Weekend woes

What a terribly long weekend! I spent most of Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday working on an essay for my creative non-fiction class, which still seemed to be a rushed piece when I distributed it in class today. I'm not particularly satisfied with it and everyone will notice, I'm sure, when it's workshopped on Thursday.

I also wrote critiques for two essays - a 10 page piece and a 33 page piece - and an excerpt of a historical novel that's set in Russia in the 1930s. The excerpt was 78 pages, so I'm pretty pooped.

When the clock struck nine this evening, marking the end of the school day, I was exuberant. I've been up since five working on my essay, went to have it copied, attended class, spent two hours reading a novel for my evening class, had a bagel, and then attended the 6-9 fiction workshop. The only respite was a twenty minute nap at seven-thirty this morning. I was flat out underneath my warm blanket.

I ought to mention that my first story was workshopped last Tuesday and it went splendidly. As expected, it was a rather rushed piece (less rushed than today's though), but my peers seemed to really like the story. I have to thank Lin Kiat for reading the story and giving me advice on authenticity for the NS facts and for overall support.

My mother is here for a lovely long visit, the only bright spark of my weekend (oh, I did have a decent haircut by a nice girl called Megan), although she got held up at the airport. Immigration decided to haul her in for further (read: lengthy) questioning. They even questioned me! At last, I got her home on Saturday evening, and she saved my life today by cooking me a great lunch before I rushed to school. Mothers are wonderful; I hope I can be half as good as mine in the future.

Posted by Monoceros at October 7, 2003 10:34 PM