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[cosmolinguist]

Normally Andrew and I are assiduous watchers of The Good Place as soon as we can get to a new espisode. But since I went almost straight from uni to a weekend away, and we were both zonked Sunday night, we didn't get around to it until last thing last night.

I'd finally gotten through reading an article that took me literally about three times longer than it should and I'd been saving this for myself as a treat. I got snacks and everything. And I was delighted with it because when I first came out as agender, mother_bones bought me a little present for it, a pin badge of Janet saying "not a girl." It's been a prized possession since. And so to have that be the pivotal plot point delighted me. I'd texted diffrentcolours when I'd finished my uni work to say I might watch it, and just after it finished he texted me back saying "IT IS SO GOOD. WATCH IT NOW." So I got to caps-squee back at him, and that was fun.

Today I got help with one of these things that had been stressing me out. My lecturer is really understading about the difficulty I'm having and helped me pick a language that she knows has lots of books digitized, and steered me toward the less labor-intensive angle we can choose from: grammar rather than sociolinguistics. I love sociolinguistics the best but I like gramamr too. I honestly probably enjoyed today's lecture about semantic roles and participle ageremet more than most, though it was hard going. That might've just been because I was so damn tired, and Wednesdays are hard, with this two-hour lecture right after a seminar; my brain really starts to flag before the three hours are up.

Having missed my lecture on Monday to get Andrew to his autism assessment, and not having uni on Tuesdays, it wasn't until the seminar this morning that I was reminded it's reading week next week. Even though it's happened just the same the other two years, of course, my American brain apparently still hasn't internalized such an odd (but great!) concept. Relief washed over me: maybe I won't be drowning in work forever, I thought. I have been really stressed about that lately. I have deadlines pretty soon afterward for things I haven't started yet, but at least I'm not getting any more behind for a week, and maybe I don't have to wake up so early (though Gary might have something to say about that; lately he's been doing the most pitiful howls if I'm not awake by 8am!).

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Hooray for being seen in popular culture, and may reading week be full of exactly the right amount of spare time.

[cosmolinguist]

Hooray for being seen in popular culture

Well, kinda. I did come to the conclusion (this'll only make sense to peopel who've seen it) that it shows the importance of correcting misgenderings, told a friend that, and we both liked it. :D

[norfolkian]

Ahh, the Good Place was so good this week!

[cosmolinguist]

I know, it was SO good!

[barakta]

Sounds good. Glad lecturer was helpful in many ways.

Wishing you a catchyuppy reading week where you find some extra spoons.

[ewt]

It's also end-of-BST on Sunday. so you get an hour of sleep back from the government. I don't know if Gary knows about DST, though.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah I'm worried about how early it gets dark after the clocks change. Gotta step up my SAD-fighting regime because I'll end up even more tired than I am now (and today's the first day in about a week that I haven't had an afternoon nap and still slept all night, so I'm already pretty damn tired).