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First things first: Paper was handed in around 10:30pm on the 25th. Still a little short, but I had an AMAZING sociological epiphany that I included in the paper, and hopefully, that little bit of insight will give me a good mark, if nothing else. :)

The 25th was pretty crazy. I slept from 9:30am until 1:30pm, worked on my paper 'till 5ish. Then our Italian friends came by, whom we'll call Signore and Signora C. I haven't seen these people for years. But we used to live two doors away from them. The Cs have known me my entire life, and my parents are their oldest friends in Canada. I haven't seen them since I started taking Italian, but my mom's informed Signora C that I've been taking Italian and so when she arrived, she hugged me and said "Ahhhh, quella bella ragazza!" and I'm like, "Dude. For once, this woman is talking to me in Italian AND I KNOW WHAT SHE'S SAYING." (She said "Ahhhh, what a beautiful girl!".... Whatever. :)) And so we talked a bit in Italian and she said, in English, in her Italian accent, "You speak-a Italiano like a real Italian, no like-a English person!"

Which totally made me blush.

More people arrived, I worked on my paper some more, we had dinner, it was nice and loud (! Imagine two real Italians, plus three others who speak fluent Italian and me all attempting to converse around a table of 10 people. It was hysterical!) and then I went back to the paper.

I was then informed that Signora C knows both of the Italian teachers I've had, and that the dude who taught me in winter of 2005 is okay, but the woman who taught me both in my first semester and third semester of Italian is fantastic. Which makes me happy. :)

Unfortunately, there was a lot of freezing rain and snow on Sunday night, so I was trapped at my parents' house until Monday afternoon. FORTY-SIX HOURS WITH FAMILY does NOT make me happy. Especially with all the paper stress and sleep deprivation and the lack of ability to connect to their wireless network because some idiot technician from my dad's office set it up and didn't leave them the admin user/pass, which meant I couldn't find out the network key! That was annoying. As such, I was stuck at the office in the most UNCOMFORTABLE CHAIR EVER, and have a bruise on my thigh from the arm of the chair, since I kept trying to pull up my legs and sit cross-legged, which is HOW I TEND TO SIT.

Ahem. Sorry, had to bitch. I'm better now.

Let's see... Loot next, I guess. I got Alias, Season 4 on DVD, which goes nicely with Season 3. I got cash. I got a couple of cool books. I got new bedsheets (flannel!) so I won't freeze this winter. I got a nice silver bracelet with my name on it. $50 at Chapters/Coles/Indigo. Blank CDs. Nothing huge like last year (wireless router & DVD player!), but I think I have actually run out of electronic things that I need. How weird is that?

I may be going up north tomorrow for a couple days so I can skiiiiiiiiiiiii. My parents are there, alas. But my brother and I would drive up together, so at least he'd be there with me.

And on that note, I need to go, since I need to run out for a few things and then come back here and tidy up, because drsnicket is coming over! Yaaaaay!

More later!

EDIT: OH MY GOD, I GOT A B+ IN THAT CLASS! The class with the Paper of Doom! I got a B+! That means I TOTALLY got a B+ on my paper. I AM HAPPY. :D (I can't believe I'm this happy about a B+, but there you have it.)

This is not the first Christmas where I've been up until an insane hour. I do that a lot.

This is the first Christmas where I'm up until an insane hour doing something I don't want to do, and doing it for a decent grade.

That said, a day's break from all this crap was actually really helpful. I've written a whole other page while talking about non-verbal cues between teammates IRL versus the necessary verbal cues between teammates online.

"In this way, though there is an approximation of the offline non-verbal communication, it would appear that within the online world, we find the approximation to be more practical than the behaviour it attempts to approximate."

Go me. I rock.

And hee, only an hour and a half until it's officially "not too early to wake up for CHRISTMAS!"

I may make tea.

Randomly, BNL is like, the perfect background music for me, because I can tune out while doing stuff and not worry about missing anything and then tune back in and be able to pick up on the fact another song is playing later on.

Yeah. Definitely gonna make tea.

My prof has given me until Sunday to expand my paper to the required length.

Sunday. CHRISTMAS. Ah, well. At least it'll all be over by Boxing Day.

I napped while the Habs lost to the Caps (part of me is still bitter about every loss to that godforsaken team). I woke up, had chicken, played on the computer for a while, watched TV and now I'm going to bed for a few hours before waking up to finish Christmas shopping.

Then back to the house to pack up my stuff, and off to the parents' for Christmas. And the rest of my paper. Hopefully, sleeping on some of the ideas and letting it all percolate will allow me to stretch it out another five pages.

Will I be able to concentrate while at my parents' house, with both parents, both grannies, my brother, two dogs and a partride in a pear tree? We'll see.

Bed soon. Will post again before Christmas. :)