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These past few days I've had the distinct feeling that I've been out of touch with everyone lately. A note from a friend reinforced this, so here I am with an update. *g*
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iulia_linnea is hosting the third round of the Harry Potter Random Facts Fest! Please go check it out. This fest is always a lot of fun.
Classes--well, a class started this past 28th of August. Intermediate Algebra. It is the sole class I was taking on campus. I am not taking it on campus anymore. I woke up at a painful 10:30 (I know, I know. Wot? What's so awful about that? The fact is I usually live on a very backward schedule, so getting up at 10:30 basically means I get three hours bad sleep. But there it is. Most of my fellow students apparently don't sleep at all. Sheesh.) ...where was I? Oh, right, 10:30. So I woke up hauled myself on a half mile walk in ninety degree weather to the public bus and continued with an hour and twenty minute commute to a school that should take thirty minutes to get to. I then attempted to get a coffee but the line went to the back of the bookstore that overprices the stuff anyway so I went without. There was a a lot swearing in my head at that point I have to say. I got up to class waited the two minutes I had left before it started and found out my teacher was a bloody "lets all work together on these things" sort of teacher. I hate that. I hate teamwork. Hate. Go on and teach your bloody lesson but leave the teamwork crap out of it, thank-you. And for math. Who uses teamwork in a math class? Um, getting back to things. She also treated us a bit like little kids, which I also simply can't stand.
By the end of classes I had a raging headache from lack of caffeine, lack of food, nerves, and stress. Stress because she made us get up in front of the class to present simpleton problems. I can't stand public speaking either, did I mention? But on the bright side, I made it to the bus five minutes before it was to leave the school--if I missed that one I'd end up waiting twenty minutes. In hindsight, waiting might have been better, because that particular bus driver was such a dashed annoying asshole. I won't go into detail.
It took me two hours to sleep off the migraine when I get home. Bugger. So essentially I wasted six hours of my day and life doing absolutely nothing I needed to do. After fuming on it for the rest of the night and the next morning I dropped the class like a hot potato and slid nicely into any on-line version. Now all four of my classes this semester are on-line. Yay!
Aside from that transferring affair, I had one other class transfer I didn't expect. I decided I would attempt to take Speech 101 on-line, because as I mentioned above, public speaking stresses me like nothing else. What this on-line class failed to mention is that I would need video equipment and an audience of five for every repaired speech. I found that gem out just the day before yesterday, dropped the class and took up Psychology and (Physical) Health or some such, the only remaining psych class open. Oh, I knew Speech might not work out, but it was worth a shot. It's a bloody requirement though, so I'll have to deal with the in-class course at some point.
I've also got at least one wrong book for English II, one book I don't need (Speech), one I need to get (psych), and one I'm not sure I ever needed at all as the teacher has informed us that she will be giving us the correct one upon meeting (Math). And since this is Labor Day weekend, that means going in on Tuesday to sort the Mess of Books out.
Now, theoretically, my other three classes start tomorrow, the second. I know it's a Sunday, but all the on-line classes, excepting math courses actually, seem to work on a Sunday-to-Saturday schedule.
That's been school. In other parts of life...
I've joined a gym, I'm not sure I ever mentioned. I joined with my mum about three weeks ago and we've been going almost every-other day. But we've decided to pick up the pace and go every day if we can manage. I really hope we can. This is for weight loss and health purposes.
I have been very behind on my f-list. Both of them, LJ and IJ. I spent yesterday catching up with them both. I now have a good hundred fics bookmarked for reading. *grin* That's just new ones. I have some 200 bookmarked over the past year or so. I never do seem to catch up on that, not that I'm complaining. I always have something to read.
I've taken up knitting again. I haven't knitted in a few months but I started again with a passion. I so far have accomplished a pair of mittens and a strip of an afghan. I'm really quite proud of myself (and my mum) for the afghan. I'm using a pattern of my grandmother's for it, you see, which I had lost, but with an older sample of the pattern we were able to work it out with relative ease. It's admittedly a fairly simple pattern, but I was so relieved to piece it together. It means I haven't lost the pattern after all. *relieved*
There are other new things I'm sure, but they elude me for the moment.
Also, the Jeeves and Wooster love continues. Oh yes.
I've decided to continue with my cross-posting at IJ and LJ because I do have very dear friends not on IJ who I want to keep in touch with. So there it is. The decision happened to be a lot easier than it felt like it would be in the beginning. However fic will not be posted on LJ, though depending on the rating links will be provided.
School will be Taking Up Time, which means I'll be out of touch off and on. I plan to be around, but plans mean nothing to school, I've found.
