Sep 14, 2010 09:59
i love school!
but of course, this is only the second week of september. wait until halfway through december, when i am tired and whiny and pale and hating everything that takes me away from warmth. when morning means leaving my bed, where i am curled up with socks and slippers and a sweater and 3 blankets beside my space heater. but nevermind that, it's making me cold already, and today is a beautiful day. it is only kind of chilly and instead of cold it is refreshing, i think.
back to my thoughts on school, though. yesterday, i bought seventeen textbooks. i need to buy 3 more, which brings my total to twenty... i don't know if you realize this, but that is a lot of books. it looks like i am lucky to have such a large amount of shelf space to store them all, because my collection is growing very rapidly at this rate. anyways. i am excited to get reading but slightly daunted by just how much reading i have to do. my classes are great though, so far, and my schedule looks something like this:
M, W, F:
9:30 - 10:20: form, genre, and literary value - american gothic & horror.
10:30 - 11:20: chaucer in context.
11:30 - 12:20: shakespearean contexts.
12:30 - 1:20: myth & fairy tale in 18th & 19th C germany.
1:30 - 2:20: 20th C Ccnadian literature - modern something-or-other.
T, T:
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all of my classes are back to back, which is weird, but really awesome in that i get them all done with quickly and at once. and it leaves two days in the week for sleeping, cleaning, and doing homework! which is exactly what i am doing today. i'm still working on cleaning and organizing our house a little bit.. i get very frustrated with it sometimes because it seems like it is never really clean. but it's getting there, slowly. our new roommates are great, heather and tiffany are lots of fun and i am anticipating an awesome year! but i have to stress to myself the importance of working hard and then playing hard. there is a lot that i want to do this year and i need to be sure that it gets done.
there's an old man who i always see walking with his dog in the mornings. he wears a nice old tweed hat, you know the kind, paper boy style. he's got a nice light beige jacket, he always wears pants of the same colour, and to make it even better, it's the same colour as his dog. he is tall and lean, and he always looks really put together, in that way that old people do sometimes. he walks with determined steps but sometimes stops at the corner in front of our house and just looks around, as if he is confused or taking a break or just enjoying the view. i have yet to run into him to say hello or meet his dog, but it makes me happy to see him in the mornings. i like knowing there are people out there who are always there.
and that's about it. lots to ramble about but also lots to do. i will update a bit more often i hope. i am so excited for this year.