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I got woke up an hour earlier than I planned after a night of not-sleeping and mood crash.
And then I went to college.
And did all the lessons.
And was only mildly grouchy, in a fairly controlled way. I think. Probably.
... I didn't get kicked out or anything, I'm doing fine.
Actually it has been about 15 years since I last got kicked out of a lesson.
Considerable less since I ran away and hid, but even then, maybe 7 years?
Cool.
Myth & Med moved on to the Medieval portion of the semester.
I bought the text specified in the available course materials.
That turns out to be wrong.
We're not meant to be reading a translation, we're meant to be reading Chaucer's English.
I'm going to take a lot of convincing on that one. Because we're studying English. As in, stuff we can actually read.
But is okay, cause I found a website that has both versions.
Class today was a bit rubbish. I'm beginning to see why the other students aren't best pleased with it. We get handouts, we watch DVDs, we do working in groups. There doesn't seem to be much of that as requires presence of teacher. Especially since teacher spent considerable of minutes - I'm talking tens not ones - not-finding handouts, running to get more photocopies, and failing to make the DVD work.
KidLit wasn't rubbish. We did postcolonialism in 5 minutes. That's nifty.
Also we covered some of the aristotle words I can never remember. Maybe I'll remember them better about Mr Toad.
... or not.
I do not like Wind in the Willows. I want the Weasels to win. Stupid Mr Toad wasn't using his house and got sent to prison so why shouldn't they move in?
... it is possible I really really need some sleep.
I missed the bus on the way home by about 30 seconds and so found that after 1920 they only arrive once an hour. Thankfully I did catch the 1920.
Also there was fog. Do Not Want. I wore my shiny arm bands - I like my shiny arm bands, though I'd like my shiny dragon more except I obviously got the wrong sort for going on jackets and it fell off almost immediately. I also got my torch out and shone it places. Did you know that when there is fog there is also fog in the under the road tunnels? Yes. I know it's obvious. I just never knew that from observation before.
Excellent spooky. Must use in fiction now.
In good news, my MP3 player works as planned. I listened to one of the Sarah Jane Adventures CDs, half on the way there and half on the way back. Coolness.
Also I decided by the time I got home I was Very Hungry Indeed, so I got Chinese take away again, even though I'm not entirely sure it's food by usual definitions, seeming to be made quite a lot of grease and unidentified black bits. I decided to work on the principle that everything in the container for food was in fact food and scoffed the lot. Grease and noodles tastes gooooood.
And then I went to college.
And did all the lessons.
And was only mildly grouchy, in a fairly controlled way. I think. Probably.
... I didn't get kicked out or anything, I'm doing fine.
Actually it has been about 15 years since I last got kicked out of a lesson.
Considerable less since I ran away and hid, but even then, maybe 7 years?
Cool.
Myth & Med moved on to the Medieval portion of the semester.
I bought the text specified in the available course materials.
That turns out to be wrong.
We're not meant to be reading a translation, we're meant to be reading Chaucer's English.
I'm going to take a lot of convincing on that one. Because we're studying English. As in, stuff we can actually read.
But is okay, cause I found a website that has both versions.
Class today was a bit rubbish. I'm beginning to see why the other students aren't best pleased with it. We get handouts, we watch DVDs, we do working in groups. There doesn't seem to be much of that as requires presence of teacher. Especially since teacher spent considerable of minutes - I'm talking tens not ones - not-finding handouts, running to get more photocopies, and failing to make the DVD work.
KidLit wasn't rubbish. We did postcolonialism in 5 minutes. That's nifty.
Also we covered some of the aristotle words I can never remember. Maybe I'll remember them better about Mr Toad.
... or not.
I do not like Wind in the Willows. I want the Weasels to win. Stupid Mr Toad wasn't using his house and got sent to prison so why shouldn't they move in?
... it is possible I really really need some sleep.
I missed the bus on the way home by about 30 seconds and so found that after 1920 they only arrive once an hour. Thankfully I did catch the 1920.
Also there was fog. Do Not Want. I wore my shiny arm bands - I like my shiny arm bands, though I'd like my shiny dragon more except I obviously got the wrong sort for going on jackets and it fell off almost immediately. I also got my torch out and shone it places. Did you know that when there is fog there is also fog in the under the road tunnels? Yes. I know it's obvious. I just never knew that from observation before.
Excellent spooky. Must use in fiction now.
In good news, my MP3 player works as planned. I listened to one of the Sarah Jane Adventures CDs, half on the way there and half on the way back. Coolness.
Also I decided by the time I got home I was Very Hungry Indeed, so I got Chinese take away again, even though I'm not entirely sure it's food by usual definitions, seeming to be made quite a lot of grease and unidentified black bits. I decided to work on the principle that everything in the container for food was in fact food and scoffed the lot. Grease and noodles tastes gooooood.