a miscellaney
Dec. 10th, 2008 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardFirst final (Japanese 101): DONE.
I only have two finals this semester, out of five classes, so...lucky me? My other one is Greek Tyranny and Democracy on Friday, whoohoo. (Well, and I had a concert, which is kind of like a final, but I've been a band kid for nine years and a music person for fourteen: I know concerts.)
Well, to be fair, I kind of count writing Dust as a final, since it, like, sums up everything I have learned about New Orleans AND Ancient Greece. Oh, Dust. I am resisting the urge to switch one of my classes next semester to either War and Power in Ancient Greece (I want to take this class SO MUCH but I don't have time without overloading on credits, since band is one credit and Japanese 102 is four) or, like, economics or polisci or something.
Huh. I never did say what I was taking. WELL THEN.
ENLS 200: Literary Investigations (required for all English majors and minors)
ENLS 361: Intro to Creative Writing (required for the creative writing concentration)
ASTJ 102: Beginning Japanese II
APMS 217: Concert Band
HISE 392: Victorianism (honors)
EENS 204: Natural Disasters
*looks at required textbooks* On the other hand, maybe I don't have to take a polisci class: one of the required books for Victorianism is Principles of Political Economy. Also Culture + Anarchy. What could that possibly be about?
Seriously, what is it with me having classes that require me to read Machiavelli? Not that I have any protest to this, because, hi, Machiavelli, but that's two classes in one year. Please to not be requiring a different edition of The Prince than the TWO I already have -- no, it's the same one I had this semester, so I don't even have to bring my other copy back from home.
Yes. I have a class called Natural Disasters. Apparently it's a lot of work, but hello, it's natural disasters. The only thing that could make me happier would be to have a class called War and Power in Ancient Greece -- OH WAIT.
*cough*
Okay, I am going to go to breakfast, then zone out for a couple of hours, then study for my history final, then zone out some more. Look, I have problems with the whole studying thing, the very fact that I'm actually doing it is shock to the system: I have a philosophical objection to studying.
And then I'm going to resist the urge to write a drive-by crossbowing in Cair Paravel. If only for the fact that they don't have cars, and also, bows are faster, which is why my Calormenes carry both bows and crossbows. Look, I think this shit through, occasionally. The rest of the time I'm all, "YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE COOL? SMUGGLERS. THAT WOULD BE COOL. ALSO DRUGS."
Speaking of which, I have to go look up what it feels like to be roofied. Oh, I know, I could probably just go out on Broadway and go to a frat party and find out for myself, but I just don't think there are all that many frat parties during finals week. On the other hand, this is New Orleans. The only businesses that were open when Gustav hit were the bars on Bourbon Street, and apparently they were doing a brisk business. (I loved that interview. "Yeah, we'll probably switch to water around noon and then we'll help with the clean-up, but hey! Here is the best place to watch the hurricane come to destroy our city! Also to watch the Saints play. AND LSU. Life stops when the game's on! What do you mean, mandatory evacuation?")
I only have two finals this semester, out of five classes, so...lucky me? My other one is Greek Tyranny and Democracy on Friday, whoohoo. (Well, and I had a concert, which is kind of like a final, but I've been a band kid for nine years and a music person for fourteen: I know concerts.)
Well, to be fair, I kind of count writing Dust as a final, since it, like, sums up everything I have learned about New Orleans AND Ancient Greece. Oh, Dust. I am resisting the urge to switch one of my classes next semester to either War and Power in Ancient Greece (I want to take this class SO MUCH but I don't have time without overloading on credits, since band is one credit and Japanese 102 is four) or, like, economics or polisci or something.
Huh. I never did say what I was taking. WELL THEN.
ENLS 200: Literary Investigations (required for all English majors and minors)
ENLS 361: Intro to Creative Writing (required for the creative writing concentration)
ASTJ 102: Beginning Japanese II
APMS 217: Concert Band
HISE 392: Victorianism (honors)
EENS 204: Natural Disasters
*looks at required textbooks* On the other hand, maybe I don't have to take a polisci class: one of the required books for Victorianism is Principles of Political Economy. Also Culture + Anarchy. What could that possibly be about?
Seriously, what is it with me having classes that require me to read Machiavelli? Not that I have any protest to this, because, hi, Machiavelli, but that's two classes in one year. Please to not be requiring a different edition of The Prince than the TWO I already have -- no, it's the same one I had this semester, so I don't even have to bring my other copy back from home.
Yes. I have a class called Natural Disasters. Apparently it's a lot of work, but hello, it's natural disasters. The only thing that could make me happier would be to have a class called War and Power in Ancient Greece -- OH WAIT.
*cough*
Okay, I am going to go to breakfast, then zone out for a couple of hours, then study for my history final, then zone out some more. Look, I have problems with the whole studying thing, the very fact that I'm actually doing it is shock to the system: I have a philosophical objection to studying.
And then I'm going to resist the urge to write a drive-by crossbowing in Cair Paravel. If only for the fact that they don't have cars, and also, bows are faster, which is why my Calormenes carry both bows and crossbows. Look, I think this shit through, occasionally. The rest of the time I'm all, "YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE COOL? SMUGGLERS. THAT WOULD BE COOL. ALSO DRUGS."
Speaking of which, I have to go look up what it feels like to be roofied. Oh, I know, I could probably just go out on Broadway and go to a frat party and find out for myself, but I just don't think there are all that many frat parties during finals week. On the other hand, this is New Orleans. The only businesses that were open when Gustav hit were the bars on Bourbon Street, and apparently they were doing a brisk business. (I loved that interview. "Yeah, we'll probably switch to water around noon and then we'll help with the clean-up, but hey! Here is the best place to watch the hurricane come to destroy our city! Also to watch the Saints play. AND LSU. Life stops when the game's on! What do you mean, mandatory evacuation?")
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Date: 2008-12-10 10:15 pm (UTC)Blargh, political economy, though. I hated political economy.
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Date: 2008-12-10 10:20 pm (UTC)I am sure I would hate political economy too; I am strongly resisting the urge to structure my classes around my world-building. *winces* (Considering that this past semester I structured my world-building around my classes; my Greek Tyranny and Democracy prof has no idea what she's unleashed.)
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Date: 2008-12-11 01:28 am (UTC)...*cough*
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Date: 2008-12-11 05:17 am (UTC)this means on friday, we can celebrate finals finally being over. (i finished all of mine yesterday. four hour final? yeah, not fun.)
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Date: 2008-12-11 06:12 am (UTC)My school also does four hour finals! Well, four hour blocks of time; my one this morning only took an hour and a half.
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Date: 2008-12-11 06:25 am (UTC)ZOMG PEVENSIES!
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Date: 2008-12-11 06:28 am (UTC)I just got done rewatching all the fight scenes in PC. *happy sigh* Mmm, violence and competence and hotness.
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Date: 2008-12-11 06:41 am (UTC)speaking of which, rumor has it that we get to see some of that in dust 7. care to shead some light on the situation?
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