10 posts tagged “class”
After a bit of a rough start this morning (what the hell was up with that dream about milk and ninjas? and why was I being exiled to the college library for saying something about "jugs"? I was talking about the milk, damnit!) and an equally rough two hours of my philosophy "final" where we discussed our papers before getting them back (ugh!) I was instantly put in an excellent mood by getting my paper back and seeing that I GOT AN A ON IT OMG. :D This makes me a happy pands (lol pands). Sooooo I might actually get an A in philosophy. This means that I might actually get on the dean's list again this semester. It all depends on that damn philosophy class though, which might be an A, but it also might be a B. I'm pretty sure I have three As (both Spanishes and Music), a B (political science, assuming my grade didn't get fucked up by being absent a bit) and then philosophy is up in the air. If I get a B in phil, then no dean's list cuz I think that'd make my GPA a 3.5, and I need a 3.7. But if I get an A in it then I'd get a 3.75. Which would mean dean's list. Which would totally rock my box. *crosses fingers*
Horribly enough, the only reason I want to get on the dean's list is because then I'm more likely to get a PS3 for my birthday. Bragging rights are nice and all, but goddamnit I just want a PS3. lol.
Anyway my parents should get into town like....literally any minute now, so I'm just wasting time because I'm lazy and want them to help me pack shit up. So pardon the babbling.
After a quick call to AAA and about a half hour wait, a guy came and yanked my car out with a winch (or whatever it's called...I dunno). Then he jumped my battery and now my car is sitting prettily in the parking lot right outside my apartment, relatively snow-free and, most importantly, DRIVABLE. :D I'm happy this whole debacle is over.
By now I've had all of my classes at least once, and I am a huge fan of getting out of class by noon every day. Last semester I had a crazy schedule with all sorts of classes at all sorts of bogus times during the day (I also had 6 classes instead of 5, which is how many I have this semester). The only bad thing about that is that it will be harder to procrastinate (several times last semester I'd do something for my 1 o'clock geology class during the two hours I had between it and my Spanish class in the morning) which for me will be most difficult.
I also need to do the dreadful job hunt now :s I hate job hunting. I don't mind working, work is fine. I actually like working because it keeps me busy and gets me out of my own head so I don't fall into really nasty bits of depression. But I HATE finding jobs. Figuring out where you'd like to work, going there and talking to them, filling out the application, blah blah blah. Not a fan of that part.
I think tonight I'll kind of map out a bit of a "job hunt circuit" around town and then swing by all the places tomorrow. Good? Good.
I really need something to do, like a project or something. I've wanted to learn guitar for a while now but that would require buying a guitar, and I have no money. Maybe like, start a website thing? I don't know what I'd make the site about, I could just have it be a random "me site" where I put random shit up. I dunno.
Today was the first day of class, and all I have to say is:
Spanish classes here are, indeed, in Spanish (whoda thunk it?). I was totally unprepared for this and haven't listened to so much Spanish since May, so I had a major headache afterwards. I guess it is a level 3 class, so I'm just an idiot for expecting it to be a breeze.
Me + trying to sound smart in art class = me making an ass of myself in art class. No, that's not a painting that's currently in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, that was painted by your teacher. Your 20-something blonde teacher.
Ummm yeah. Still need to meet people, though I was sort of reacquainted with a few oldies who I was friends with freshman year.
I got my sociology test back today, and I fucking owned that thing. So proud of myself. I usually don't make big deals of getting good grades on stuff, but I haven't really been...well...studious for the past two years, so it's kind of nice to actually do well on a test that I was prepared for and that I care about.
Now, I have to write a speech, study for bio, and catch up on reading for soc so I can ace the next (and final) test in that class as hardcore as I aced this one.
And speaking of school, today I finally got the "acceptance packet" or whatever they call it, telling me I got into Metro, giving me a map, list of how much stuff costs, etc etc. Earth to Metro, school started two weeks ago, and one of my classes is already over half done. kthxbye.
