Homework for the Overactive Brain

Today's Quote--"Happy birthday to me, Happy birthday to me..."

Tuesday, January 13, 2004

 

Biology quote. Ugh. Well, it wasn't as bad as I thought, but three hours with no break...yeah, painful. Hopefully we can get the guy to shut up every once in a while. Oh well...gamanshite ne! And the reading...oy, you know if I had a buck for every time I had to read something about the scientific method...well, okay, I'd still be poor, but after the fifth time, going over it in basic terms, I'm sick of it. Doing it's great...Not happy with the book, after they said Sociology and Anthropology weren't 'REAL' sciences. At least they guy didn't say anything about Psychology. Grrr. Damn non-social science scientists. Hurmph.

Psych of Education was cool...oy, another first..."The First Applied Psych Course" Well, at least there aren't any freshmen. I could name everyone in the room, and I have classes with most of them. Yeah! And it's nice to be back with Jody. I love her classes! Obviously, how many have I taken now? Three? Four? Hmmm. Wait...that freshmen thing sounds bad. Hey, I've met 3! Only 86 more to go. I have 4 months! Right... Anyway, I think I'll really be able to get a taste for teaching and decide if I want to persue it further. Yeah me.

Oh yeah, and the quote, makes me think of a carrot with a globe attached. Ha ha ha. Oy. Have to go write a little paper on it after I finish blogging. ;) Saw BF. Okay, so he wasn't screaming for joy...but he was VERY happy to see me. Oy, what has the poor guy been going through? Ah, well, I'm back, and still Orchestra Manager for SOCCO. Yeah me. But it's going to be a hell of a lot of work this semester, I think. I'm probably going to have to challenge a lot of my crap. Well, that seems to be the order for the day, so no problem, I guess. So far I've done huge amounts of daimoku (for me), so I should be good. Daimoku=chanting/praying, for my non-SGI readership. We'll see how long that'll last...;)

Ah, amazing of all amazing things...they came and opened my drawer! Yeah!!! I still feel stupid that it got stuck in the first place, but now I have my electronic dictionary and that's all that really matters. So I started on that big reading assignment...after discovering that I couldn't read about half the kanji, I gave up and skimmed, only checking the ones that seemed important. I got all the way to the thrid page like that...getting the gist, sorta, of what the guy was talking about. I even got his point. But then I ran into a kanji river (or at least that's what it looked like) and I had to put the thing down, it was too much for my brain. I think this reading is about 3 months above my level. I'll see what everyone else has to say in class tomorrow. With my luck, they'll all have figured out most of it, just fine. Oy. Well, I'll do my best and that's all I can do. I have this sneaking suspicion that their program was more difficult than mine. But then again, I forget that they're all years ahead of me anyway, since all the people in this class have grown up listening and speaking. Oy. Well, it's the revenge of the white girl once again....or something. But yeah, keep trying.

I am just beginning to realize how incredibly busy I am going to be...especially if I get the job with AO. The homework load is just beginning and I'm already freaked out. Joys...thanks Japan, making me think that two hours of homework a night was a lot. Humph...round here, its at least four. And that's on a quiet day. Ahh, the memories are starting to return...and now, I really miss my limbs, as I've taken to calling them...yeah, you four know who you are. SJAE. Arms and legs, I feel almost crippled without ya'll, but I'm making a go of it anyway. It was all okay until I got back to SUA and you weren't here...But I suppose I'll just have to make friends with these intimidating freshmen. I don't think I'll ever be able to meet them all...and I'm kinda scared of the fourth class...so many people! I realized that in four years...SUA will be packed with people who don't know everyone. I think that will be missed. Being in the first class was truely a gift, something special, to be able to know so many wonderful people. I would be too intimidated by coming into a university with 400 students there already. And just for a moment, I feel like I definately made the right choice in coming here. And then I run off to a debriefing with AO and attempt to hide my shudders....must overcome despising!

Okay, time to start that little paper...*sigh* Time flies when you need to do stuff...and sticks around when you look towards the future. All righty...off...see you on the flip side!

GL 5:05 PM