This Is Blatant Self-Idulgence
I don't know what kind of alignment the stars were in yesterday to make it such a clusterfuck, but damn. It wasn't even bad, as such, just one of those messy, stupid days where you have to keep checking to make sure you remembered to put on trousers. Mostly because of some major communications fail between the Japanese Department and my brain that led to me a) signing up for a class that was supposed to be taught in Kyoto, b) switching to a class that was cancelled at the last minute, and c) trying to find a room in the earth sciences building that didn't actually exist. Thanks to some helpful grad students, I did eventually find the room I was looking for, and the class turned out to be really neat and worth all the confused wandering around. Which is good, because I finally tracked down a syllabus for the history class I was going to shop tomorrow, and you know, there is no way I'm committing to a totally unnecessary 10-12 page research paper in my last quarter, no matter how engaging the course material looks. I'm just not putting myself through that again.
So! The point of all this is that at long last I have a finalized schedule for this term.
English 190T: Short Story Salon - Mon 6.15-9.05
Film Studies 156: Art of the Remix - Mon/Wed 2.15-4.05
Japanese General 79: Japanese Ghosts - Tues/Thurs 3.15-4.30
Final tally is 13 units, one writing final for the salon class and two creative projects, along with a couple of presentations. Free time in the afternoon to get chores done, and plenty of evenings that I can work shifts at the call center. No sections, for once, since they are all small seminar classes. So I actually get to keep my free Fridays all quarter! I am already making devious plans. (This is a lie.) (Although Freshman Guy was making noise about gay bars in San Francisco last time I saw him...) Super excited about all my classes right now. I know that will fade in a couple weeks when all the work has sunk in and I'm just trying to stay on top of the reading, but I want to enjoy it as long as it lasts.
At the very least, I have an excuse to start using my J-Pop Studying Playlist again. And how can I feel discouraged about my reading load when I have bouncy boy band pop idols to listen to?
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So! The point of all this is that at long last I have a finalized schedule for this term.
English 190T: Short Story Salon - Mon 6.15-9.05
Film Studies 156: Art of the Remix - Mon/Wed 2.15-4.05
Japanese General 79: Japanese Ghosts - Tues/Thurs 3.15-4.30
Final tally is 13 units, one writing final for the salon class and two creative projects, along with a couple of presentations. Free time in the afternoon to get chores done, and plenty of evenings that I can work shifts at the call center. No sections, for once, since they are all small seminar classes. So I actually get to keep my free Fridays all quarter! I am already making devious plans. (This is a lie.) (Although Freshman Guy was making noise about gay bars in San Francisco last time I saw him...) Super excited about all my classes right now. I know that will fade in a couple weeks when all the work has sunk in and I'm just trying to stay on top of the reading, but I want to enjoy it as long as it lasts.
At the very least, I have an excuse to start using my J-Pop Studying Playlist again. And how can I feel discouraged about my reading load when I have bouncy boy band pop idols to listen to?
This entry was originally posted at http://masterofmidgets.dreamwidth.org/240478.html. You can also comment there using OpenID.