Finals Update - 4

I finished my French final in half and hour. No more tests! I just need to write two more pages for my philosophy paper, edit my biblit paper and turn them all in. (Oh and finish packing of course.) Right now I'm taking a break to go to Café Presse with Eddy.

Last Day!

Today was my last day of classes for the year. I'm a little sad about that, but I'm excited for the summer and next year! Things are going pretty smoothly final-wise. My biblit paper is mostly finished (I just want to go through and edit it a little bit) as is the take-home test for that class (turned it in today). I took my French oral exam today and il a été fantastique! My French final is on Wednesday at noon, but I've been studying for that over the weekend and it shouldn't be hard. The last big thing I have to do is finish up my philosophy paper (5.5 pages) but I'll have all of tomorrow and most of Wednesday to get it done.

As per tradition, today was Senior Streak Day. I missed it last year, so Eddy and I made sure to go to the quad to watch this time. It was definitely entertaining.

Paper Update

3 pages down, 7 more to go! (Only 5 if I'm going for the minimum, but the way I've outlined it, it should work out to be 9.5-10) I figure if I write a page or so day this week, I'll have it done by the weekend, giving me plenty of time to write my philosophy paper and study for my French exams.

I am also apparently channeling my inner Kafka and writing gigantically long paragraphs. Good times.

Ugh

Today, one the school washing machines decided not to go through the rinse/ spin cycle - leaving my clothes sopping wet - one of the dryers ate my quarters, proceeded to leave my clothes wet after 80 minutes of drying and then ate more of my quarters. It's raining, I locked myself out of my room and the library gave me the third volume of a book that I put on hold instead of the third.

Today had so much promise! Blarghl

Random

Things Today:

I went to the gym for the first time. I've been meaning to go for ages, but I finally got my butt out of bed early today and went for about half an hour. I felt really good afterward though, so I'm going to try to go again sometime this week.

I register for classes tomorrow, yikes! I've become really paranoid since registration last quarter was so awful, but I think I'll be able to get the classes I want this time. Hopefully!

I'm meeting with Dr. Earenfight - the chair of the Medieval Studies department - this afternoon to talk to her about history classes and how to officially declare a minor. I have what lit classes I want to take in the next couple of years down, but I really want to take at least one history class. She's apparently an awesome professor, so I hope I'll be able to take something with her.

Hmm, I think that's it for today...

Interview

Well, I think that went well. It was a little weird though, because the student consultants were the ones interviewing me, so I was interviewed by a guy in my philosophy class. Hopefully I didn't say anything too stupid. I think I'll hear whether or not I got the position next week. Here's hoping!

FREAKOUT!

My interview is in 45 minutes and right now I'm sitting in my room flailing my arms and going "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

Good times.

Plague!

Apparently the swine flu has broken out in Seattle (with 3 people) and I've already seen someone wearing one of those face mask dealies on campus. I love how people are freaking out and the article in the Seattle Times keeps saying to make sure to wash your hands. I know that this is actually good advice, but it seems like such an insignificant way to prevent plague.

Le Francais

Somehow, when I came up with the brilliant idea to squeak a French minor into my schedule, I managed to miss the fact that in order to do so I'd have to get 15 credits (a quarter's worth) studying abroad. Hmph. Sadly, I know this won't be possible, so I've been revising my plans for the next two years. We'll see what happens.

Teh Interwebs

We're learning some internet related vocab in French, which somehow lead to us having to explain to Professeur GG what icanhascheezburger is. The idea of cat pictures with funny captions is really bizarre to those unfamiliar to it. Hilarity of course ensued.

Yee-haw! Pt 2

I finally heard back from the Writing Center and I have an interview on Friday! I was really getting worried about that...

Yee-haw!

Well, it's become a gorgeous sunny day and I just rocked two tests. The French one was super easy as usual and I finished it in half an hour. I was one of the last two writing during my philosophy test, but I knew what I was talking about and had a lot to say, so that's not a bad thing! The poor guy sitting next to me though seemed pretty panicked. Oh well.

Now, unfortunately, I'm going to try to get a tetanus shot because I keep get threatening emails about it. No fun.

Blech

Today I have two tests, one worth 25% of my grade (philosophy) and I have absolutely no motivation to get out of bed. It's too gray to go outside. Blurgh.

Poetry

Back from the Medieval poetry reading. It was awesome! It was a bunch of SU professors reading in Old Norse, Medieval Czech, Polish, Welsh, Latin, Catalan and of course Old and Middle English (swoon). A couple of students read as well, so maybe I'll get to next year or the year after.

Now I really want to read Beowulf again...

Opera

One of the greatest things about going to Seattle U is that they quite frequently offer really cheap tickets to go do things around Seattle. So, for 60 bucks, Eddy and I are getting two tickets for front row seats to see The Marriage of Figaro at the Seattle Opera - tickets that normally cost between $115-$150 each. I am so stoked.

Lasers!

Tonight I'm going (for free and through SU!) to see Laser Queen at the Seattle Laser Dome. I know you all are jealous.

School Stuff

So, I went and talked to Dr. Koppelman today (my favorite prof and one of the Medievalists in the English department) to ask her some questions about the Medieval Studies minor and what kind of things would be helpful for grad school. At her recommendation, I have officially decided that I'm going to minor in French as well as Medieval Studies. I was kind of on the fence before about the French - I like French, but it's not my favorite subject in the world - but since both of my French professors have told me that I should definitely continue with it and now Dr. K is saying that it will be good for grad school, I'm going to go for it. I'll have to overload for all of next year, but I really don't think it will be that bad.

So for the Medieval Studies minor I'm going to take:
Arthurian Romances (Lit 5 credits)
Chaucer (Lit 5 credits)
Medieval Sexualities (Lit 5 credits)
Medieval Philosophy (Phil 5 credits)
Some sort of Medieval History (Hist 5 credits)
Latin I,II,III (Lang 10 credits. For some reason Latin I doesn't count. Who knows why)
That's 35 credits and I think my Intro to British Lit I class counts, so really that'll be 40 credits. I only need 30, so there's some leeway here. All the lit classes will count towards my major too.

For French I'll just need to take French IV,V,VI and a culture class, so 20 credits.

I'm excited!

Descisions, Descisions

So I'm thinking about selling this sucker back to bookstore, which makes me really sad for some reason. I can't really think of a good reason to keep it, other than the fact that I've grown irrationally attached to it. Sure, it's full of interesting texts that I'll probably want to read again, but it's over 3,000 pages, so I'm not very likely to just pull it out of my purse and read it on the bus. If I don't sell it back, it will more than likely just languish on my bookshelf for years until I finally get rid of it.

I'd probably get $20 for it - 10 americanos at Stumptown, though in reality I'd probably give the money to Dad, being the one who paid for it originally. Descisions, Descisions. I keep giving myself ridiculous reasons not to sell it back: I'd have to take all the color coded sticky notes out! It has my inane scribblings in it, that I really don't want other people to read!

I have until Friday to sell it back. We'll see what happens.