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brinshannara) wrote2005-04-15 01:32 am
brinshannara) wrote2005-04-15 01:32 am
Of registration and bathrooms and such.
I'm tired and I should probably go to sleep soon. But I don't feel like it.
Instead, I shall regale you with tales of my day! Oh yes.
School Registration
So, three weeks after I found out that my friends JB and RM are taking Research Methods over the summer, I finally have paid off the school so that I may register. I am registered in the class! Woohoo! JB and Research Methods every Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30pm-9pm. I am excited. About seeing her so much, not about Research Methods. ;)
I hate my schedule. I spent half the day piecing it together, fighting with the web registration system that seems to timeout all the time (goddamn it, people, IIS was not meant for this much traffic, USE APACHE.). I would use the phone to register, but, you know, they GOT RID of phone registration last year. I know it's just the initial rush from all the people in first and second year trying to register, but still. It's irritating.
What I registered for right away was Intermediate Italian I inthe fall and Intermediate Italian II in the winter. I'd really like to learn a lot more Italian and become more fluent, and I know that if I don't use it, it's going to atrophy and that would suck. Further, my dad has some big business meeting thing in Milan in the summer of 2006. (It's big, like I said, hence the planning ahead.) Since my father has a LUDICROUS amount of airmiles at his disposal, my mom and I are clamouring to go with him (my brother may even want to go. Who knows?) and I would LOVE to be able to go to Italy and say something more substantial than ordering non-carbonated water. And Milan! I've never been to Milan! I've been to Italy twice, basically when I could least appreciate it. Once at age five and once at age 13. And I was a very SULKY 13 year old. Then again, a family vacation may result in my killing my whole family, but at least if I took two full years of Italian, I'd be able to adequately explain what drove me to kill them, and would probably get off. ;)
But apart from Milan, I really want to be more fluent in Italian. It's so similar to French, almost all the grammar rules and syntax are the same, so it's a matter of just learning the words and plugging them into the right spots. I'd like to say that I am fluent in three languages. I think it would be cool.
Okay, enough with l'italiano, eh? ;)
I'm required to take an Anthropology class at the 200 level. Shoot me, I've selected Introduction to Culture. I really wanted Race and Ethnic Relations, which was taught by my Social Deviance teacher from last year, but that's at an obscene hour and only during the summer. :/ So, Intro to Culture it is, for now.
Sociology? Hello, Sociology of Occupations. Not Sociology of Media, which is what I wanted. Ah, well. Maybe Nelly can help me out when I see her on May 4th.
I'm also taking a Z course (general education credits) that's actually an English course that I wanted to take, and now I can take it and get rid of one of those GenEd requirements. W00t. It's called "The Creative Process". So those are the four classes in the fall.
Another Z course I'm taking is Mass Communications, a (surprise, surprise) Communications course. Should be neat. My Sociology is Law and Society, which should be... okay, I guess. With the Italian, that makes 3, and I have no idea what the fourth should be.
I'm not happy with the Soci classes, but I can hopefully change them. It's not set in stone.
The important thing is I got Research Methods this summer with JB and RM, and that makes me happy. :)
Lunch. And my bathroom.
My only first cousin (my dad was an only child, my mom has one brother, who had one son) has been living in The Hague in Holland for the last five years or so. He married his wife four years ago and we only see him or them once every 12-18 months. He's older than me and has always been more than a little bit obnoxious. It's like my brother and my uncle combined. But anyways, my cousin's in town because he and his wife have been accepted to immigrate to Australia. They both love it there, they met there like, six or seven years ago. And this means that we won't see him more than once every three or four years.
It was an okay lunch. My grandmother had all three of her grandchildren over for lunch for the first, and possibly last, time. We all had a few laughs, and it was pleasant enough. I still don't particularly like my cousin very much, but we can at least get along.
As to the bathroom, there is water trapped in the walls an under the tub. This causes the leaking. They're going to redo that part of the bathroom in a couple weeks. 'till then, I have to deal. I don't mind, this is fine. It won't interrupt my studying.
