How is it April 21st already?
What happened? One moment, I'm trying to figure out my classes and my schedule for this semester and the next, I'm panicking again about the paper I'm supposed to turn in mid May-ish (my supervisor seems to be more of a "well, try not to take much longer, 'kay?" guy than a "I'm going to rip your heart out if you turn this in a minute after your deadline" guy). I kept thinking "It's time for a back to uni post" and suddenly it's been two weeks of uni instead of two days. What the fuck is going on?
In other news, my schedule is so empty this semester that I'm constantly wondering what I did wrong and how many missing classes I will have to cram into my schedule in my last semester (the answer is: probably one because the class they offered for the research module this semester is crap, crap, crappitycrap (no one, no one voluntarily spends a year thinking about political economy, no one)). As it is, I currently have classes in:
because I thought "Two full days for research and papers and presentations and stuff!" but then I realized that yeah, that's more like gonna be work days if I ever get a contract but since it's gonna be ten hours a week max, Wednesday and Friday are probably still gonna be library days. After they were work days. Um. Yay.
Also, I might have found a viable and workable Master thesis topic. I'll have to mull it over for a bit, so that'll get an extra posting. I might also post the paper about lifting the ban on women in combat I talked about here, if anyone wants to read it. Anyone interested?
Anyway, I have done almost zero writing since the end of last semester and what really worries it's because there just was no desire of any kind to get back into writing. I'm starting to miss it but not in a "Damn, I want to but I just have no time for it." way. More like "I kind of should get back into it because it's been so long I actually wanted to write and I miss that feeling." way and I'm kind of afraid that this isn't just a phase but something permanent :( Please tell me it isn't! Tell me you had that, too (actually, I did, a couple years ago...).
Sports wise, I got back into horseback riding proper in November and so far I still haven't regret it. I'm back into lessons, still group but everyone doing their own thing and the coach giving each of us individual advice. Every Saturday morning I get up like "I really need a break from this, I'm gonna say I'll pass up next Saturday." and every Saturday I end up saying "Yep, gonna be here next Saturday." to the coach because I love working with the horses and the way I feel accomplished at the end (it doesn't take much. One full canter around the paddock without getting yelled at by the coach or fucked over from the horse is enough.). I didn't even know how much I missed it until I got back into it \o/
Also, I started yoga but I'm pretty sure I'll never love it enough to be all "Yay, yoga tonight!" and more like "Okay, it's nice to do some stretching and the relaxation phase at the end and everything but that's it." about it. I know a lot of people really love it and I can kind of see why but I realized I need a different kind of sport to blow off steam. I need my judo or fencing (vulgo: something where I can legitemately hurt people and go home with bruises horribly big that I can show around) which is why I'll ring up my fencing club to ask if I can deposit my stuff (it's some really, really heavy stuff in a really, really impractical bag) there so I won't have to ferry it all the way to uni, library or work and back to the club. I think the whole bag thing was why I didn't go back the last time I took part in the practice there and I just need to solve that.
So... how have you been, guys? Anything new? Nothing new? Tell me :)
In other news, my schedule is so empty this semester that I'm constantly wondering what I did wrong and how many missing classes I will have to cram into my schedule in my last semester (the answer is: probably one because the class they offered for the research module this semester is crap, crap, crappitycrap (no one, no one voluntarily spends a year thinking about political economy, no one)). As it is, I currently have classes in:
- deployment sociology (will hold a presentation about "soldier narratives", i.e. books by veterans about their deployments which is like jackpot)
- criminology for non-law students (the professor is hilarious. Kind of like a middle aged kindergarten teacher from Central Germany... "So, who bought their criminal law books? Raise your hands, come on. And now, show them to me, please.")
- "media-based thingy something something of a historical event" (one of the LTCs, a couple hapless future history teachers who still have no idea that they're in for the ride of their lives and the usual suspects from last semester. Plus senior student. Woo fucking hoo.)
- sociology of violence (I seriously have no idea why I took that. It's sociological theory and I hate that kind of thing with the power of a thousand suns. But I guess I'm gonna muddle through anyway.)
- "Did the Cold War happen?" (pretty sure the lecturer is... unique. The entire class is going to be... unique. Gonna have loads of fun with that and I don't even mean that in a sarcastic way.)
because I thought "Two full days for research and papers and presentations and stuff!" but then I realized that yeah, that's more like gonna be work days if I ever get a contract but since it's gonna be ten hours a week max, Wednesday and Friday are probably still gonna be library days. After they were work days. Um. Yay.
Also, I might have found a viable and workable Master thesis topic. I'll have to mull it over for a bit, so that'll get an extra posting. I might also post the paper about lifting the ban on women in combat I talked about here, if anyone wants to read it. Anyone interested?
Anyway, I have done almost zero writing since the end of last semester and what really worries it's because there just was no desire of any kind to get back into writing. I'm starting to miss it but not in a "Damn, I want to but I just have no time for it." way. More like "I kind of should get back into it because it's been so long I actually wanted to write and I miss that feeling." way and I'm kind of afraid that this isn't just a phase but something permanent :( Please tell me it isn't! Tell me you had that, too (actually, I did, a couple years ago...).
Sports wise, I got back into horseback riding proper in November and so far I still haven't regret it. I'm back into lessons, still group but everyone doing their own thing and the coach giving each of us individual advice. Every Saturday morning I get up like "I really need a break from this, I'm gonna say I'll pass up next Saturday." and every Saturday I end up saying "Yep, gonna be here next Saturday." to the coach because I love working with the horses and the way I feel accomplished at the end (it doesn't take much. One full canter around the paddock without getting yelled at by the coach or fucked over from the horse is enough.). I didn't even know how much I missed it until I got back into it \o/
Also, I started yoga but I'm pretty sure I'll never love it enough to be all "Yay, yoga tonight!" and more like "Okay, it's nice to do some stretching and the relaxation phase at the end and everything but that's it." about it. I know a lot of people really love it and I can kind of see why but I realized I need a different kind of sport to blow off steam. I need my judo or fencing (vulgo: something where I can legitemately hurt people and go home with bruises horribly big that I can show around) which is why I'll ring up my fencing club to ask if I can deposit my stuff (it's some really, really heavy stuff in a really, really impractical bag) there so I won't have to ferry it all the way to uni, library or work and back to the club. I think the whole bag thing was why I didn't go back the last time I took part in the practice there and I just need to solve that.
So... how have you been, guys? Anything new? Nothing new? Tell me :)