ETA: Song requests. Please? I'm hoping someone might have the mp3 of any of these:
Gladys Knight - Midnight Train to Georgia
Three Days Grace - Never Too Late
Foo Fighters - Best of You
And two rather vague ones:
Mindfreak theme - I think it's actually called Mindfreak and performed by Criss Angel
This is a partial lyric and I can't find the bloody song. I'm hoping someone will recognize it:
"Revelation
I want to die for you
I want to die for you
I want to be with you"
To pimp! I am absolutely thrilled to announce that
iulia_linnea is hosting the third round of the Harry Potter Random Facts Fest! Please go check it out. This fest is always a lot of fun.Classes--well, a class started this past 28th of August. Intermediate Algebra. It is the sole class I was taking on campus. I am not taking it on campus anymore. I woke up at a painful 10:30 (I know, I know. Wot? What's so awful about that? The fact is I usually live on a very backward schedule, so getting up at 10:30 basically means I get three hours bad sleep. But there it is. Most of my fellow students apparently don't sleep at all. Sheesh.) ...where was I? Oh, right, 10:30. So I woke up hauled myself on a half mile walk in ninety degree weather to the public bus and continued with an hour and twenty minute commute to a school that should take thirty minutes to get to. I then attempted to get a coffee but the line went to the back of the bookstore that overprices the stuff anyway so I went without. There was a a lot swearing in my head at that point I have to say. I got up to class waited the two minutes I had left before it started and found out my teacher was a bloody "lets all work together on these things" sort of teacher. I hate that. I hate teamwork. Hate. Go on and teach your bloody lesson but leave the teamwork crap out of it, thank-you. And for math. Who uses teamwork in a math class? Um, getting back to things. She also treated us a bit like little kids, which I also simply can't stand.
By the end of classes I had a raging headache from lack of caffeine, lack of food, nerves, and stress. Stress because she made us get up in front of the class to present simpleton problems. I can't stand public speaking either, did I mention? But on the bright side, I made it to the bus five minutes before it was to leave the school--if I missed that one I'd end up waiting twenty minutes. In hindsight, waiting might have been better, because that particular bus driver was such a dashed annoying asshole. I won't go into detail.
It took me two hours to sleep off the migraine when I get home. Bugger. So essentially I wasted six hours of my day and life doing absolutely nothing I needed to do. After fuming on it for the rest of the night and the next morning I dropped the class like a hot potato and slid nicely into any on-line version. Now all four of my classes this semester are on-line. Yay!
Aside from that transferring affair, I had one other class transfer I didn't expect. I decided I would attempt to take Speech 101 on-line, because as I mentioned above, public speaking stresses me like nothing else. What this on-line class failed to mention is that I would need video equipment and an audience of five for every repaired speech. I found that gem out just the day before yesterday, dropped the class and took up Psychology and (Physical) Health or some such, the only remaining psych class open. Oh, I knew Speech might not work out, but it was worth a shot. It's a bloody requirement though, so I'll have to deal with the in-class course at some point.
I've also got at least one wrong book for English II, one book I don't need (Speech), one I need to get (psych), and one I'm not sure I ever needed at all as the teacher has informed us that she will be giving us the correct one upon meeting (Math). And since this is Labor Day weekend, that means going in on Tuesday to sort the Mess of Books out.
Now, theoretically, my other three classes start tomorrow, the second. I know it's a Sunday, but all the on-line classes, excepting math courses actually, seem to work on a Sunday-to-Saturday schedule.
That's been school. In other parts of life...
I've joined a gym, I'm not sure I ever mentioned. I joined with my mum about three weeks ago and we've been going almost every-other day. But we've decided to pick up the pace and go every day if we can manage. I really hope we can. This is for weight loss and health purposes.
I have been very behind on my f-list. Both of them, LJ and IJ. I spent yesterday catching up with them both. I now have a good hundred fics bookmarked for reading. *grin* That's just new ones. I have some 200 bookmarked over the past year or so. I never do seem to catch up on that, not that I'm complaining. I always have something to read.
I've taken up knitting again. I haven't knitted in a few months but I started again with a passion. I so far have accomplished a pair of mittens and a strip of an afghan. I'm really quite proud of myself (and my mum) for the afghan. I'm using a pattern of my grandmother's for it, you see, which I had lost, but with an older sample of the pattern we were able to work it out with relative ease. It's admittedly a fairly simple pattern, but I was so relieved to piece it together. It means I haven't lost the pattern after all. *relieved*
There are other new things I'm sure, but they elude me for the moment.
Also, the Jeeves and Wooster love continues. Oh yes.
I've decided to continue with my cross-posting at IJ and LJ because I do have very dear friends not on IJ who I want to keep in touch with. So there it is. The decision happened to be a lot easier than it felt like it would be in the beginning. However fic will not be posted on LJ, though depending on the rating links will be provided.
School will be Taking Up Time, which means I'll be out of touch off and on. I plan to be around, but plans mean nothing to school, I've found.
ETA: Song requests. Please? I'm hoping someone might have the mp3 of any of these:
Gladys Knight - Midnight Train to Georgia
Three Days Grace - Never Too Late
Foo Fighters - Best of You
And two rather vague ones:
Mindfreak theme - I think it's actually called Mindfreak and performed by Criss Angel
This is a partial lyric and I can't find the bloody song. I'm hoping someone will recognize it:
"Revelation
I want to die for you
I want to die for you
I want to be with you"
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I personally detest online classes myself, but that's just because I lack discipline. If I actually drag myself down in person, I'm more likely to pay attention (not sure why, though).
But I hope that your term ends up well! Good luck with it!