I'm also seriously debating with myself about certain expensive electronic items. MacBook....or Xbox 360 and TV? I kinda really want a new TV because the one I have now is a behemoth that weighs twice as much as I do and will not be fun transporting 200 miles across the state in the fall. I also want the 360 because I feel way out of the loop these days when it comes to video games, and I'd really like to get back in the saddle. Yes, I have a Wii, but I want blood. And sex. And aliens. The MacBook is probably the least-needed but most-desired, simply because I've been aching for a laptop pretty much since they became common many years ago, and because Mac OS X Leopard is coming out in October, which is looking sexier every time I think about it. Financially both routes are going to be expensive (though TV + 360 will be less, ideally), but I think I can work out some sort of deal with my parents by using a combination of guilt-tripping and "look at how well I'm doing in school!" Plus I already have a fair bit of cash to my own name that I earned via honest means, so it's not like I'll be totally mooching. I'll just be asking for a bit of help...
With starting class this week, I realized how much I actually missed it: all the studying, the hectic "ohmygod class starts like now and the building is 10 minutes away!" and suddenly realizing that it's midnight, I have to get up in 8 hours (I don't do well on anything less than 9) and have a couple textbook chapters to read. The mental stimulation is nice, but here's hoping I don't become a total vegetable after I graduate. Just so long as I get a good job...but I won't get started on that, as I'm at exactly the same point on the "what do I want to do with my life?" question as I was one, two, three months ago.
I've made a couple friends in my classes. In my sociology class we have small discussion groups, and mine has one other girl and three guys. I naturally tend to get along better with other girls, and she's no exception, of the people in the group I think I have the most potential for friendship with her than anyone. There's also a guy in both my bio and soc classes who struck up random conversations with me several times today, and he's nice and everything so we'll see where that goes. I'm finding myself to be rather predatory, I'm actually looking at any potential friendships as a means to meeting someone else who I might actually fancy a relationship with. I need friends, for sure, but more than that I need a friend friend. So far no one I've met so far has tickled that particular fancy for me, except a girl who I sat behind in my public speaking class for the 30 minutes we were waiting for the professor (he didn't come so after the half hour we all just left.) Of course, that's the class that meets once every two weeks for three hours, so I'll have to wait quite a while to see if I can attempt to make anything of it. Unfortunately, my gaydar (which is rather poorly tuned, I'll admit) screams "heterosexual." To take a quote from queer-movie-that-no-one-has-seen, Imagine Me and You: "she's not just heterosexual, she's like...Barbie heterosexual!" Though in the movie the Barbie heterosexual girl actually did end up with the Heroine Lesbo, but then again it was a British chick flick about lesbians so it's hardly a source from which to draw realistic predictions.
Anyway, I seriously digress. Point is: me + school = not half bad.
On a completely different note, the family is going to see Beavers at the "iWERKS" (like a ghetto IMAX I suppose) at the Denver Wildlife Experience tomorrow. When I was really little (like 2 or 3) we went and saw it at the Natural History Museum's IMAX, and the entire ride home I was making beaver sounds like "eeeeeeh, eeeeeehhhh." Anyway it's been a bit of a running joke in the family ever since then, one of those things my parents will never, ever let me forget (and which I, sadly, don't remember) so I'm kind of interested to see it tomorrow, and see if it jogs any sort of distant memory.
But...Beavers!
Oh Hermione, you crack me up.
As of today, I've been back in lovely Barcelona for a whole four weeks. It doesn't seem that long at all. I guess I'm a little under a third of the way done, which is really rather horrifying considering I have two and a half months left to, you know, learn Spanish. Oh shi! I actually had a really good grammar class today. You know those days when class is just down right fun? That was today. :)
Mel (who was going to stay for the whole year but decided to drop out of the program and travel around Europe instead) is coming back to Barcelona tonight which is cool. A bunch of us are going out for Gaetano's birthday, then probably go out and meet up with Mel eventually. So, yay, that's fun.
Ohmygod!!!! July 21!! This makes Katie very excited :DD I already sent my mom an email asking her to preorder it for me. I'm reading them all again, I finished the second one yesterday and am like halfway through the third one already...bwahahaha. HP for the win.
Aaaaanyway. It's weird coming up here to the ISA office because all the students are new and I don't know any of them, and they all know each other to some degree because they went to Madrid and Toledo and everywhere before they got into Barcelona (like I did in September) so they're all buddy buddy. I've gotten to know my roommate a bit more, she's really cool, hopefully I'll be able to hang out with her a bit more. I've mostly been going out with Ben, Kinsy and Gaetano (who were all here last semester) so it's fun. Today's actually Kinsy's birthday so we're gonna go out and do some big shabang tonight (including making gluten free brownies!! mmm). We're also sort of planning on a trip up to London and Scotland and Ireland, which would be totally awesome. Even if I go nowhere else this semester, if I can go there I'd be so stoked.
