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This ten-page paper was due four days ago (it’ll be five in an hour), I only have five pages, and I’m not seeing any way to go further with this. The professor takes off a letter grade for every day late, so I know I’m getting an F. But if I turn it in anyway, maybe it won’t be a complete zero? But, seriously, I don’t know how I can double the length of this paper in any amount of time that would give me any chance. Plus I have another ten-page paper due on Wednesday. I have an A in that class and want to keep it, so Feminist Theory is losing its priority status.

I feel like I should email the professor to let her know that I’m not completely blowing off the assignment, but that I’m throwing in the towel. Should I do that? How would I do that?

I am still nowhere near ready to start writing this paper (though I have a very detailed outline). The professor takes off a letter grade for every day late; it was due on Thursday. Even if I ever finish it and get it in, I have no hope of passing. Add that F to the D I already have in that class (due to forgetting about three assignments), and I fail.

I think I’m getting a D in lit (again, I forgot to do a lot of shit), an A or B in Queer Theory, and idk maybe a C or D in history. And I was mostly okay this semester. I wasn’t distracted or depressed. I just forgot to do a lot of important shit.

I guess I should have gone to Learning Services to help me get organized, but that didn’t work the first time. It was just more pieces of paper to forget about. I could try it again, but I have no idea how it will help me.

If my GPA stays below a 2.0, I’ll lose my financial aid eligibility. That’s probably going to happen maybe (I honestly have no idea how clear my perspective is on this, apart from the F in Feminist Theory of which I am certain), so I’ll do summer classes and hope that fixes things in time for fall. Otherwise, I have wasted so much time, ugh.

Is it better to organize your politics around identity or your “relation to power”? Feminism, for example:

• who does feminism represent? women?
• but how do you define women? who counts? who gets to decide who counts?
• if women are people who face oppression by men, that’s way too broad because men can and do oppress other men, and being defined by your oppression isn’t very empowering
• when does intersectionality come into play? which identity comes to the forefront at which times?
• can you be all things (politically speaking) at all times and successfully organize that way?

Basically, saying “this group is for women” can be too broad to do any good and too many people’s needs can get ignored (women’s rights! but lesbians you’re being distracting and your unpopularity is bringing us down. GLBT rights! but wait your turn trans ppl, we can only focus on so many issues at a time), but there is strength in numbers.

Is it worth the trade off? Is fighting the general powers that be too wide a shot to be effective? Do we go by the ideal and consider all aspects of a person, or do we trim the edges a bit to streamline the progress process?

(Input is quite welcome.)

I don’t know how much of its obtuseness is due to translation and how much is just regular confusing. And this is only the first reading in Queer Theory. We’re starting off easy.

hello-ampersand:wellfourthingsandalizard:

Writing an essay

Finishing the essay

Turning the essay in

I was just dying during this sketch, because DanRad, what are your legs doing? Also because this is great.

(Source: nicolascagesempai, via obsessionfull)

But I missed my Wednesday and Friday classes; I may have skipped some on Monday, but I can’t remember; my English class gives participation points based on punctuality and I could probably count on one hand how many times I’ve been on time for that class; I forgot to do two discussion posts for English; I still haven’t done the annotated bibliography that was due on Friday; I had some bizarre, random anxiety attack that morning, so I just circled the hall trying not to cry for 45 minutes — still not sure what that was about; missed most, if not all, of Spanish class this week and maybe last week (not sure); haven’t done a single assignment for my history class (the one that I just started regularly attending). So that’s gonna work out well.

But I think I have an A in LGBTQ Studies.

This has not happened for ages. But I can’t resist titles like “I Was Raising a Homosexual Child” and “If Freud Had Been a Neurotic Colored Woman”.

Why can’t they disperse this money? I need my textbooks! I need my parking pass! And a planner and a calendar and new binders and dry erase markers.

I have that what am I doing here this is not working for me feeling already.