Long time, no post
So school has been exceptionally busy. Weeks seem to fly by and I always feel like it’s about to be Friday. My history of Islam class has turned out really well, I enjoy it a lot. The others too. But that one I’m enjoying because we read so much. I need to get a proposal together for the historiography assignment but I’m not quite sure if I’m going to be able to write it on the topic I’m interested in. It seems that when scholars have written about Sierra Leone, they’ve not paid the most attention to the Lebanese living there. And most of the good scholarship that does look at that aspect is in french. So I can read it but I can’t really share it and I’m not sure I comprehend french well enough to translate it for quotations and stuff yet. Maybe I should do a more straight-forward topic.
It’s spring break now and then we have basically one month left of class. I have two five-ish page papers due the first week back so I’m not too relaxed, although I do need to take a day or two off. I’m going to El Paso for a conference and I’m sort of dejected that we’ll be gone for so long. I’m driving down there with a group of three other girls and they want to be there for the entire conference and I’m not quite as sold on that idea. I’d rather leave wednesday morning and come back thursday night or so. Maybe friday. I just don’t want to leave at 7 a.m. on Tuesday and not come back until late Friday. I really need all that time to get some work done. It’s stressing me out like whoa just thinking about it.
So, I leave Tuesday, and Kyle leaves Thursday for nationals. Which means as of Tuesday, early, we will be apart for two full weeks for the first time since probably last April? If that. Maybe March. It sucks. But it makes me realize how happy I am that we live together and not far apart now. Long distance relationships are no fun.