February 7, 2004

Just an update

Comfort comes swiftly in the form of a hot mug of Horlicks. It's 9.40 p.m. on a Saturday. My unproductivity level has reached heights it has not known before. I forgot to do my whites laundry today. I did not get out of my pyjamas. I did not wash my face. I did not comb my hair (oh wait, I don't comb my hair; I only do so after the every-other-day hairwash). However, I did eat three meals, I did make my bed, and I lay on the futon getting through Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. Adapting my airport experience for the Woolf version of the imitation exercises will be interesting. My professor has already teasingly remarked that in the Woolf version, the narrator won't ever get to the immigration counter, just as the party never reaches the lighthouse in Woolf's novel.

Tomorrow will be sunny. Good. It's church, and then round the corner to the Borders store where I'll get 20% off my purchases by showing my student ID.

Then the week will begin with snow, and more snow. Two more weeks of school before spring break. (What spring, I say.) After that, it's 8 weeks of school, 1 week of exams and then the summer vacation arrives.

Posted by Monoceros at February 7, 2004 9:47 PM
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Vanny! you have company! i don't usually comb my hair either (the wind messes it up anyways and i like it messy!) and i am still in my jammies! but i'll have to get out of them soon...to go do some shopping for the flat.

can we read your essays?! pleeeeeaaaassssseeeee?

Posted by: tiggie at February 8, 2004 11:38 AM

Unproductive the world over! I'm feeling very sluggish today. Will get to study eventually.

Ooh, I'd love to read your imitation of To the Lighthouse. I can only imagine how hard it must be to get Woolf's tone right. Good luck, Mrs. Dalloway.

Posted by: Adrian at February 8, 2004 9:31 PM

i second the horlicks as a comfort food. :)

Posted by: a l at February 8, 2004 10:02 PM

that makes 3 of us who don't comb our hair! :)
It usually falls into place on its own and when i go out i just fuss it around with some wax.

Posted by: joan at February 8, 2004 10:42 PM

make it four. :)

Posted by: me at February 9, 2004 2:15 AM

May: oh dear, my poor experiments with tone aren't really fit for show here. maybe i'll email them to you but you must remember they're only little page exercises. =)

Adrian: hope you're more productive than I am! I managed to have some mild success with imitating Hemingway's and Ford Maddox Ford's tones, but I foresee Woolf will be a challenge. After this is Faulkner! Horrors!

a l: so nice of you to drop by! you're a horlicks fan to eh? i treasure my milo and horlicks here since it's impossible to find in Michigan!

to all non-hair-combers out there: Non-combers United!

Posted by: Van Heng at February 10, 2004 11:51 PM