I got a new language class schedule, it's the same level as last semester but different days (3 hours on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday....eww). But class still starts at 11:30 so that's excellent (though it's still kinda early, man...I've been having to set my alarm for like 3 these past few days).
And so far, I haven't a) lost my camera b) gotten my wallet stolen or c) lost a lot of money. I have, however, spent a bit too much money already, though I figure after the first week then things will slow down a tad....ok no that's a lie, but still. I'm gonna get some money out of the ATM today and then hide my debit card for a while.
Yesterday was Ben's birthday so I went with him, Nelson and Amanda to Hard Rock Cafe (two times in a week!) and spent way too much money, again. Then we went to a bar and met some other ISA people and I spent way too much money, again. We discoteca'd for a while and took the metro home and then my key wouldn't work, and whilst trying to find the light switch in the hall after it went off I accidentally pushed the doorbell instead. So my "parents" came and opened the door after some difficulty. Let me tell you, that wasn't embarassing at all! Fucking up the door at like 6:30am and then waltzing in in a swirl of alcohol and smoke! -_-
So today I had to peel myself out of bed (literally....cold sweat for the lose) at like 2:30 and bolt down my lunch and then book it to class at 3. I was practically powerwalking down there and somehow got to school in 5 minutes (it's usually like 15) and of course no one was there anyway. But no more culture classes! Two days of grammar next week, a few days off and then finals time. Yay? Ew? Something?
I love that song!! I want it to play at my funeral along with a montage of my life. Yeah that's actually not true, plus that's just kind of morbid, so moving on.
So I'm sick, which is not happiness, because I feel fine other than the fact that I have to blow like a pound of snot out of my nose every hour, I can't talk properly, and I have to pretty much constantly be drinking some sort of fluid in order for my throat to want to cooperate with me and allow me to talk. Anyway, pity me, please. Thank you.
I deleted like half my friends on Facebook, people who I either don't know or just plain don't care about. So now I'm looking at people's pictures and they're making me laugh. Especially the pictures of people who I was friends with in like 2nd grade, now there are all these pictures of them playing beer pong in booty shorts and making out with 5 people at a time. Whew!
One week of class, one week off, and one week of finals. Then I go HOME, beetches! Woot. I'm actually kind of scared for finals. Oh well, I guess I know what I'll be doing that week we have off before finals. That's right, bitches, discotecas til 7am. Mmhm.
I also have like $1,000 for all of next semester!! I think the correct word for this situation is "fucked." That's like €750 for living and traveling in Europe, which ain't exactly cheap. Fuck meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....
Yay Rome tomorrow! Amanda and I have our Cine Español class from 3-6, then we're going to book it over to the bus stop, take the bus to teh Girona airport (like an hour ride..ugh) and then hop on our flight at 9:45 and arive in Rome around 11:15. Fun! We're going out for dinner tonight to sort of plan out what we're doing. We're probably going to go to the Vatican on Monday, since it's closed on Sundays and Saturday will probably be horrilby swamped with people. There's a lot of other stuff that we want to do, we just have to figure out what's close together and sort of plan out a route for each day. I have my handy dandy Rome guide that is going to be a lifesaver, it has excellent maps.
I just sent an email to my profesor for my Spanish language class because I'm going to miss a buttload of classes the next couple weeks. I'm actually kind of proud, even though I had to use Babelfish a bit, the only thing I had to change was "subjetos" to "temas" (and all this time I've been saying "subjetos" when I want to say "subjects"! And it doesn't even mean anything! Whoops!) Yay! Progress ftw.
I have to write up something for my literature class that I have in a half hour, then after that I'm going to get food. Today flew by, I had an awesome night of sleep, woke up around 10 and went to class at 11:30 until 2:30, then another class from 3-4:30, then came to the ISA office to get online and then I have one more class until 7:30, and then dinner, so I will have been gone like the entire fucking day. :D ¡Me gusta ir de marcha!
The other day I was about to get into the shower when all the sudden I hear a very familiar "miya hee, miya haa, miya hoo, miya ha ha" coming from somewhere in the depths of the apartment building. I literally laughed out loud. Of all the random songs, that's the one I hear.
I am soooo excited for tomorrow. My two and a half weeks of madness begins, finally!! :D
