Finals Status: Defeated
Dec. 12th, 2009 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cherryI have defeated my finals! Huzzah!
I am in no means done for the term (two reports, one presentation, two ethics courses, and a thesis proposal remaining) but exams have been defeated. In retrospect, four grad classes and two jobs was a bad idea. I assumed that because I could handle six classes in undergrad, I could handle four at the grad level. This was unfortunately not based on any empirical evidence.
Other things which have been conquered:
- Karaoke. I have always wanted to get up the courage to embarrass myself in front of drunken strangers, and I had the chance to do so at a birthday last night. It was character-building!
- Some of the Oz books, oh my goodness. I have a deep routed love for the Wizard of Oz series, and have been looking for volumes with the original illustrations since -- well, pretty much since forever -- without any luck. Today, I found some of them at a used book store. YAY.
Things which have defeated me:
- The interwebs. I am ridiculously behind.
- Vidding. I decided to do some vidding as a reward to myself, for not dying. For some reason, my clipping program (MPEG Streamclip) has decided it is unable to the video files on half of my Dexter episodes. I have audio, but this is not terribly useful to me. It is making vidding rather difficult.
- My dishes. And apartment.
- Swimsuit shopping. Mine is disintegrating, what with being decorative and made for the beach/hotel/toe dipping, and not being made to withstand regular recreational/workout swimming. I am avoiding finding a replacement for as long as possible however, as I find swimsuit shopping supremely traumatic. There is a 76.3% chance it will defeat me, however, so I am putting off my inevitable vanquishing.
The most important part of all of this, however, is that I have defeated(ish) my exams. And I finally have some Oz books! There is much, much joy.
I am in no means done for the term (two reports, one presentation, two ethics courses, and a thesis proposal remaining) but exams have been defeated. In retrospect, four grad classes and two jobs was a bad idea. I assumed that because I could handle six classes in undergrad, I could handle four at the grad level. This was unfortunately not based on any empirical evidence.
Other things which have been conquered:
- Karaoke. I have always wanted to get up the courage to embarrass myself in front of drunken strangers, and I had the chance to do so at a birthday last night. It was character-building!
- Some of the Oz books, oh my goodness. I have a deep routed love for the Wizard of Oz series, and have been looking for volumes with the original illustrations since -- well, pretty much since forever -- without any luck. Today, I found some of them at a used book store. YAY.
Things which have defeated me:
- The interwebs. I am ridiculously behind.
- Vidding. I decided to do some vidding as a reward to myself, for not dying. For some reason, my clipping program (MPEG Streamclip) has decided it is unable to the video files on half of my Dexter episodes. I have audio, but this is not terribly useful to me. It is making vidding rather difficult.
- My dishes. And apartment.
- Swimsuit shopping. Mine is disintegrating, what with being decorative and made for the beach/hotel/toe dipping, and not being made to withstand regular recreational/workout swimming. I am avoiding finding a replacement for as long as possible however, as I find swimsuit shopping supremely traumatic. There is a 76.3% chance it will defeat me, however, so I am putting off my inevitable vanquishing.
The most important part of all of this, however, is that I have defeated(ish) my exams. And I finally have some Oz books! There is much, much joy.
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Date: 2009-12-12 11:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-12-12 11:37 pm (UTC)Even without the swimsuit trauma factor, it's a problem with other things. I can't even move up to plus sizes for shirts, because they just make things bigger all over. In fact, they often compound the problem by decreasing the bust/waist ratio. People, I needed a little more breathing room for the girls, not enough extra fabric to make a natty scarf.
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Date: 2009-12-13 12:33 am (UTC)I'm the opposite - I'm a 38-40-B, depending on the cut.
Shirts that are low cut in the front gape open when they fit on my stomach because things aren't cut for that. Basically, if all I was buying for was boobage, I'd be a 16 in the regular section. But I've got large shoulders and everything else is sized for plus sized things. (I basically go 43", 44", 43", which, according to say, Lands End mean I wear a size 16 bust, 22 waist and 16 hips. Yeah.)
(I have quite large boobs. They're just smaller than designers would expect in someone who wears a size 18. *g*)
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Date: 2009-12-13 12:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-12-13 12:51 am (UTC)Honestly, I think this is a time for actually trying things on before buying them.
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Date: 2009-12-13 12:52 am (UTC)BRB having a meltdown over my massive, massive body issues.
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Date: 2009-12-13 12:55 am (UTC)(I thought the conversation was about how sizing charts are MADE OF FAIL because they start with a size 8, 5'9" woman and just scale up and down from that.)
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Date: 2009-12-13 01:23 am (UTC)how sizing charts are MADE OF FAIL because they start with a size 8, 5'9" woman and just scale up and down from that
Don't know about Australia, but the sizing charts here really start to fall apart around 5'8"/5'9", even if one assumes constant proportions sizing up and down. I'm 5'8", so I'm right at the edge, so I'm at the boundary where you have to start switching to tall sizes and various lengths get really wonky.
I get that it's impossible to size to account for build, height, and proportion, but you'd think that there'd be some acknowledgment of variability.
/bitter, neurotically insecure girl