News from the Front
The choas of my schedule is finally settling down. Not that it was particularly chaotic, but routine is now being established. I'm also relieved that the insanity of Welcome Week has gone away. Don't get me wrong, I love meeting new people, but I'm glad that there's less pressure to do so.
None of my classes are extremely exciting. Is that bad? I'm really enjoying my creative writing class, but for some strange reason, I get the nervous itch in the middle of my palms when I'm in that class. I've got a long way to go in my poetry, and this class will be really good for me.
Botany is entertaining, but I'm majorly falling behind in the readings (aka, haven't done any of them yet) and I'm starting to worry. I know I need to invest much more time into this class than I currently am if I want to get a passable grade. Except right now, all my time is spent on...
English 216, reading really long, pretty dull Wordsworth poetry. It's really too bad that I've resigned myself to hating the Romantic Period. Only one more week til we read Frankenstein - prose is better on my head - and then on to the Victorian era.
Another class that isn't getting proper love is Japanese. I'm doing fine, but I feel seriously unequipped to compose complex sentences without better review of last year's material. We're tackling heavy duty kanji now, too, and there has to be a better way to learn these than rote memorization.
Oh, and chorale is an easy, fun A.
I finally have a bible study time! As much as I went back and forth about leading one, I feel it's going to be really good for me. It will give me more purpose to my week, like I'm actually impacting someone's life directly. Monday nights in Kronshage, baby. And my co-leader is a super-awesome sophomore guy who I went to New Orleans with. I'm getting really excited about it.
In related news, I adore my job. Last weekend was all super quiet shifts, and I ended up doing homework almost the whole time (I'm not complaining). Then yesterday, I got to do some normal library stuff: shelving, picking up books left lying around, but, most importantly, helping patrons find things and getting INVESTED in their tasks. Sure, you serve people in food service (duh), but it's more like, 'here's your food' or 'here's my supervisor.' Now I get to follow through on particular quests, and I LOVE IT!
P.S. I will take any interested parties (i.e. the SFH girls) on a tour of Steenbock's collection of cookbooks. Literally, it's AMAZING. We may have boring stuff like microbiology (microbiology-major-Abi would hurt me), but we have rows and rows of cookbooks. OLD cookbooks, too. They make me happy inside.
None of my classes are extremely exciting. Is that bad? I'm really enjoying my creative writing class, but for some strange reason, I get the nervous itch in the middle of my palms when I'm in that class. I've got a long way to go in my poetry, and this class will be really good for me.
Botany is entertaining, but I'm majorly falling behind in the readings (aka, haven't done any of them yet) and I'm starting to worry. I know I need to invest much more time into this class than I currently am if I want to get a passable grade. Except right now, all my time is spent on...
English 216, reading really long, pretty dull Wordsworth poetry. It's really too bad that I've resigned myself to hating the Romantic Period. Only one more week til we read Frankenstein - prose is better on my head - and then on to the Victorian era.
Another class that isn't getting proper love is Japanese. I'm doing fine, but I feel seriously unequipped to compose complex sentences without better review of last year's material. We're tackling heavy duty kanji now, too, and there has to be a better way to learn these than rote memorization.
Oh, and chorale is an easy, fun A.
I finally have a bible study time! As much as I went back and forth about leading one, I feel it's going to be really good for me. It will give me more purpose to my week, like I'm actually impacting someone's life directly. Monday nights in Kronshage, baby. And my co-leader is a super-awesome sophomore guy who I went to New Orleans with. I'm getting really excited about it.
In related news, I adore my job. Last weekend was all super quiet shifts, and I ended up doing homework almost the whole time (I'm not complaining). Then yesterday, I got to do some normal library stuff: shelving, picking up books left lying around, but, most importantly, helping patrons find things and getting INVESTED in their tasks. Sure, you serve people in food service (duh), but it's more like, 'here's your food' or 'here's my supervisor.' Now I get to follow through on particular quests, and I LOVE IT!
P.S. I will take any interested parties (i.e. the SFH girls) on a tour of Steenbock's collection of cookbooks. Literally, it's AMAZING. We may have boring stuff like microbiology (microbiology-major-Abi would hurt me), but we have rows and rows of cookbooks. OLD cookbooks, too. They make me happy inside.