Did you know you could fly

My grocery store closed!! With no warning :-( Now I'm going to have to find another one. Which sucks, since this one was within walking distance -- not that I ever walked to it, that'd be pushing it with my leg, but still, it was close.

In other news, Fionnuala is settling in nicely. She's still mostly camped out under my bed, but she'll come out to hang around my ankles and get petted, and she's ventured out into the hallway a few times. There have been the obligatory hissing matches with various other inhabitants. I think she's now met everybody except Róisín. For right now I'm not really worried. If they're still hissing at each other in a week or two, then I'll worry. But I don't think it'll come to that. She does have a nipping problem -- have to drag out the plant mister and try and train her out of that habit. She's just playing, but it's not good to let her continue that kind of behaviour.

I actually cleaned off my desk at work today. For some reason I'm in a productive mood today, so I might as well take advantage of it.

So I got the cat food, called my grandmother, and put together a stack of mail to go out in the morning.

Went through the insurance stuff, but need to make some calls tomorrow to clarify some things.

Paid some bills. I hate bills. This is all mostly move stuff. Next month I might have a better idea of exactly how much is going to be coming in and out. At the moment, I'm paying connection and installation fees for most of my utilities, as well as some oops insurance doesn't cover this medical stuff.

Looked at the receipt I got from the trucking company. Noticed it doesn't have the amount I paid on it, it's just marked paid. Call them back. Get told that the only thing they can give me that has the amount I paid on it is the registration form they gave me when I picked up the car. Told them that the drop off place *took* my registration form and gave me a copy of the useless receipt instead. Get told that they shouldn't have done that. Now I have to call the drop off place when they open tomorrow and hope they can give me something. I wonder how long before the university won't even accept my receipts anymore. I've been dealing with the trucking company for weeks. First they say they're going to send me what I need. Then they say, sorry, backed up, it's going out today, really. Then I get it and it's not what I need. Now it turns out what I need was taken from me a month ago. Grrr.

Project for this weekend is to get all the paperwork from the move and related things like turning utilities off and on and insurance stuff all organised and filed. Right now it's mostly in two big piles marked "needs to be taken care of" and "been taken care of". Must remedy that. And enter all my receipts into Quicken. I'm determined to actually keep up with that now. It'll be easier with a set income and (hopefully) fewer random large expenses.

Only one hour before I get to go home. I'm ready for my nap.

Things that still need to be done for the move:

• Cancel electric service at current apartment


• Cancel phone service at current apartment


• Cancel internet service at current apartment


• Transfer current lease to Tommy's name


• Request medical records from student health center


• Buy plane tickets to Baltimore for Nick's graduation


• Change address with post office


• Get large cat carrier for Siobhán


• Rent Truck


• Set up internet service at new apartment


• Request MRI record


• Get graduation confirmation sent to LSU


• Take car in for oil change and check-up


• Change address with insurance, credit card, etc.


• Change address with SC Treasurer's office


• Finish packing

Yeah, it's going to be a busy week and a half. Most of these things simply take a phone call or two, but still. Busy.

Today

Return theses
Get articles from Thomas Cooper
Read and annotate 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 articles
Read Mary Cary


Saturday

Revise thesis intro
Read Eliza
Read An Collins
Read Cavendish
Read Trapnel
Read and Annotate 10 articles

Sunday

Read King
Read Eleanor Davies
Read Don Juan Canto 1
Read Don Juan Canto 2
Read and Annotate 7 articles

Monday

Get medical records from Health Center
Read and Annotate book reviews
Shift annotations into date order
Write indexes

Today

Read Childe Harold's Pilgrimage -- Canto 1
Read Childe Harold's Pilgrimage -- Canto 2
Read Childe Harold's Pilgrimage -- Canto 3
Read Childe Harold's Pilgrimage -- Canto 4
Read Jane Cavendish/Elizabeth Brackley
Read Anne Bradstreet
Read Eliza
Read An Collins
Read and annotate 4 3 2 1 articles

Tomorrow

Get medical records from Health Center
Revise thesis intro
Read and annotate 8 articles
Read Mary Cary


Friday

Read Cavendish
Read Trapnel
Read and Annotate 10 articles

Saturday

Read King
Read Eleanor Davies
Read Don Juan
Read and Annotate 7 articles

Today:

Find and read Keats stuff at Thomas Cooper
Write abstract
Find and copy thesis articles at Thomas Cooper
Read and annotate 2 1 articles
Read Elizabeth Middleton
Read Anna Hume

Monday:

Get medical records from Health Center
Tori Amos concert!!

Tuesday:

Read and annotate 5 articles

Today:

Read and annotate 3 2 1 dissertations
Read Introduction to Kissing the Rod
Read Elizabeth Melville
Read Elizabeth Stuart
Read Mary Wroth
Read Rachel Speght


Tomorrow:

Print off electronic dissertations
Browse Keats articles
Decide on a topic
Find and read Keats articles
Read and annotate 4 articles
Read Morpeth
Read Diana Primrose
Read Alice Sutcliffe

Sunday:

Find and read Keats stuff at Thomas Cooper
Write abstract
Find and copy thesis articles at Thomas Cooper
Read Elizabeth Middleton
Read Anna Hume

Monday:

Get medical records from Health Center
Tori Amos concert!!

Tonight:

Read email from this weekend
Read Keats:
Introduction
Ode to Apollo
Ode to Psyche
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode on Indolence
To Autumn


Tomorrow:

Read Eve of St. Agnes
Read Elizabeth I
Type up annotations
Read and annotate 1 dissertation
Browse articles on Keats

Thursday:

Decide on a topic for Romanticism paper
Collect articles for abstract
Read and annotate 2 articles for thesis

Friday:

Get medical records from Health Center
Write abstract
Read and annotate 2 dissertations.

Saturday:

Revise thesis introduction
Read and annotate 3 articles

Tonight:

Update subscription list to the James Dickey Newsletter.
Skim through Carter theses and determine which ones are actually relevant to my thesis.
Relax.

Tomorrow:

Write brief introduction and conclusion to LSU presentation.
See about adding screencaps.
Print out Power Point slides as handouts.
Print out itinerary and ticket information.
Print out copies of Romanticism paper.
Read and annotate 3 articles for thesis.
Drop off JDN disk and binder at Dr. Thesing's office.
Practice presentation.
Pack.

Sunday:

Fly to Baton Rouge.
Read Felicia Hemans for Tuesday.
Read and annotate 2 articles for thesis.
Practice presentation before bed.

Monday:

Interview and Presentation!
Fly back to Columbia.
Read and annotate 1 article for thesis.

Tuesday:

Find two more articles on Mary Tighe and read them.
Write up one paragraph summaries of each of the three articles.
Read 2 classmate's papers.

Wednesday:

Check out GALILEO databases and choose one to do GC&SU presentation on.
Play around with it and start taking notes.

Thursday:

Give Mary Tighe presentation in class.
Read and annotate 5 articles for thesis.

Friday:

Set up Power Point presentation for GC&SU.