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Hello, friends.
I'm 1 1/2 weeks into my fourth year. Crazy. I'm actually really enjoying all of my courses, although some more than others. The Michael Ondaatje class is amazing -- great class, great and enthusiastic lecturer, the best Canadian fiction around (in my humble opinion), and I'm actually contributing quite a bit in discussion. Could it be that the typically quiet Mandy is FINALLY coming out of her shell? Who knows. The plagues and peoples course is really interesting but the prof is completely insane. And I'm not saying that like, being funny. She really is off the wall. One minute she's pissed off that someone had the nerve to walk into her class 2 minutes late (which I somewhat understand), then she's depressed because no one's laughing at her jokes, then she's insecure ("are you having fun?" "still having fun?"), then feeling her age ("I bet you're all guessing how old I am" x10) and finally crying hysterically only to snap out of it again in seconds. Seriously, manic depression.
See tomorrow's cartoon -- I plan on drawing one based on something she said in class today. But I'll mention this other funny thing she said in another class many years ago. Firstly, you have to know she's VERY animated in class. She jumps around and is hyper all the time. Ok. So she was teaching conduction to non-Science students, and no one was getting it. So she picked out one guy in the front row, and said "TOUCH ME!!! I'm so hot! And when you touch me, you'll get SO HOT too!" I wish I had been there. The thing she said today isn't that good, but... yeah. I killed the buzz. You should look tomorrow at the cartoon tomorrow (link to right).
So much about plagues. Chris and I really enjoyed the Ring Cycle last week. The new Opera House is so nice, and the sound was great. Good times.
I've been reading like a madwoman lately. I read everything for this week, and starting on next week. I read the play for Tragedy last night, I've read about half of In the Skin of a Lion this afternoon, and I've read the first chapter of Orchid Thief. Huzzah. I like this reading ahead thing -- I feel so productive right now. Grand plan: Finish the Ondaatje ASAP so I can reread The English Patient in order to write a paper/presentation for October 10. Wish me luck.
Ta ta! Must go a-stationary-biking now, while watching Jeopardy (a daily tradition).
-Me
I'm 1 1/2 weeks into my fourth year. Crazy. I'm actually really enjoying all of my courses, although some more than others. The Michael Ondaatje class is amazing -- great class, great and enthusiastic lecturer, the best Canadian fiction around (in my humble opinion), and I'm actually contributing quite a bit in discussion. Could it be that the typically quiet Mandy is FINALLY coming out of her shell? Who knows. The plagues and peoples course is really interesting but the prof is completely insane. And I'm not saying that like, being funny. She really is off the wall. One minute she's pissed off that someone had the nerve to walk into her class 2 minutes late (which I somewhat understand), then she's depressed because no one's laughing at her jokes, then she's insecure ("are you having fun?" "still having fun?"), then feeling her age ("I bet you're all guessing how old I am" x10) and finally crying hysterically only to snap out of it again in seconds. Seriously, manic depression.
See tomorrow's cartoon -- I plan on drawing one based on something she said in class today. But I'll mention this other funny thing she said in another class many years ago. Firstly, you have to know she's VERY animated in class. She jumps around and is hyper all the time. Ok. So she was teaching conduction to non-Science students, and no one was getting it. So she picked out one guy in the front row, and said "TOUCH ME!!! I'm so hot! And when you touch me, you'll get SO HOT too!" I wish I had been there. The thing she said today isn't that good, but... yeah. I killed the buzz. You should look tomorrow at the cartoon tomorrow (link to right).
So much about plagues. Chris and I really enjoyed the Ring Cycle last week. The new Opera House is so nice, and the sound was great. Good times.
I've been reading like a madwoman lately. I read everything for this week, and starting on next week. I read the play for Tragedy last night, I've read about half of In the Skin of a Lion this afternoon, and I've read the first chapter of Orchid Thief. Huzzah. I like this reading ahead thing -- I feel so productive right now. Grand plan: Finish the Ondaatje ASAP so I can reread The English Patient in order to write a paper/presentation for October 10. Wish me luck.
Ta ta! Must go a-stationary-biking now, while watching Jeopardy (a daily tradition).
-Me
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