Just so you know...

I was working on my essay all week...the one that was due Monday morning. It's not too big a deal, because UA grades on a 20-point scale and they only take off one point for every two days something is late. I swear I liked history beforeI took this class. Something just went horribly wrong with my brain and I couldn't write at all. And I was trying to make the most of my last week in Scotland. I went to Stirling on Wednesday, Glasgow on Friday, and I'm writing this from a timed internet connection that is down to a minute and a half in an Edinburgh hostel. I'm hoping to stop off in St. Andrews tomorrow on the way back to Aberdeen to catch my flight to London, then to San Francisco and then to Portland. I'll be in at PDX at about 9:30/10:00pm on Monday.

I am out of time.

What the eternal punishment are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don't you give somebody else a chance?

Right now I'm just waiting for one of my flatmates to unlock the bathroom so I can brush my teeth and go to the library to do some more research for my essay. I have a paper due Monday, a documents test on Tuesday, and a debate on Thursday. Then I have to write two more papers over break that are due in January (I'll have to e-mail them to my teachers). I've been working on all four of those for a while now, though, which is part of the reason I haven't posted anything. I promise to put up pictures from the last few weekends Monday night after my paper is done. I took my Gaelic final on Tuesday, and I'm pretty sure I did really well on it. My Gaelic teachers told me not to go to any more classes, either, which freed up some time for the library, which was was nice. I'm tentatively planning a trip to Edinburgh and Glasgow sometime next week. I am going away with the Lairig again this weekend to the university's bothy near Lochnagar, which makes it even more important that I get enough done today on this paper, because I don't know if I'll get back in time on Sunday to go to the library before it closes (I really miss the 24-hour UW library). I have lined up my old late-night job at the cafe in the library at UW for when I get back, as well, and I'm being promoted to Student Coordinator; I think it's a quarter raise from what I made last year. I got the audition material for the wind ensemble and orchestra, so I've been working on them a little; a Jean-Jean etude (13) and an Eb excerpt from Till Eulenspiegel. Unfortunately, Osborn hasn't come out with a Jean-Jean etude album so I don't have that to help me this year. The flatmate's out of the shower, now, so I'm going to brush my teeth and hit the books, then hit the hills. I'll try not to end the next post so violently.

Tioraidh

Gaelic Word for the Day: abhainn (pr: ah-vein); tr. river

And in an aside, I found out a few weeks ago that "taigh-beag" is actually the Gaelic word for "toilet," not just a "wee hoose" as in the last Gaelic Word for the Day.