorrow to check, which I'd do before getting on the bus and the train to visit in person, anyway, as I don't have $10 in cash at the moment for round-trip fare. I have $4 in cash and most likely around 187 cents in change, besides maybe 7 SEPTA tokens.

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I'm glad to have trained myself to appreciate oolong tea!
It was the only kind offered at the Chinese restaurant yesterday. On my own, I can't stand oolong tea, for it tastes foreign and like my stomach shouldn't be able to handle it.
Over the past several months, I trained myself to appreciate it, as I thought it MIGHT be the only option available soon.
And so I was correct.
Honestly speaking though, I prefer jasmine, Earl Grey, and Snow Geisha (Teavana) teas...

ETA: The posted entry screen is different now! :O

Today, my Latin classmate told me that our professor had so much artery trouble he had to go to the hospital today, so he cancelled our Final.
I won't believe it until I have verification from a reliable source. My peers generally don't want to be there.

I am very suspicious, since Latin is a complex subject which ought not to be abandoned in the face of health, and the parvus passer is not the most reliable bearer of news. (Latin doesn't have "the" :( unlike Greek, in which "the" is declined masc., fem., & neut. - ὀ, ἠ, & το - these are just the linguistic thoughts I have whilst composing thought)
(Little birdie, I mean. It took me a long time to notice I didn't reveal what parvus passer meant! I had been suspicious passer were masculine, so I dictionaried it.)

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Dr Chien wants me to study in her other East Asian culture class.
I checked and couldn't find it in the catalogue, but I am also exhausted from a busy final class week. Hmm, I could ask! *sends inquisitive email*

The downside of cramming so many writing emphasis courses into now is horribly apparent to me.

I hope that 2007 still counts as recent!

This is taking longer than estimated, but wasn't that always the case?

I'm hiding now, because I find noise distracting, and I still can hear the television blaring on and on and on. My cup of hot water can come with me.

Today was a bad day academically for me, even if I did sign up for my oboe jury at 9:54 on Tuesday (after which I need to take my Greek Final).

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What was I going to say with this paper... *blinks at it, distracted by violin lessoning behind her* Okay, I need to compose three explanatory notes for this medical form because I checked yes for a number of the health concerns.

Paper first.