Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Breaking from studying. I have a Middle Egyptian test tomorrow-the first in that class. I am a little nervous and after the outcome of my vocabulary quiz in Hebrew on Monday, I am determined to shake the image of my poor performace off of my mind. I will renew my positive feelings! Good marks equal good feelings all around. 17/20 on my first Middle Egyptian translation/parsing assignment. Not too shabby. Stupid little mistakes though-only good thing about it is that I understand all of the material fully-I just flubbed up by accident on a few things-like underlining something, etc.
Monday I woke up feeling really sluggish. I walked the dog outside, savouring the cool and crisp fall air-but wishing that I had a pair of gloves. I must buy a pair. Middle Egyptian class at 11am-I endevoured to stay focused. I had in fact the night before made up a series of flash-cards for my vocabular on the test with my "Blank Cards" package I purchased last year. My renderings of the hieroglyphs are terrible. Anyway, I went for a quick lunch and came back to Bancroft, wandering into the lounge to try my hand at studying for the vocab quiz in Hebrew at 2. There are usually many people in the lounge on Monday at lunchtime. Staying focused was difficult because for some odd reason, I emerge from my quiet nature into this chatter box that never stops. I think I store all of my talking energy and then lash out at people with it. Anyway, My friend had little luck with quizing me because I hadn't gotten through all of the words on my own. I tried impossibly to cram as many of the words into my mind with quirky little word tricks. I waited until the last possible second to get to class and then wrote a very poor quiz. Oh well, never again will that happen. I tried to do too much homework on the weekend and I wasn't focused in enough on important things like that. I left Hebrew an hour early because it was traumatizing me too much-although I was picked on for the first time to read and parse. Luckily it was from the previous chapter and everyone conveniently didn't have their translations for it, heh heh. Everyone in the class wings the translations because there is simpley too much of it to do.
Suprisingly, I read through it fine and I was able to translate and parse the majority of it on my own. I was suprised.
I was glad I left early though, at the break, because it gave me the chance to zip home to walk the dog outside and wash up. I went back for dinner and went back to Bancroft to attempt filling out some paperwork for my workstudy position. My Mesopotamian Mythology class was next. I enjoy that class because I have so many friends in it. We take up an entire row in the room and this time we occupied the very front row, which was nice. I am always incredibly exhausted by the time this last lecture on Monday is finished. I stumbled to the streetcar in the dark and went home. We watched a movie with popcorn and hotchocolate, me and Rob.
Tuesday, today, I woke up feeling really slugglish again. I think I am forgetting to take my vitamins.
It was 8:15am-I meant to get up way earlier. I rushed to get myself ready and took the dog to Doggy Daycare and then took off to school for breakfast at the dining hall. They were out of my favourite muesli cereal, god damn them. Raisin bran with the raisins plucked out of it-I don't know WHY they don't carry plain bran cereal. I will complain. And some scrambled eggs and fruit and tea and the like. Tea has found its way into all of my meals now that the weather is very cold. There is nothing quite like coming inside from the harsh chill winds for a nice warm cuppa. I went to Bancroft to get my notes back from my friend and then I slowly made my way through the TTC to get to Cabbagetown for my Highland Dancing class-the first since the summer. I took a long break after breaking my toe and then being a poor-ass with no money for a while. Now I have my highland dancing shoes so it was nice to work with them and my teacher was yes, very pleased that I had them.
We just worked on some basic stuff to get me back into things but we are picking away at my form in my two current dances, the fling and the sword. Proper form for every movement is incredibly tiring and difficult. Sometimes I really miss Irish dancing arhg. But, I do really like highland dancing too. Looks like I will probably be doing my bronze medal testings in April for these dances.
I made my way back to campus after the class and had lunch with Rob. Next was work at the department. So, I sleepily walked over to Bancroft and went to the office to finish organizing those files. It was easier to pass the 3 hours this time because 2 grad students were in there working, too, so I had people to talk with. Thus emerged the enigmatic chatter box of Laura. It's funny because even in my writings-I don't feel like writing much more than a few sentences in my blog and such, but once I'm going, I won't stop! I don't really want to talk to people, but if you get me going, you can't turn me off! hm. Anyway, it was nice. But it was/is strange that I talk with this girl like a friend who was my TA in a class last year and graded my papers, haha. She is also in my ceramic petrology class. It's funny how that works-she basically gave me my grade and we're friends now. weeird. Anyway, the professor I am working for seemed pleased with how well I organized everything and so that went well. I am glad that there were people in and out of the office because if I had been alone, I fear what kind of anxious thoughts and feelings may have sprung up at me while I tried to work. The anxiety of course, having to do with my Middle Egyptian test tomorrow, which even as I write I am neglecting to put study time in for due to this excessive CHATTINESS I seem to posess!
