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1. Research precedes posts of more significance and interest. However, speaking of significance: Read this if you haven't heard about the Avatar movie casting, though, and here, about what you can do.
2. Chinese is - I am almost baffled entirely, right now, by its awesomeness. I kept telling people at the beginning of the semester that I loved it, that it was unlike anything I'd ever done before. The former, still true. The middle, well, I've now experienced the soul-crushing of my Chinese professor and the class' (and Mandarin the language itself's...srry, but srsly) partial takeover of my life, and I'm sure it's still, in its intangible state, trying to eat my soul. But the latter - it's part of why the former is still true, and it's so... it's just amazing. Things like this and this and...yes.
3. Related to which - a) I chose right, which is pleasing to know, although it doesn't make not-having-chosen all the other things I wish I could have so badly any easier, but that's life, and b) so I think I am going to be an Asian Languages & Cultures and Linguistics double major. I think. I still want both bioanthro and philosophy (of the long list that's not impossible yet), but I'll see what happens. It was a bit like an epiphany (I'm crashing from the high somewhat as we...as I type, but hey); it was strange!
4. I am procrastinating studying like a madwoman. [extremely procrastinatory linguistics dork](Correct for poss. parsing error: Like a madwoman, I am procrastinating, and what I am procrastinating is studying for my linguistics final. That was...I can't tell you what that was properly with the proper vocab or anything - well, not while being sure that I am correct. See how much I need to study?) [/extremely procrastinatory linguistics dork] It's not that hard - look up shiz, fill in stuff, remember it... it was just too easy to make me wholly terrified, and there are so many fascinating things that are...not studying.
5. Like. Research, like reading essays, like reading all the books I have stacked beside me and around my room; elanid lent me a book on India today (<3!) I want to be reading now, and I have so many others and...plots to fulfill, and stuff due imminently that isn't precisely class but STILL DUE DAMMIT and still important, and also I have not started my Yuletide. I know. D: Six days. I wrote it at the very last minute last year, basically (I guess I can admit that now)...none of the other things I want to say about this year's I can really properly say without breaking the promise not to reveal anything. I realize that I probably ought to have defaulted before the 7th, but...we'll see how this goes (dear requester whom I have got, if you see this once you know who I am: it's not about you or your request, it's about me! And my ridiculous problems with my life :P).
6. Basically I don't want to study, which is not exactly a shock or anything. It's just there are so many wonderfully fascinating things and I have so much to catch up on because... I know what I love (so many things; it isn't - specific, not really!) but a lot of what it turns out I love best is not - it is from when I was a small kid and it isn't. Not like... So yeah. I have catching up to do - there's always catching up to do. All of this feels impossible; it would still be if I did nothing else but read for my entire life.
7. And I do have scheduling shit to worry about, but anyway. :) Okay, plans! Okay, that was a lie. Revisions are hard, and so is writing. /shocking
2. Chinese is - I am almost baffled entirely, right now, by its awesomeness. I kept telling people at the beginning of the semester that I loved it, that it was unlike anything I'd ever done before. The former, still true. The middle, well, I've now experienced the soul-crushing of my Chinese professor and the class' (and Mandarin the language itself's...srry, but srsly) partial takeover of my life, and I'm sure it's still, in its intangible state, trying to eat my soul. But the latter - it's part of why the former is still true, and it's so... it's just amazing. Things like this and this and...yes.
3. Related to which - a) I chose right, which is pleasing to know, although it doesn't make not-having-chosen all the other things I wish I could have so badly any easier, but that's life, and b) so I think I am going to be an Asian Languages & Cultures and Linguistics double major. I think. I still want both bioanthro and philosophy (of the long list that's not impossible yet), but I'll see what happens. It was a bit like an epiphany (I'm crashing from the high somewhat as we...as I type, but hey); it was strange!
4. I am procrastinating studying like a madwoman. [extremely procrastinatory linguistics dork](Correct for poss. parsing error: Like a madwoman, I am procrastinating, and what I am procrastinating is studying for my linguistics final. That was...I can't tell you what that was properly with the proper vocab or anything - well, not while being sure that I am correct. See how much I need to study?) [/extremely procrastinatory linguistics dork] It's not that hard - look up shiz, fill in stuff, remember it... it was just too easy to make me wholly terrified, and there are so many fascinating things that are...not studying.
5. Like. Research, like reading essays, like reading all the books I have stacked beside me and around my room; elanid lent me a book on India today (<3!) I want to be reading now, and I have so many others and...plots to fulfill, and stuff due imminently that isn't precisely class but STILL DUE DAMMIT and still important, and also I have not started my Yuletide. I know. D: Six days. I wrote it at the very last minute last year, basically (I guess I can admit that now)...none of the other things I want to say about this year's I can really properly say without breaking the promise not to reveal anything. I realize that I probably ought to have defaulted before the 7th, but...we'll see how this goes (dear requester whom I have got, if you see this once you know who I am: it's not about you or your request, it's about me! And my ridiculous problems with my life :P).
6. Basically I don't want to study, which is not exactly a shock or anything. It's just there are so many wonderfully fascinating things and I have so much to catch up on because... I know what I love (so many things; it isn't - specific, not really!) but a lot of what it turns out I love best is not - it is from when I was a small kid and it isn't. Not like... So yeah. I have catching up to do - there's always catching up to do. All of this feels impossible; it would still be if I did nothing else but read for my entire life.
7. And I do have scheduling shit to worry about, but anyway. :) Okay, plans! Okay, that was a lie. Revisions are hard, and so is writing. /shocking