In the land of Vollkorn und Honig
Day: Saturday
What I’m reading that isn’t about linguistics: “Naoko”, a Japanese mystery novel from Jaron that’s pretty good.
New roommates for the weekend: One. SUNY Meg who was evacuated from her room when her new roommate’s boyfriend came to stay.
Number of times I’ve eaten Spätzle with goat cheese in the last week: Three
Number of times the power in our dorm has gone out: Two
Number of times it has stayed out in only the bathroom for more than eight hours due to SOMEBODY leaving the burners in the kitchen on the entire night: One.
Things I don’t understand: Pretty much everything.
Tried to figure out how to post the one an only digital picture of myself looking mad sporty in Austria. To no avail. We had our first practice for La Crosse on Tuesday, and on Wednesday received a speedy email attachment photo of us sweaty and hardcore awesome with our La Crosse sticks. I’m pretty bad at it, but it will probably be fun. Wednesday we were kicked out of the game room in the basement for kicking the soccer ball around and told the roof might be a better option. Hmmmmm….
First week of classes down, and I had a geektastic GREAT time! I love love love my classes. I understand my classes, except for two of them, which I probably won’t end up taking the exams for anyway. Right now I should be in the library for my classes, but they aren’t open on Saturdays or Sundays. And they close at 4pm during the week. Why not? Everything else does. So this week I’ll library myself out. Oh, one other thing: We don’t have books for our classes. We get a resource list. If we’re lucky we get a binder in the institute library filled with articles. No matter what we get, we have to make copies of it. All of it. Something else Jenna doesn’t know how to do? Make copies.
It’s too bad. Since everything shuts down on the weekends, for once it would be the perfect opportunity to head to the library and study up. In fact I really want to head to the library and study up. I’m insanely interested in everything we are covering, and I want to read all the articles we’re supposed to read… for ALL my classes. It’s insanity. And thwarted. I guess I’ll start preparing things ahead of time next week, and start making the copies. I already have four presentations scheduled, three papers, and one very exciting group project. Don’t ask me about exams. I don’t want to talk about them. You can take your final here any time until the first week of the next semester. In the fall that means by the first week of March. Which is what all my rooms were full of when I thought the first week of classes was supposed to start. Tricky tricky. For the spring semester that means the middle of October. Which really means the beginning of November. Yes. November.
Not a bad deal. Actually, I’m still going back and forth on that one.
What I’m reading that isn’t about linguistics: “Naoko”, a Japanese mystery novel from Jaron that’s pretty good.
New roommates for the weekend: One. SUNY Meg who was evacuated from her room when her new roommate’s boyfriend came to stay.
Number of times I’ve eaten Spätzle with goat cheese in the last week: Three
Number of times the power in our dorm has gone out: Two
Number of times it has stayed out in only the bathroom for more than eight hours due to SOMEBODY leaving the burners in the kitchen on the entire night: One.
Things I don’t understand: Pretty much everything.
Tried to figure out how to post the one an only digital picture of myself looking mad sporty in Austria. To no avail. We had our first practice for La Crosse on Tuesday, and on Wednesday received a speedy email attachment photo of us sweaty and hardcore awesome with our La Crosse sticks. I’m pretty bad at it, but it will probably be fun. Wednesday we were kicked out of the game room in the basement for kicking the soccer ball around and told the roof might be a better option. Hmmmmm….
First week of classes down, and I had a geektastic GREAT time! I love love love my classes. I understand my classes, except for two of them, which I probably won’t end up taking the exams for anyway. Right now I should be in the library for my classes, but they aren’t open on Saturdays or Sundays. And they close at 4pm during the week. Why not? Everything else does. So this week I’ll library myself out. Oh, one other thing: We don’t have books for our classes. We get a resource list. If we’re lucky we get a binder in the institute library filled with articles. No matter what we get, we have to make copies of it. All of it. Something else Jenna doesn’t know how to do? Make copies.
It’s too bad. Since everything shuts down on the weekends, for once it would be the perfect opportunity to head to the library and study up. In fact I really want to head to the library and study up. I’m insanely interested in everything we are covering, and I want to read all the articles we’re supposed to read… for ALL my classes. It’s insanity. And thwarted. I guess I’ll start preparing things ahead of time next week, and start making the copies. I already have four presentations scheduled, three papers, and one very exciting group project. Don’t ask me about exams. I don’t want to talk about them. You can take your final here any time until the first week of the next semester. In the fall that means by the first week of March. Which is what all my rooms were full of when I thought the first week of classes was supposed to start. Tricky tricky. For the spring semester that means the middle of October. Which really means the beginning of November. Yes. November.
Not a bad deal. Actually, I’m still going back and forth on that one.
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