At anyrate, to keep to my compulsive need to smooth out the details of my day in my blog, I proceeded to the dining hall for dinner at 4:45pm and met Rob there. The choices were more to my liking today. Roast chicken and roasted potatoes and veggies and there was also vegetarian lasagna. I had both. They give you small portions so you usually have to take 2 helpings most of the time. We picked up Neron from doggydaycare and I encountered a worrying situation. Another guy came in for his yappy dog but accidently let out a dog that was no his from a kennel. A pit bull-like dog. He was very friendly and happy, no problem, but we didn't know how to get him back into the kennel because he didn't respond to anything. Nobody wanted to confront him and pull on his collar-you just don't do that with unknown dogs, they don't trust you. This guy manage to loops a leash around his neck and attach it so-but it was not attached to his collar, but wrapped around and attached to the leash bit-see what I mean?
Which was fine to get him into the kennel it worked but he couldn't take it off without him running out! So he left him in the kennel with it around his neck. This freaked me out but there was nothing I could do to fix it-I couldn't do any better. I wanted to let him out and do something after this guy left but Rob was already out the door with Neron. I worried the entire way back. What if he got himself caught on something.....or what the hell is their owner going to say when they come in and see him?? fuck! They are going to blame the people who run the daycare but it isn't their fault! It was the stupid people who come in after hours with the back door keys to pick their dogs up. The people who run it are so nice. Argh. I am still worried about it. I hope the dog is okay and I wish I did something about it. I'm not sure what i could have done, though. I just hope he is alright and that the owners weren't bloody peeved about it. eek.
Okay so got home and tidied up...My Parsing Guide to the Old Testament came in the mail today. I was very happy with it-it does exactly what I want and will make my translations faster and my life easier.... and then I studied. I must return to the task of studying now. I finished reviewing vocabulary and signs and now I must study some of the grammar.
I'll likely go to bed at midnight on the dot and force myself to get up at 7-7:30, even though it is going to be challenging. But I need to be on campus by 8:30. My test is at 11am and I need all of the study time I can get!
Cheers
Monday I woke up feeling really sluggish. I walked the dog outside, savouring the cool and crisp fall air-but wishing that I had a pair of gloves. I must buy a pair. Middle Egyptian class at 11am-I endevoured to stay focused. I had in fact the night before made up a series of flash-cards for my vocabular on the test with my "Blank Cards" package I purchased last year. My renderings of the hieroglyphs are terrible. Anyway, I went for a quick lunch and came back to Bancroft, wandering into the lounge to try my hand at studying for the vocab quiz in Hebrew at 2. There are usually many people in the lounge on Monday at lunchtime. Staying focused was difficult because for some odd reason, I emerge from my quiet nature into this chatter box that never stops. I think I store all of my talking energy and then lash out at people with it. Anyway, My friend had little luck with quizing me because I hadn't gotten through all of the words on my own. I tried impossibly to cram as many of the words into my mind with quirky little word tricks. I waited until the last possible second to get to class and then wrote a very poor quiz. Oh well, never again will that happen. I tried to do too much homework on the weekend and I wasn't focused in enough on important things like that. I left Hebrew an hour early because it was traumatizing me too much-although I was picked on for the first time to read and parse. Luckily it was from the previous chapter and everyone conveniently didn't have their translations for it, heh heh. Everyone in the class wings the translations because there is simpley too much of it to do.
Suprisingly, I read through it fine and I was able to translate and parse the majority of it on my own. I was suprised.
I was glad I left early though, at the break, because it gave me the chance to zip home to walk the dog outside and wash up. I went back for dinner and went back to Bancroft to attempt filling out some paperwork for my workstudy position. My Mesopotamian Mythology class was next. I enjoy that class because I have so many friends in it. We take up an entire row in the room and this time we occupied the very front row, which was nice. I am always incredibly exhausted by the time this last lecture on Monday is finished. I stumbled to the streetcar in the dark and went home. We watched a movie with popcorn and hotchocolate, me and Rob.
