New Whoever's-online-now-thread

[Nadir]

Breakfast sounds like a good idea...
But homework first!

[Rosette Daae-de Chagny]

It's dinner for me XD
I love timezones.

[Nadir]

Har.

[Sarah von Krolock]

Lunch does sound good, even if it's a bit early.

[Nerida]

Dinner... except it's only pizza as I'm too lazy to cook.

[Nadir]

Almost time to leave the house and face the day. Urk.
Okay. End of semester projects which will kill me:
2 term papers, one of indeterminate length, another, ten pages plus an oral presentation.
One play, twenty pages.
One portfolio of an undetermined number of edited poems, all drafts included.
One exam in linguistics, in which I have lost interest and no longer know what on earth the professor is on about with her diagrams.

*will die*

[Nerida]

When does semester finish?

[Nadir]

About three weeks from now.

And besides all that there's the usual homework of 7-10 poetry edits per week, 3-4 drama edits per week, and I still owe a film review for one class.

Wait...two weeks, for one of the term papers/oral presentation. Two weeks for that.

[Sebastian]

And I thought I had a lot of homework.
But clearly, you win.

[Nadir]

I had a small breakdown in the car with my mum and we talked it out and my fears have been lessened. And then it morphed into a discussion of how my dad prefers my brother, even though my brother is a lazy dork who's doing nothing with his life. Or at least he treats us very differently. My mum even agrees with me here--because my brother's the only son and actually the only hope of carrying on both the name and bloodline in my family (I have male cousins who are adopted,) and my dad has a lot of my grandfather in him, and my grandfather was...like that. A good man in all appearances, but clearly there is priority given to the eldest son, or the only son, in this case.
Somehow, though, the whole Dad-loves-him-more thing hurts me less than the idea of failure and facing my Dad's disappointment. My general feeling is that, no matter what, if my brother and I led identical lifestyles and failed at the same things, my dad would be more disappointed in him, and expects more of him. I want him to be greatly disappointed in me--I want him to care that much for me and my life.
*shrug*
C'est la vie. C'est famille.

[Demiselle]

*hugs* Poor Bard. Since I have no brothers, I don't think my father cares about stuff like that.
You're going to do great things, you know. You really are. You're talented and smart and incredibly intelligent.

I understand wanting him to care though. *hugs* I hope it gets better.

I'm with you on the homework thing. 2 1/2 weeks before Thanksgiving, and about five weeks before the end of the semester, even though December is mostly just exams. In the meantime, I've got a book analysis due, a minor exegetical paper due (about 10 pages, plus the verses, works cited, and footnotes), and a paper on the Seder Meal we gave last Wednesday. It's not too bad, it's just tiring.

[Sydney]

*Pats* I have that kind of problem in my house...

My little brother is a spoiled, MEffing brat who get's everythign he wants because he's the "man" of the house who'll carry on the family bloodline. Damn...I thought it was an Asian thing...

[Nadir]

Just got handed a sheet with more homework.
I'd forgotten I need a five-minute play excerpt for next week.

But I'd also forgotten about reading break. READING BREAK WILL SAVE ME.

[Sydney]

You need to make a 5-minute play?

[Nadir]

Naw--it's a five-minute excerpt from a longer 1 act play.