Instead, I shall regale you with tales of my day! Oh yes.
School Registration
So, three weeks after I found out that my friends JB and RM are taking Research Methods over the summer, I finally have paid off the school so that I may register. I am registered in the class! Woohoo! JB and Research Methods every Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30pm-9pm. I am excited. About seeing her so much, not about Research Methods. ;)
I hate my schedule. I spent half the day piecing it together, fighting with the web registration system that seems to timeout all the time (goddamn it, people, IIS was not meant for this much traffic, USE APACHE.). I would use the phone to register, but, you know, they GOT RID of phone registration last year. I know it's just the initial rush from all the people in first and second year trying to register, but still. It's irritating.
What I registered for right away was Intermediate Italian I inthe fall and Intermediate Italian II in the winter. I'd really like to learn a lot more Italian and become more fluent, and I know that if I don't use it, it's going to atrophy and that would suck. Further, my dad has some big business meeting thing in Milan in the summer of 2006. (It's big, like I said, hence the planning ahead.) Since my father has a LUDICROUS amount of airmiles at his disposal, my mom and I are clamouring to go with him (my brother may even want to go. Who knows?) and I would LOVE to be able to go to Italy and say something more substantial than ordering non-carbonated water. And Milan! I've never been to Milan! I've been to Italy twice, basically when I could least appreciate it. Once at age five and once at age 13. And I was a very SULKY 13 year old. Then again, a family vacation may result in my killing my whole family, but at least if I took two full years of Italian, I'd be able to adequately explain what drove me to kill them, and would probably get off. ;)
But apart from Milan, I really want to be more fluent in Italian. It's so similar to French, almost all the grammar rules and syntax are the same, so it's a matter of just learning the words and plugging them into the right spots. I'd like to say that I am fluent in three languages. I think it would be cool.
Okay, enough with l'italiano, eh? ;)
I'm required to take an Anthropology class at the 200 level. Shoot me, I've selected Introduction to Culture. I really wanted Race and Ethnic Relations, which was taught by my Social Deviance teacher from last year, but that's at an obscene hour and only during the summer. :/ So, Intro to Culture it is, for now.
Sociology? Hello, Sociology of Occupations. Not Sociology of Media, which is what I wanted. Ah, well. Maybe Nelly can help me out when I see her on May 4th.
I'm also taking a Z course (general education credits) that's actually an English course that I wanted to take, and now I can take it and get rid of one of those GenEd requirements. W00t. It's called "The Creative Process". So those are the four classes in the fall.
Another Z course I'm taking is Mass Communications, a (surprise, surprise) Communications course. Should be neat. My Sociology is Law and Society, which should be... okay, I guess. With the Italian, that makes 3, and I have no idea what the fourth should be.
I'm not happy with the Soci classes, but I can hopefully change them. It's not set in stone.
The important thing is I got Research Methods this summer with JB and RM, and that makes me happy. :)
Lunch. And my bathroom.
My only first cousin (my dad was an only child, my mom has one brother, who had one son) has been living in The Hague in Holland for the last five years or so. He married his wife four years ago and we only see him or them once every 12-18 months. He's older than me and has always been more than a little bit obnoxious. It's like my brother and my uncle combined. But anyways, my cousin's in town because he and his wife have been accepted to immigrate to Australia. They both love it there, they met there like, six or seven years ago. And this means that we won't see him more than once every three or four years.
It was an okay lunch. My grandmother had all three of her grandchildren over for lunch for the first, and possibly last, time. We all had a few laughs, and it was pleasant enough. I still don't particularly like my cousin very much, but we can at least get along.
As to the bathroom, there is water trapped in the walls an under the tub. This causes the leaking. They're going to redo that part of the bathroom in a couple weeks. 'till then, I have to deal. I don't mind, this is fine. It won't interrupt my studying.
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Made me laugh.
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