Tuesday, today, I woke up feeling really slugglish again. I think I am forgetting to take my vitamins.
It was 8:15am-I meant to get up way earlier. I rushed to get myself ready and took the dog to Doggy Daycare and then took off to school for breakfast at the dining hall. They were out of my favourite muesli cereal, god damn them. Raisin bran with the raisins plucked out of it-I don't know WHY they don't carry plain bran cereal. I will complain. And some scrambled eggs and fruit and tea and the like. Tea has found its way into all of my meals now that the weather is very cold. There is nothing quite like coming inside from the harsh chill winds for a nice warm cuppa. I went to Bancroft to get my notes back from my friend and then I slowly made my way through the TTC to get to Cabbagetown for my Highland Dancing class-the first since the summer. I took a long break after breaking my toe and then being a poor-ass with no money for a while. Now I have my highland dancing shoes so it was nice to work with them and my teacher was yes, very pleased that I had them.
We just worked on some basic stuff to get me back into things but we are picking away at my form in my two current dances, the fling and the sword. Proper form for every movement is incredibly tiring and difficult. Sometimes I really miss Irish dancing arhg. But, I do really like highland dancing too. Looks like I will probably be doing my bronze medal testings in April for these dances.
I made my way back to campus after the class and had lunch with Rob. Next was work at the department. So, I sleepily walked over to Bancroft and went to the office to finish organizing those files. It was easier to pass the 3 hours this time because 2 grad students were in there working, too, so I had people to talk with. Thus emerged the enigmatic chatter box of Laura. It's funny because even in my writings-I don't feel like writing much more than a few sentences in my blog and such, but once I'm going, I won't stop! I don't really want to talk to people, but if you get me going, you can't turn me off! hm. Anyway, it was nice. But it was/is strange that I talk with this girl like a friend who was my TA in a class last year and graded my papers, haha. She is also in my ceramic petrology class. It's funny how that works-she basically gave me my grade and we're friends now. weeird. Anyway, the professor I am working for seemed pleased with how well I organized everything and so that went well. I am glad that there were people in and out of the office because if I had been alone, I fear what kind of anxious thoughts and feelings may have sprung up at me while I tried to work. The anxiety of course, having to do with my Middle Egyptian test tomorrow, which even as I write I am neglecting to put study time in for due to this excessive CHATTINESS I seem to posess!
At anyrate, to keep to my compulsive need to smooth out the details of my day in my blog, I proceeded to the dining hall for dinner at 4:45pm and met Rob there. The choices were more to my liking today. Roast chicken and roasted potatoes and veggies and there was also vegetarian lasagna. I had both. They give you small portions so you usually have to take 2 helpings most of the time. We picked up Neron from doggydaycare and I encountered a worrying situation. Another guy came in for his yappy dog but accidently let out a dog that was no his from a kennel. A pit bull-like dog. He was very friendly and happy, no problem, but we didn't know how to get him back into the kennel because he didn't respond to anything. Nobody wanted to confront him and pull on his collar-you just don't do that with unknown dogs, they don't trust you. This guy manage to loops a leash around his neck and attach it so-but it was not attached to his collar, but wrapped around and attached to the leash bit-see what I mean?
Which was fine to get him into the kennel it worked but he couldn't take it off without him running out! So he left him in the kennel with it around his neck. This freaked me out but there was nothing I could do to fix it-I couldn't do any better. I wanted to let him out and do something after this guy left but Rob was already out the door with Neron. I worried the entire way back. What if he got himself caught on something.....or what the hell is their owner going to say when they come in and see him?? fuck! They are going to blame the people who run the daycare but it isn't their fault! It was the stupid people who come in after hours with the back door keys to pick their dogs up. The people who run it are so nice. Argh. I am still worried about it. I hope the dog is okay and I wish I did something about it. I'm not sure what i could have done, though. I just hope he is alright and that the owners weren't bloody peeved about it. eek.
Okay so got home and tidied up...My Parsing Guide to the Old Testament came in the mail today. I was very happy with it-it does exactly what I want and will make my translations faster and my life easier.... and then I studied. I must return to the task of studying now. I finished reviewing vocabulary and signs and now I must study some of the grammar.
I'll likely go to bed at midnight on the dot and force myself to get up at 7-7:30, even though it is going to be challenging. But I need to be on campus by 8:30. My test is at 11am and I need all of the study time I can get!
Cheers
