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I've been working very hard this week (and last weekend) on all the transcribing and translating I have to do before I can seriously start my paper for advisor R's seminar, and despite a late-ish start this morning that continued right up to mid-afternoon today. Then, however, I realized I was very tired, and I also got swamped by a tide of surprise, although hormonally-predictable, emo. As a result, I've dedicated my evening to cooking, eating, and the internet, and soon I'm going to go to bed. I did finally make my kohlrabi-leek gratin, though, and it's delicious. Plus, it means I have lunch for tomorrow so I can stop attacking my bank account with dining-hall lunch expenses.
Among all the working, I went downtown to the French Cultural Center of Boston yesterday evening and took the oral placement test and registered for that French conversation class that I think I last mentioned sometime in January. The spring class session starts next week, and I'll be there on Tuesday evening for the advanced conversation class. The instructor I talked to as my "oral placement test" said I tested somewhere on the intermediate/advanced borderline, but thought I should be in the advanced class. I'm a little nervous, because French! French with people I don't know yet. Eep. But in any case, now all I have to do is show up.
Other than that - and there is much else, but some of it I don't want to talk about, and there is also bed the better to resume working hard tomorrow - a fact that deserves a special mention is that I keep finding out that EVEN MORE of my peers are having babies, currently especially the ones I grew up in Vernon with. While I'm generally happy for them, and very happy for some of them, like my once upon a time bestie KW, I'm also finding it all a little shocking. I'm trying not to let it make me feel like I fail at adulthood (as a number of things are doing right now), because it's not actually as if I wish I were having children right now, or married, or whatever. But it is making me very acutely aware of the different kind of adulthood I've chosen for myself. And it's making me really appreciate it!
In any case, there's a lot more I could say on the topic, both about heteronormativity and conventionality and my thoughts about them, and about the difference between seeing the outlines of people's lives and actually knowing them and their lives, but this was going to be a quick post, and now it already isn't. To bed!
Sam Carter's WTF? face is definitely appropriate to my sentiments, though. Go fellow ambitious female nerds!
Among all the working, I went downtown to the French Cultural Center of Boston yesterday evening and took the oral placement test and registered for that French conversation class that I think I last mentioned sometime in January. The spring class session starts next week, and I'll be there on Tuesday evening for the advanced conversation class. The instructor I talked to as my "oral placement test" said I tested somewhere on the intermediate/advanced borderline, but thought I should be in the advanced class. I'm a little nervous, because French! French with people I don't know yet. Eep. But in any case, now all I have to do is show up.
Other than that - and there is much else, but some of it I don't want to talk about, and there is also bed the better to resume working hard tomorrow - a fact that deserves a special mention is that I keep finding out that EVEN MORE of my peers are having babies, currently especially the ones I grew up in Vernon with. While I'm generally happy for them, and very happy for some of them, like my once upon a time bestie KW, I'm also finding it all a little shocking. I'm trying not to let it make me feel like I fail at adulthood (as a number of things are doing right now), because it's not actually as if I wish I were having children right now, or married, or whatever. But it is making me very acutely aware of the different kind of adulthood I've chosen for myself. And it's making me really appreciate it!
In any case, there's a lot more I could say on the topic, both about heteronormativity and conventionality and my thoughts about them, and about the difference between seeing the outlines of people's lives and actually knowing them and their lives, but this was going to be a quick post, and now it already isn't. To bed!
Sam Carter's WTF? face is definitely appropriate to my sentiments, though. Go fellow ambitious female nerds!