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Random Ranting IX
Apr. 20th, 2004 09:38 pmIn the German way of writing dates, today is 20.04.2004... not quite as cool as 04/04/04, but close. I think.
Quote of the Day, discovered in the preface to Jane Eyre:
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. [...] Men too often confound them: they should ot be confounded; appearance should not be mistaken for truth...
~"Currer Bell" a.k.a. Charlotte Bronte
My schedule, for now:
Monday
- Introduction to Linguistics, Part A
Tuesday
- Literature Part B: "Plotting the Self"
- Reading Course Lecture
- Network Analysis
Wednesday
- Lecture: English Drama
- Lecture: Bilingualism
- Symbolic Aspects of Architecture
Thursday
- Lecture: Kalevala
- Regional Ethnography
- The Meaning of Art for Cultural Anthropology
Friday
- Cognition and Memory
Yeah, right. And even if I stick with this, I am below the average number of classes per week. And, to put it mildly, it's more than likely that I will kick the lectures at some point. Gah.
Talking about lectures, I'll get a whole lot of them this weekend, because, in some
very courageous moment, I signed up for the Tolkien seminar. That's going to be interesting, though, and I'm not sure whether I can say that about all of the above-mentioned classes...
Network Analysis, for example. It seems ok, but I dread the thought of having to do a presentation and write a paper on it. However, if I don't do that, I'll have to take it into my examinations, and that's even more dreadful.
Or "Plotting the Self": Topic is interesting enough, books are ok, but the class! Half of them seems to never have done a presentation in their entire lives. They don't know what a term paper is; they speak so softly you can hardly hear them, especially as everyone else is talking; and they stole![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kaneda's and my favorite topic, the filthy little thieves!
Decisions, decisions. What to do about my birthday? Because that day is relentlessly drawing nearer, and I have too many options. Our flat most likely won't be ready then, so a home party is out of the question. Now I could just spend the day here with Jörg, who has to prepare for his exam. Or I could attend my Fellowship's meeting, which I really want to, but Jörg isn't convinced he wants to come along, and spend my birthday without him? Or we just drive to my grandfather's, who, incidentally, was born on the same day (though not, of course, the same year). I know which option I like best, but do I know for which one to decide? No...
But he will come along to see Kill Bill Volume I and II tomorrow.
seefuchs now owns The Wake. Soooo beautiful!
Had tomato salad for supper. How I miss the big, juicy South African tomatoes that, actually, tasted like more than water with a few random aromates.
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( Zusammenhangloses IX )
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Quote of the Day, discovered in the preface to Jane Eyre:
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. [...] Men too often confound them: they should ot be confounded; appearance should not be mistaken for truth...
~"Currer Bell" a.k.a. Charlotte Bronte
My schedule, for now:
Monday
- Introduction to Linguistics, Part A
Tuesday
- Literature Part B: "Plotting the Self"
- Reading Course Lecture
- Network Analysis
Wednesday
- Lecture: English Drama
- Lecture: Bilingualism
- Symbolic Aspects of Architecture
Thursday
- Lecture: Kalevala
- Regional Ethnography
- The Meaning of Art for Cultural Anthropology
Friday
- Cognition and Memory
Yeah, right. And even if I stick with this, I am below the average number of classes per week. And, to put it mildly, it's more than likely that I will kick the lectures at some point. Gah.
Talking about lectures, I'll get a whole lot of them this weekend, because, in some
very courageous moment, I signed up for the Tolkien seminar. That's going to be interesting, though, and I'm not sure whether I can say that about all of the above-mentioned classes...
Network Analysis, for example. It seems ok, but I dread the thought of having to do a presentation and write a paper on it. However, if I don't do that, I'll have to take it into my examinations, and that's even more dreadful.
Or "Plotting the Self": Topic is interesting enough, books are ok, but the class! Half of them seems to never have done a presentation in their entire lives. They don't know what a term paper is; they speak so softly you can hardly hear them, especially as everyone else is talking; and they stole
kaneda's and my favorite topic, the filthy little thieves!Decisions, decisions. What to do about my birthday? Because that day is relentlessly drawing nearer, and I have too many options. Our flat most likely won't be ready then, so a home party is out of the question. Now I could just spend the day here with Jörg, who has to prepare for his exam. Or I could attend my Fellowship's meeting, which I really want to, but Jörg isn't convinced he wants to come along, and spend my birthday without him? Or we just drive to my grandfather's, who, incidentally, was born on the same day (though not, of course, the same year). I know which option I like best, but do I know for which one to decide? No...
But he will come along to see Kill Bill Volume I and II tomorrow.
seefuchs now owns The Wake. Soooo beautiful!Had tomato salad for supper. How I miss the big, juicy South African tomatoes that, actually, tasted like more than water with a few random aromates.
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( Zusammenhangloses IX )
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