Not Much to Say, Really
Latin. This is my summer, for the most part. Every weekday I'm in that room from 9-12, except for the 15-minute break we get at the midpoint of the class. We have a quiz every Wednesday and a test every Friday. It's more enjoyable and less time-consuming now that we've finished all the grammar topics and are just doing translation. But I would really prefer it to be done. I really, really miss waking up later than 8 a.m.
There are other things, it's true. I'm in the middle of the Scott Pilgrim books and enjoying them for the light-hearted fare they are. I'm almost done with the second season of Bones, and I'm beginning to think it's the best-written procedural on TV. Criminal Minds is great, too, but its characters aren't as well-developed as the crew on Bones, and their cases have started to grow a little stale. Also, Angela and Hodgins are now among my favorite TV couples ever (that means they're up there with Marshall and Lily, Chuck and Sarah, Desmond and Penny, and Ned and Chuck). In other media/entertainment news, I'm going to see Inception tomorrow, and I'm super-pumped for it. The reviews have been fantastic, I'm managed not to be spoiled, Chris Nolan is generally a genius, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are all awesome, and it's going to be preceded by S'Wings. Win win win win win. Let's see... I bought a few DVDs last weekend: Life is Beautiful, which is not my favorite Italian film ever but was $4 on sale and I couldn't say no to that; Wanted, which was again not a favorite but was on sale cheap; and No Country for Old Men, which I'd actually been looking to find on sale for quite a while now. I'm pretty sure I'm up to 180 DVDs now (counting individual TV seasons as a single DVD). And I just ordered Seasons Three and Four of Bones from half.com, so those should be arriving shortly. I'm a media junkie. And I'm perfectly okay with that.
Was at the grandparents' last week and will be back next weekend. Looking forward to visiting Cynshen in Boston in August. Maybe house-sitting/PUPPY-SITTING!!!! for my aunt and uncle the week before that. Trying not to think too hard about the fact that class is around the corner. Found out what the Italian department's courses are for the year but have to wait for the official schoolwide system to go up to figure out my full courseload (thus far, though it's one class Monday nights 7-8:50 and one Tuesday afternoon 3:30-5:20, and I'm going to do my damnedest to have a four-day weekend again, so help me, preferably with no pre-noon classes... be still my beating heart). And honestly, not much else going on in the Have. Staying alive, avoiding the heat, hitting the books, basically the same old shit.
Enough though, I'm always exhausted on Friday nights now. Three more weeks before I can return to the way of life I'm actually built for, i.e. sleeping from 3 a.m. to noon. Sweet, sweet summertime bliss, you can't come soon enough.
There are other things, it's true. I'm in the middle of the Scott Pilgrim books and enjoying them for the light-hearted fare they are. I'm almost done with the second season of Bones, and I'm beginning to think it's the best-written procedural on TV. Criminal Minds is great, too, but its characters aren't as well-developed as the crew on Bones, and their cases have started to grow a little stale. Also, Angela and Hodgins are now among my favorite TV couples ever (that means they're up there with Marshall and Lily, Chuck and Sarah, Desmond and Penny, and Ned and Chuck). In other media/entertainment news, I'm going to see Inception tomorrow, and I'm super-pumped for it. The reviews have been fantastic, I'm managed not to be spoiled, Chris Nolan is generally a genius, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are all awesome, and it's going to be preceded by S'Wings. Win win win win win. Let's see... I bought a few DVDs last weekend: Life is Beautiful, which is not my favorite Italian film ever but was $4 on sale and I couldn't say no to that; Wanted, which was again not a favorite but was on sale cheap; and No Country for Old Men, which I'd actually been looking to find on sale for quite a while now. I'm pretty sure I'm up to 180 DVDs now (counting individual TV seasons as a single DVD). And I just ordered Seasons Three and Four of Bones from half.com, so those should be arriving shortly. I'm a media junkie. And I'm perfectly okay with that.
Was at the grandparents' last week and will be back next weekend. Looking forward to visiting Cynshen in Boston in August. Maybe house-sitting/PUPPY-SITTING!!!! for my aunt and uncle the week before that. Trying not to think too hard about the fact that class is around the corner. Found out what the Italian department's courses are for the year but have to wait for the official schoolwide system to go up to figure out my full courseload (thus far, though it's one class Monday nights 7-8:50 and one Tuesday afternoon 3:30-5:20, and I'm going to do my damnedest to have a four-day weekend again, so help me, preferably with no pre-noon classes... be still my beating heart). And honestly, not much else going on in the Have. Staying alive, avoiding the heat, hitting the books, basically the same old shit.
Enough though, I'm always exhausted on Friday nights now. Three more weeks before I can return to the way of life I'm actually built for, i.e. sleeping from 3 a.m. to noon. Sweet, sweet summertime bliss, you can't come soon enough.