Opportunities and drinking should not be combined
Not that I did much drinking this weekend, but I will say that the servers at my boss' son's bar mitzvah did not, in any way, skimp on the vodka. Also, they had a way of mixing it with cranberry juice that was beyond tasty. That for Smirnoff has much less of a bite than I'd been lead to believe, which is also possible. The kid in question did a great job and I went with the Weasley (which was interesting as the man cannot hold his Jack and Coke, it seems), which made for a unique experience. The Weasley loves the White People dances, and, having been to all of one dance back in high school and having not been to any weddings or other parties that indulged, I had managed to otherwise avoid doing the Electric Slide to this point. Other dances were involved as well, the high point of which was watching my other boss continually mess up the Macarana. I've heard black comedians commenting on how white people go crazy when these songs come on, but I'd never experienced it before. I've got to say that it's all true. We really do go insane for those songs.
(High school pep rallies, not dances, taught me this one. I don't think anyone my age got out of ninth grade without performing it at least five dozen times.)
In sharp contrast, yesterday was spent doing nothing at all. I finally beat that one stupid song keeping me from the final boss in Guitar Hero 3's Hard mode, then promptly had my ass handed back to me again when playing Devil Went Down to Georgia. Pathetic, really. Extremely pathetic. Mostly though, I lounged around feeling completely sans motivation and I woke up today (an hour late) and felt exhausted and currently, despite coffee (which I've actually been semi-avoiding as of late, which is shocking, I know), I still feel like I could put my head down and go to sleep. My brain is all fuzzy too, which was woefully displayed when asked to perform a rather simplistic math function for a customer asking about resource overage charges, and I've got to hope that I wasn't off by a power of ten or two in my response. I've the unfortunate suspicion that I'm getting sick. I've managed to avoid it thus far this year and it's not like I have any time to get sick (I've at least one midterm essay due this week, possibly two, and I skipped class last Thursday so like hell I'm skipping it tomorrow) so any sicknesses that are lingering as just going to have to suck it up and deal with waiting until next week to actually hit. They are denied for the next six days. Denied!
Anyway. Classes for next semester were released today and I took a look at those as well. They all look awesome! There's so many of them that I've wanted to take for years and it figures that they're all offered during my last semester here. Also, it figures that there are literally no classes in Religious Studies (you know, my major) that I want to take. Nothing for Judaism. Nothing for Islam. Nothing even for Hinduism, which would have at least been intriguing. I'm wallowing in despair here, I tell you, but I took a quick look at the classes offered at Emory next semester for their MES program and there are a few there that look quite intriguing and I'm going to see if I can't try for.
They're also making some progress in their Graduate Studies program. They don't have one specifically for MES yet, but they've apparently now an affiliate program through their RelS department. I've got to think hard about that - if I could get into the Emory grad program, I wouldn't need to move next year. I'd really like not moving if I could help it. This would mean a flurry of activity in getting my GRE scores out and finding out application needs and all the rest, but still. Still!
All the courses offered that I'm interested in are Near East courses, too. There's Colloquial Egyptian Arabic (!) and Medieval Islam (!!) and Women, War, and the Middle East (!!!) and a whole range of others that just look fascinating and honestly, why is it that I can only take three more classes? Why, I ask you? It's a sad and pitiful thing, I tell you. Sad and pitiful.
I've got to meet with our department head as well, hopefully this week, to make sure there are no other classes I've got to cover in order to graduate. I'm pretty sure I'm good, but I want no surprises next semester. I'm graduating in Spring 2009 if it kills me. I may need to take another Honors course, but if I do, I won't complain. There's one that's offered on the definition of evil, and come on, how cool is that?
I hope we get to read Faust.
(High school pep rallies, not dances, taught me this one. I don't think anyone my age got out of ninth grade without performing it at least five dozen times.)
In sharp contrast, yesterday was spent doing nothing at all. I finally beat that one stupid song keeping me from the final boss in Guitar Hero 3's Hard mode, then promptly had my ass handed back to me again when playing Devil Went Down to Georgia. Pathetic, really. Extremely pathetic. Mostly though, I lounged around feeling completely sans motivation and I woke up today (an hour late) and felt exhausted and currently, despite coffee (which I've actually been semi-avoiding as of late, which is shocking, I know), I still feel like I could put my head down and go to sleep. My brain is all fuzzy too, which was woefully displayed when asked to perform a rather simplistic math function for a customer asking about resource overage charges, and I've got to hope that I wasn't off by a power of ten or two in my response. I've the unfortunate suspicion that I'm getting sick. I've managed to avoid it thus far this year and it's not like I have any time to get sick (I've at least one midterm essay due this week, possibly two, and I skipped class last Thursday so like hell I'm skipping it tomorrow) so any sicknesses that are lingering as just going to have to suck it up and deal with waiting until next week to actually hit. They are denied for the next six days. Denied!
Anyway. Classes for next semester were released today and I took a look at those as well. They all look awesome! There's so many of them that I've wanted to take for years and it figures that they're all offered during my last semester here. Also, it figures that there are literally no classes in Religious Studies (you know, my major) that I want to take. Nothing for Judaism. Nothing for Islam. Nothing even for Hinduism, which would have at least been intriguing. I'm wallowing in despair here, I tell you, but I took a quick look at the classes offered at Emory next semester for their MES program and there are a few there that look quite intriguing and I'm going to see if I can't try for.
They're also making some progress in their Graduate Studies program. They don't have one specifically for MES yet, but they've apparently now an affiliate program through their RelS department. I've got to think hard about that - if I could get into the Emory grad program, I wouldn't need to move next year. I'd really like not moving if I could help it. This would mean a flurry of activity in getting my GRE scores out and finding out application needs and all the rest, but still. Still!
All the courses offered that I'm interested in are Near East courses, too. There's Colloquial Egyptian Arabic (!) and Medieval Islam (!!) and Women, War, and the Middle East (!!!) and a whole range of others that just look fascinating and honestly, why is it that I can only take three more classes? Why, I ask you? It's a sad and pitiful thing, I tell you. Sad and pitiful.
I've got to meet with our department head as well, hopefully this week, to make sure there are no other classes I've got to cover in order to graduate. I'm pretty sure I'm good, but I want no surprises next semester. I'm graduating in Spring 2009 if it kills me. I may need to take another Honors course, but if I do, I won't complain. There's one that's offered on the definition of evil, and come on, how cool is that?
I hope we get to read Faust.