flooooowerrrrr.
Smeg's got hyacinths, daffodils, tulips and narcissus coming up! Also, leeks. They're cute and happy little plants.
Last night was the Yiyun Li reading. I really admire her. She's a great writer. Hers is the only book I bought for class that I'm definitely keeping - I had her sign it and shook her hand and told her that I thought of her as the Chinese Salman Rushdie. She said she admires him a lot (Smeg: "It'd have sucked if she'd been like, DAMN, I HATE that guy!"), so I'm glad I said it. I highly recommend her short story collection, if you're in the market for a book to read.
I've got to write both a response paper on her reading (which will, unlike my other scathing reviews, be glowing - so glowing I'm not sure what I'm going to write, but I'll call it A Thousand Years Of Good Writings) as well as a critical essay about SOME ASPECT of her writing in comparison to Salman Rushdie's. I've been rereading his short story collection, East, West, in case I use it as a source. I know his novels pretty well.
My computer's been freezing and being weird lately. I ran a virus scan, but nothing showed up. I'm not doing anything differently, so I really don't know what it is, although it MIGHT be Windows Media Player.
So I had my advisement this morning. It turns out my counselor for the rest of my degree's courses will be Art, a.k.a. the man I call 'shitty old man poet.' Oh, snap, says the world, laughing at me. Mom groaned and said maybe he won't be so bad, and yeah, I doubt he's an offensive person since I met him before a few years ago, but he ALSO teaches a lot of the poetry classes and dammit! I don't want to write your brand of poetry! I'm going to be fighting my writing teachers all the way through this degree, I can feel it in my pinky fingers. >\ I did turn in a GOOD poem, Underwater, to Todd yesterday, to prove I'm not just taking the piss. And we have to submit something to the class anthology and I'd rather not be remembered as the sardonic bitch who... took the piss.
ANYWAY, advisement. Katie (the transfer advisor/head of something important regarding fine arts) was really helpful and said I was very prepared (tee hee, it's like 3rd grade again!) and that I'm doing uber-well getting my general requirements done, which was my plan, because damned if I'm going to take classes I don't want/need.
In that same vein, I not only get to have math waived because of my perceived Proficiency, I GET OUT OF SPANISH. AHAHAHAHAHA PWN3D. They just instigated a new policy wherein they accept your high school foreign language credits for college. w00t! I can cancel that test on Saturday, because if I DO want to take Spanish eventually, I'll only have to take it again laterz. sw3333t! I just used a whole lot of 1337.
There's a 1-credit piano class for 1053|25 (sorry, I'll stop that now) that I want to take, Applied Class Lesson. I'm going to go bother someone in the music building on Tuesday, after lab, to see whether I'm allowed. I NEED 2 LEARN HOW 2 PLAY THE FUCKING PIANO. Other classes I'm planning on taking are:
- Native American Literature (double-counts as one of my lit electives AND my cultural whatthefuckevar credit, and there's a good chance that Dessy and I are taking it togetherz!!)
- Oral Interpretation of Literature (this will suck, but it's required)
- Foundation of Drawing & Design II: 3D (this is provided that it's OPEN by the time I get to register, which is 9AM on Wednesday the 19th)
- Somedamngeology: SomethingaboutNebraska (this is a 1-credit science course that I can take because I only NEED 1 more credit to finish with science, after I finish Food Science and Physics Lab)
- Fundamentals of Poetry Writingz (this is one of those Writing Cores I need for Les Major)
14 credits total. I'm so glad I'm almost done with my general requirements! Lessons Learned:
1) Do well on your ACT. Seriously. Do really well. Study the math. DO WELL.
2) Take foreign language in high school.
3) Take as much math in high school as you can stand.
4) If you don't want to go into hardcore college right away, take community college classes! Get your English Composition done at community college - it makes your life so, so much easier.
So there's that. I'll go see what kind of schedule I can drum up and write it all down so I can just slap in some codes on Wednesday.
Mom parked outside of the student center, so I passed through there to say hi to THE COFFEE PEOPLE, who I haven't seen in ages because my classes are dumb!! I hugged Miss Dessy and talked for a while, but we had to go so I could get ready for my J0BZ0R INTERVIEW. Let us hang out sometime, Destiny!!! <3
We had Wendy's for lunch. I keep feeding my cat food and I feel like such a terrible mother, because she has such a fat little tummy that swings when she walks! X( I'm so neglectful. I should make her go on a diet, but she's so damn PERSISTENT...
I got dolled up (Mom took a picture of me - last night, I bought a really nice 3/4-sleeved brown-striped polyester dress shirt at Kohl's for $15 and wore a long black skirt and these new wedge heels - I even put on concealer! - too many dashes) and drove us to Michaels, where I was interviewed by a nice pregnant lady for about 15 minutes. She asked silly questions, like what I'd do if I was checking people out and some bitch wanted flowers, and I think I answered them all 'correctly', and I made my babysitting sound more important than it was and college sound more complicated than it is because SHE made them sound that way. She's looking for people who can work evenings and weekends, 10-25 hours a week, and she's going to interview a ton of bitchez and then she'll contact the ones she likes best. I'm totally cool with working that kind of schedule, although I think I'll submit my World Market application after all, just in case.
I can't decide if I want to go to the gym or not. I may. Especially since I had a fantastically caloric lunch, and today is the last day of my free trial business.
