Diana (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} likeahobbit) wrote,@ 2009-01-13 21:28:00 |
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School! Cold! Exclaimations! And so forth...
Classes started yesterday (well, for ISU, anyway) and from what I've experienced so far this is looking to be an...interesting year.
Mondays: Japanese Culture and Society. This class is one of two three-hour classes that I have this semester (woo.). It apparently does *not* count as one of my 'cultural anthropology' electives though I could not possibly tell you why. The professor for this class was in Brazil so her husband (who I've had as a teacher before) lead the class. We learned some truncated history and then watched THE WEIRDEST FUCKING SHOW I've ever seen. Seriously. I have this problem where if I see somebody acting stupid/awkward/embarrassing then I feel EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE LIKE I WANT TO RUN AWAY. The sitcom we watched was NOTHING BUT forty five minutes of these really, really geeky/nerdy guys being really awkward and nerdy and making sexual comments and then there was a drunk on the train and I kept thinking DO NOT WANT TO WATCH WITH CLASSMATES. Also, the beginning was hysterical and I was trying so hard not to laugh and this guy behind me kept laughing extremely loudly and kicking my chair and it was very, very odd.
ETA: HO'SHIT I FOUND IT.
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Tuesdays and Thursdays: Creative Writing. I had an odd reaction to this class. Half the time I'm excited about it, the other half of the time I'm wondering if I should drop it because it is going to be a ton of work and it is going to force me to share my writing with a large group of people. The short stories I'm not too worried about; its the poetry. I am...not terribly good at the poetry. I always feel like I'm overdoing things and need to write something with a ~message~ instead of the weird nonsense crap I tend to write. Our first exercise was to come up with a List of ten things that poetry is frequently about and ten things that poetry is never about. Which....doesn't work, really. I'm sure you can find a poem about ANYTHING EVER. So I just made up a bunch of gibberish words because clearly one cannot write about things if they *do not exist.* (I am going to fail.)
Also on Tuesdays and Thursdays I have Native American Archeology. All we did today was go over the syllabus, however, so I can't say much about that.
Wednesday: Linguistics. Dr. Adachi (the professor for my Japanese Culture class) is the professor for this class as well. I am a little afraid.
So that's my school week; WHAT IS YOURS, LJ?
Classes started yesterday (well, for ISU, anyway) and from what I've experienced so far this is looking to be an...interesting year.
Mondays: Japanese Culture and Society. This class is one of two three-hour classes that I have this semester (woo.). It apparently does *not* count as one of my 'cultural anthropology' electives though I could not possibly tell you why. The professor for this class was in Brazil so her husband (who I've had as a teacher before) lead the class. We learned some truncated history and then watched THE WEIRDEST FUCKING SHOW I've ever seen. Seriously. I have this problem where if I see somebody acting stupid/awkward/embarrassing then I feel EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE LIKE I WANT TO RUN AWAY. The sitcom we watched was NOTHING BUT forty five minutes of these really, really geeky/nerdy guys being really awkward and nerdy and making sexual comments and then there was a drunk on the train and I kept thinking DO NOT WANT TO WATCH WITH CLASSMATES. Also, the beginning was hysterical and I was trying so hard not to laugh and this guy behind me kept laughing extremely loudly and kicking my chair and it was very, very odd.
ETA: HO'SHIT I FOUND IT.
.
Tuesdays and Thursdays: Creative Writing. I had an odd reaction to this class. Half the time I'm excited about it, the other half of the time I'm wondering if I should drop it because it is going to be a ton of work and it is going to force me to share my writing with a large group of people. The short stories I'm not too worried about; its the poetry. I am...not terribly good at the poetry. I always feel like I'm overdoing things and need to write something with a ~message~ instead of the weird nonsense crap I tend to write. Our first exercise was to come up with a List of ten things that poetry is frequently about and ten things that poetry is never about. Which....doesn't work, really. I'm sure you can find a poem about ANYTHING EVER. So I just made up a bunch of gibberish words because clearly one cannot write about things if they *do not exist.* (I am going to fail.)
Also on Tuesdays and Thursdays I have Native American Archeology. All we did today was go over the syllabus, however, so I can't say much about that.
Wednesday: Linguistics. Dr. Adachi (the professor for my Japanese Culture class) is the professor for this class as well. I am a little afraid.
So that's my school week; WHAT IS YOURS, LJ?
