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anghraineTo commemorate the auspicious beginning of another glorious ... academic year, I'm already behind on everything.
-- I'm only about eighty pages into The Lamplighter, which we're reading for Women's Lit (note: it's 500-something pages long).
-- Speaking of Women's Lit, it turns out it's the same class I took a year ago, from the same professor -- the uni decided it was worthy of being an upper-division course. Given that we read ten novels in that one, along with various short stories, critical essays etc etc (though none of them were five hundred pages long), I can't help but agree with their assessment. My professor recognised me (a year later, after being in a class of seventy ... but I might have been slightly memorable), and spoke to me after class: I get to read different works (by the same authors) and, since I'm such a spectacular student, deliver ten-minute presentations on them.
First up: Mansfield Park, next week. I haven't started it yet. (This time. Obviously I've read it before.)
-- I tested into Spanish 201 when I signed up for 102, so I skipped 103 and just went for 201. It's not terribly difficult, but I've forgotten a bit after the summer of insanity. On the upside, we're starting witheasy simple basic stuff like ser vs estar (WE GO OVER IT IN EVERY SINGLE CLASS) and gerunds, and on the further upside, we don't really have homework this weekend, so I can try to catch up. Also, we watched this corto called Mementos de Estación, which was lulzy. And JUST A DREAM.
-- Human Sexuality is interesting. The one vaguely conservative person dropped out after two or three classes. I think he got tired of being corrected by young whippersnappers. (But seriously, he sounded like he was reciting every bingo card of fail.) The text actually includes asexuality in its chart of sexuality ... while completely ignoring their existence at every other point, and insisting that any lack of desire for sex is HSDD. It doesn't even make distress (on either side) a requirement, like the DSM, and that's faily enough.
Oh, speaking of DSM fail, this: http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevisions/Pages/proposedrevision.aspx?rid=473#
>_<
-- I still haven't managed to post the FI epilogue. I keep meaning to, but first there was Luke-my-nephew, then my best friend stopped by on his tour of Oregon. And we had a great time, but between that and school and working on papers ... yeah.
-- I've been trying to repost my stories at AO3 and another place, but I haven't done any of them since classes started. See above.
-- I haven't exercised in ... two weeks, or something.
-- I haven't figured out what to do about the bizarro plagiarism. I'll probably do nothing and just be irritated, since it's a bit late now, but ... I don't know, maybe I'll get around to it.
-- I haven't managed to write anything, not even the little snippets of meta-fic. Ack.
-- I kept wondering what was up with everyone else, since I never seemed to see anybody online. Then, of course, I realised that I'm the one on (mostly) radio silence.
-- I'm only about eighty pages into The Lamplighter, which we're reading for Women's Lit (note: it's 500-something pages long).
-- Speaking of Women's Lit, it turns out it's the same class I took a year ago, from the same professor -- the uni decided it was worthy of being an upper-division course. Given that we read ten novels in that one, along with various short stories, critical essays etc etc (though none of them were five hundred pages long), I can't help but agree with their assessment. My professor recognised me (a year later, after being in a class of seventy ... but I might have been slightly memorable), and spoke to me after class: I get to read different works (by the same authors) and, since I'm such a spectacular student, deliver ten-minute presentations on them.
First up: Mansfield Park, next week. I haven't started it yet. (This time. Obviously I've read it before.)
-- I tested into Spanish 201 when I signed up for 102, so I skipped 103 and just went for 201. It's not terribly difficult, but I've forgotten a bit after the summer of insanity. On the upside, we're starting with
-- Human Sexuality is interesting. The one vaguely conservative person dropped out after two or three classes. I think he got tired of being corrected by young whippersnappers. (But seriously, he sounded like he was reciting every bingo card of fail.) The text actually includes asexuality in its chart of sexuality ... while completely ignoring their existence at every other point, and insisting that any lack of desire for sex is HSDD. It doesn't even make distress (on either side) a requirement, like the DSM, and that's faily enough.
Oh, speaking of DSM fail, this: http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevisions/Pages/proposedrevision.aspx?rid=473#
>_<
-- I still haven't managed to post the FI epilogue. I keep meaning to, but first there was Luke-my-nephew, then my best friend stopped by on his tour of Oregon. And we had a great time, but between that and school and working on papers ... yeah.
-- I've been trying to repost my stories at AO3 and another place, but I haven't done any of them since classes started. See above.
-- I haven't exercised in ... two weeks, or something.
-- I haven't figured out what to do about the bizarro plagiarism. I'll probably do nothing and just be irritated, since it's a bit late now, but ... I don't know, maybe I'll get around to it.
-- I haven't managed to write anything, not even the little snippets of meta-fic. Ack.
-- I kept wondering what was up with everyone else, since I never seemed to see anybody online. Then, of course, I realised that I'm the one on (mostly) radio silence.