Back from the dead
My wrists are feeling betterish these days, and it's quite a relief. I went today over to a professor's house to put on a play in Farsi, since we've been learning it in our Field Methods class for a semester now and it was decreed that we could do that instead of writing a grammar. I had a lot of fun writing and doing it... I was a suicidal serpent in one scene, and played the chorus for the rest of it.
I must admit, for a prof, his parties aren't all that bad, and there was fine food, and those really good fresh dates that I could die for, and the company wasn't too bad either. I now have half of my exams and finals done for the semester, which is very liberating because last week and this weekend I was panicing about it very much. I am only worried about my advanced phonology paper now, because I haven't really had time to research it yet and the rough draft was due last monday, and the real thing is due on May 1st, but I think I will manage to get through it. I also have to study for Latin and get my Indo-European take-home done, but I know if I need the time I can ask for and receive an extension for that one, so there is little to no pressure about it.
I think I even have time to go to my two parties I would like to this weekend. One of them is a party for my Latin class, which can't be that bad and to which it was suggested I go for my academic safety. Also, I know a few friends of mine are going so if nothing else I can sit in a corner and chat with them. The other is a massage party, which is something I've never been to before but I imagine it shall be quite good. I don't know exactly who all will be there, but I know at least five or six people, so it's not like I'll be hurting for friendly faces.
I've just noticed, though, that I'm thinking about these parties not as places to go to meet people so much as places where I want to meet people I already know. I'm not sure if that's good or bad, subjectively speaking, but I find it an interesting observation. I suppose it's partially because I tend not to mix very well into groups where I don't know people and end up being vaguely wallflowerish, so I wonder if I shouldn't go to a party I hear about sometime where I don't know a single soul? Might be worth a shot, to see what happens.
I must admit, for a prof, his parties aren't all that bad, and there was fine food, and those really good fresh dates that I could die for, and the company wasn't too bad either. I now have half of my exams and finals done for the semester, which is very liberating because last week and this weekend I was panicing about it very much. I am only worried about my advanced phonology paper now, because I haven't really had time to research it yet and the rough draft was due last monday, and the real thing is due on May 1st, but I think I will manage to get through it. I also have to study for Latin and get my Indo-European take-home done, but I know if I need the time I can ask for and receive an extension for that one, so there is little to no pressure about it.
I think I even have time to go to my two parties I would like to this weekend. One of them is a party for my Latin class, which can't be that bad and to which it was suggested I go for my academic safety. Also, I know a few friends of mine are going so if nothing else I can sit in a corner and chat with them. The other is a massage party, which is something I've never been to before but I imagine it shall be quite good. I don't know exactly who all will be there, but I know at least five or six people, so it's not like I'll be hurting for friendly faces.
I've just noticed, though, that I'm thinking about these parties not as places to go to meet people so much as places where I want to meet people I already know. I'm not sure if that's good or bad, subjectively speaking, but I find it an interesting observation. I suppose it's partially because I tend not to mix very well into groups where I don't know people and end up being vaguely wallflowerish, so I wonder if I shouldn't go to a party I hear about sometime where I don't know a single soul? Might be worth a shot, to see what happens.