What Do We Do It For?

This has been a long week. And the worst part? Next week will be longer because that's when my papers are actually due. So needless to say, this week has been filled with stress and too much procrastination, but thankfully there's some stuff to look forward to too.
But first - looking back. My week actually got off to a pretty amazing star because I skyped with my mom on Saturday, with Anna on Sunday, and then Erica on Monday. Sometimes, I really truly love the internet. As for class stuff, I tried really hard actually start my papers early instead of, like, the day before they're due, especially since I have three papers due all next week. Surprisingly, I didn't do a horrible job getting ahead. I had hoped I would get more work done, but all things considered, things could be so much worse. I even made my first trip to the ASE library to do secondary research. My first thought is what kind of silly person does secondary research for a lit paper, but they like that kind of thing in our classes here. Still, I was proud of myself for starting that extra work. Naturally, I like to reward my productiveness with TV watching, which kinda is a step backwards, but hey, it's something....right?
In other news, my internship keeps gaining speed. I'm starting to have some specific and concrete things to do during my day in the office. I'm in charge of getting all the stuff together for the show's program, which is kinda intimidating and cool. Then Tuesday I got to go to the White Card Model production meeting (where the set designer presents her first scale model of the set design), which made me feel awfully theatrical. I had the intern-y job of taking minutes, but I actually really enjoyed myself. Then I visited my rehearsal for the week. There's still not lots for me to do at rehearsals at the moment, but I'm such a nerd that I simply enjoy being in a rehearsal setting. What can I say.
One of the highlights of the week, though, has definitely been the general crazy pervading our program the whole week. Each class has a paper due either this week or next week, so everyone has to cram four (of three, for the intern students) papers into two weeks. Needless to say, everyone's overly stressed. So there have been plenty of fun moments where a group of us break out into the giggles for a prolonged period of time. I love the giggles.
My other nerdy highlight of the week has been reading Pride and Prejudice. It's nice when you have to read stuff for class that you really love. I decided that the perfect thing to listen to while reading this Austen novel is the musical I Love You Because (the show's actually inspired by Pride and Prejudice and it's one of my favourite shows that I've been in). The combination of Austen and musicals makes for a good day for me.
So I guess in spite of everything crazy going on, things haven't been all bad. And if I do need to ask myself what I do it for, the easy answer right now is my upcoming travel adventures! Saturday I'm making a day trip to London and then seeing Sondre Lerche and the Mountain Goats in concert (!!!) and then next weekend I'm heading down to Paris to see my friend Angela from school. (Funny Kirsten story - yesterday I went to the train station to buy my tickets to London for these two trips [next weekend I'm then taking the train from London to Paris]. I probably spent about 10 minutes talking to the guy at the counter with all my questions and my concerns that I got the best and cheapest tickets. Only today, I decided that I should head back to Bath after the concert Saturday night instead of crashing at acquaintances' apartments and then heading home Sunday morning. I thought that the ticket I bought would allow to return Saturday night as well as Sunday morning, but I wanted to make sure before it was too late. So I made the quick trip to the train station to find out the answer to my silly question. Naturally, I ended up at the window of the same guy whose time I had eaten up yesterday. Also naturally, I apologized profusely for being a silly American girl.) It's nice to know that after all the stress, I have a pretty awesome reward waiting for me.