HOKAY, I think I'm done talking now! Kudos to anyone who read all of this.
J.
Last night was the Yiyun Li reading. I really admire her. She's a great writer. Hers is the only book I bought for class that I'm definitely keeping - I had her sign it and shook her hand and told her that I thought of her as the Chinese Salman Rushdie. She said she admires him a lot (Smeg: "It'd have sucked if she'd been like, DAMN, I HATE that guy!"), so I'm glad I said it. I highly recommend her short story collection, if you're in the market for a book to read.
I've got to write both a response paper on her reading (which will, unlike my other scathing reviews, be glowing - so glowing I'm not sure what I'm going to write, but I'll call it A Thousand Years Of Good Writings) as well as a critical essay about SOME ASPECT of her writing in comparison to Salman Rushdie's. I've been rereading his short story collection, East, West, in case I use it as a source. I know his novels pretty well.
My computer's been freezing and being weird lately. I ran a virus scan, but nothing showed up. I'm not doing anything differently, so I really don't know what it is, although it MIGHT be Windows Media Player.
So I had my advisement this morning. It turns out my counselor for the rest of my degree's courses will be Art, a.k.a. the man I call 'shitty old man poet.' Oh, snap, says the world, laughing at me. Mom groaned and said maybe he won't be so bad, and yeah, I doubt he's an offensive person since I met him before a few years ago, but he ALSO teaches a lot of the poetry classes and dammit! I don't want to write your brand of poetry! I'm going to be fighting my writing teachers all the way through this degree, I can feel it in my pinky fingers. >\ I did turn in a GOOD poem, Underwater, to Todd yesterday, to prove I'm not just taking the piss. And we have to submit something to the class anthology and I'd rather not be remembered as the sardonic bitch who... took the piss.
ANYWAY, advisement. Katie (the transfer advisor/head of something important regarding fine arts) was really helpful and said I was very prepared (tee hee, it's like 3rd grade again!) and that I'm doing uber-well getting my general requirements done, which was my plan, because damned if I'm going to take classes I don't want/need.
In that same vein, I not only get to have math waived because of my perceived Proficiency, I GET OUT OF SPANISH. AHAHAHAHAHA PWN3D. They just instigated a new policy wherein they accept your high school foreign language credits for college. w00t! I can cancel that test on Saturday, because if I DO want to take Spanish eventually, I'll only have to take it again laterz. sw3333t! I just used a whole lot of 1337.
There's a 1-credit piano class for 1053|25 (sorry, I'll stop that now) that I want to take, Applied Class Lesson. I'm going to go bother someone in the music building on Tuesday, after lab, to see whether I'm allowed. I NEED 2 LEARN HOW 2 PLAY THE FUCKING PIANO. Other classes I'm planning on taking are:
- Native American Literature (double-counts as one of my lit electives AND my cultural whatthefuckevar credit, and there's a good chance that Dessy and I are taking it togetherz!!)
- Oral Interpretation of Literature (this will suck, but it's required)
- Foundation of Drawing & Design II: 3D (this is provided that it's OPEN by the time I get to register, which is 9AM on Wednesday the 19th)
- Somedamngeology: SomethingaboutNebraska (this is a 1-credit science course that I can take because I only NEED 1 more credit to finish with science, after I finish Food Science and Physics Lab)
- Fundamentals of Poetry Writingz (this is one of those Writing Cores I need for Les Major)
14 credits total. I'm so glad I'm almost done with my general requirements! Lessons Learned:
1) Do well on your ACT. Seriously. Do really well. Study the math. DO WELL.
2) Take foreign language in high school.
3) Take as much math in high school as you can stand.
4) If you don't want to go into hardcore college right away, take community college classes! Get your English Composition done at community college - it makes your life so, so much easier.
So there's that. I'll go see what kind of schedule I can drum up and write it all down so I can just slap in some codes on Wednesday.
Mom parked outside of the student center, so I passed through there to say hi to THE COFFEE PEOPLE, who I haven't seen in ages because my classes are dumb!! I hugged Miss Dessy and talked for a while, but we had to go so I could get ready for my J0BZ0R INTERVIEW. Let us hang out sometime, Destiny!!! <3
We had Wendy's for lunch. I keep feeding my cat food and I feel like such a terrible mother, because she has such a fat little tummy that swings when she walks! X( I'm so neglectful. I should make her go on a diet, but she's so damn PERSISTENT...
I got dolled up (Mom took a picture of me - last night, I bought a really nice 3/4-sleeved brown-striped polyester dress shirt at Kohl's for $15 and wore a long black skirt and these new wedge heels - I even put on concealer! - too many dashes) and drove us to Michaels, where I was interviewed by a nice pregnant lady for about 15 minutes. She asked silly questions, like what I'd do if I was checking people out and some bitch wanted flowers, and I think I answered them all 'correctly', and I made my babysitting sound more important than it was and college sound more complicated than it is because SHE made them sound that way. She's looking for people who can work evenings and weekends, 10-25 hours a week, and she's going to interview a ton of bitchez and then she'll contact the ones she likes best. I'm totally cool with working that kind of schedule, although I think I'll submit my World Market application after all, just in case.
I can't decide if I want to go to the gym or not. I may. Especially since I had a fantastically caloric lunch, and today is the last day of my free trial business.
HOKAY, I think I'm done talking now! Kudos to anyone who read all of this.
J.