Seven days and counting.
So, today I headed to uni to get this craziness with my timetable sorted, and sorted it was. Well, sort of. I still have a clash (when will I be free of clashes?! Why can't I just go about my week like a normal person?!) and I had a choice of where the clash was going to be, which I guess was kind of nice. I had a choice of a clash between my Phonetics lecture and my Varieties of English Grammar tutorial, or a clash between said tutorial and my Reading Poetry lecture. I had to go with the latter option because most of the lecture theatres at my university are wired to record and store each lecture so you can listen to them online later (thank God for Lectopia), so I can sort of deal with that, whereas I really can't miss lectures about phonetics because, you know, you can't get a good enough grip on the information via a recording...IPA symbols rely on your vision as well as your sense of sound, lol.
Hurrah for me an having a three day weekend again :) I love having Fridays off, but it's kind of compensation for the gaps and weirdnesses that occur elsewhere in my timetable...Like Thursday, for example, where I'm at uni from 11am to 7pm but with a gap between 3-6pm. Reminiscent of my timetable from first semester last year -- three hours to kill where a sensible person would sit in the library and get some work done...Or read and drink coffee. At least with my being on campus so late,
roguemyth and I can do coffee beforehand and/or dinner and travel home after. It'll be nice having people to talk to this semester. But not nice for her, lol, because she's got all night classes (poor Dr. K, xx).Anyways, so the subjects are this and are no longer subject to change...Or not by me, anyhow:
- Varieties of English Grammar, as taught by an awesome lecturer I had last semester named Dr. Nick Reimer (I think). He's super dry (grammar, der), but very funny when it comes down to it. He uses all the weird little examples to illustrate his points, like this one which made me laugh out loud during a lecture; To demonstrate active and passive sentences: "Sylvain killed Henri with a baguette," and "Henri was killed by Sylvain's baguette." Either way, it's bad for Henri all round.
- Reading Poetry, as taught by someone I don't know, but it's poetry so how bad can it be? Lol. I'm looking forward to it, I think. Interesting subject and it helps me fill out my major ;) AND it justifies my deep desire for a copy of the Norton Anthology of Poetry.
- Functional Grammar, not to be confused with the other grammar subject. This one is a linguistics course which focusses on the grammars of other languages, rather than just English grammar as with the first subject. Should be fun, lol ("grammar" and "fun" in the same sentence still makes me laugh), but sometimes even to me that looks like death by grammar. I hope I don't get too sick of it.
- And lastly, Phonetics, as taught by the slightly mad and vaguely stern (but also hilarious) Dr. Toni Borowsky (Pron. "Borovsky"). I had her last semester as well for...Something...For, uh, some sociolinguistics course, lol. Wow, that says volumes. But seriously, she's a great lecturer and likes to speak really softly to make the bajillion people in the lecture theatre shut up and listen. A little passive-aggressive, but I like it, lol.
Urgh. I was only out for a few hours today, but much of it was spent travelling and standing in lines. Stupid waiting in a queue. And my brain and eyes haven't really recovered from playing the Sims 3 for about eight hours yesterday...Maybe it was longer...Anyway, I'm tired and have a headache and I don't want this post to be any longer than it really needs to be. Damn, and I still have to compile a booklist for all the crap I have to get...I knew I forgot something.
P.S. I enrolled in my Intro to Fencing short course dealie today too, after much to-ing and fro-ing. $145 down (thank God for youth allowance) for an hour a week for nine weeks. I had the choice of three days: I think Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. I had a look and neither Monday and Wednesday fit into my weird timetable so Saturday won...12-1 Saturday afternoons. It'll give me a break from all that studying I'll be doing ;)