The most convoluted post. Plus side? New classes!!

So, ladies and gents, back to university tomorrow...A month really isn't enough time off, lol. Although, truth be told, if I had had more time I still wouldn't have done any of the things I needed to do i.e. properly organise my shelves, unpack the last bits of crap in my room, other things I should have done but can't remember right now.

I don't have to be in at uni tomorrow (ordinarily I would have a class at 1pm but it doesn't start until next week. Pointless) so I'm just going in to borrow a couple of books for one of my classes and buy my various texts and suchlike. As much as I dig shopping for books and getting my readers and all that, I'm not super fond of standing in queues for three hours (no exaggeration, either) and it'll suck ass tomorrow because it's going to rain. Like it's been raining for what feels like the last forty days and nights. I'm considering building an ark but I need to find someone with larger cubits than mine.

As for classes, I am -- as usual -- doing two English and two Linguistics courses:

• ENGL2640: Shakespeare. We're reading five of the Bard's plays (Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus and The Winter's Tale) which will be cool. Of those five, I've only done Hamlet (over and over again), and I kind of chose it because I don't have a decent working knowledge of Shakespeare's works and I feel I should. I could talk almost endlessly about his life, lol, and a tad about his sonnets (which are beautiful, by the way), but I couldn't say much about his plays.
• ENGL2659: 18th Century: Scandal and Sociability. There are four texts to be read and I've not read a single one, so I'm looking forward to that. It's a good thing I like reading, lol. The text for this class are: The Adventures of Rivella by Delarivier Manley, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, Pamela by Samuel Richardson and Millennium Hall by Sarah Scott (the very pious, very married, very lesbian author who is now very dead. SCANDAL!!). If any of you lovely things have read any of these books, let me know!!!
• LNGS2621: Phonology. Not to be confused with last semester's irritating (but still kind of cool) Phonetics class. Phonology deals with the sound systems of a language (or of languages) whereas Phonetics deals with the sounds themselves and how they are produced. A kind of confusing difference but an interesting one.
• LNGS2602: Syntax. This is the one I've been waiting for (well, this and Morphology which isn't on this semester). Syntax, as lots of you probably know, is the arrangement of words and phrases to construct grammatically correct sentences. It's very exciting, lol, and a bit of fun. One gets to break down a sentence into its base components and word classes and build syntax trees from there...They're reasonably simple, they make sense and they don't make my brain hurt like the trees we had to do in Functional Grammar (which I passed by the absolute skin of my teeth and never have to do again).

So, that's that for this semester, really. I'm kind of hoping to not have a repeat of last semester, but if my marks have told me anything it's that I can skate by on my natural brilliance (and it is brilliant, lol) without a whole lot of effort and still pass my classes...I mean, yes, just pass, in the case of last semester, but pass nonetheless. Laziness triumphs again!!!!

Today I went with my mother to a Nike outlet store (I love those things) where I bought myself two new pair of shoes...At 30% off! I loves me a great bargain, lol. I also got a few things to start my Christmas shopping. I'm aware that it's only July, but it won't be for long and I don't want to be stuck in the fortnight before Chrissie without having bought anyone anything. My strategy is to buy stuff as I see it this year. Let's hope all goes well.

Anyway, new shoes for a new semester...Which is really going to suck if it rains tomorrow. Which it will. Because that's all it's done for days. Damn rain.
I do hope that the weather is great wherever you all are xox