Monday, August 30, 2004
Classes finally started today... I was getting stir-crazy. Events went as follows:
Art Appreciation, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
The instructor handed out his syllabus, spent about ten minutes reviewing his requirements, and dismissed the class until Wednesday. He mentioned that as a professional/studio artist he schedules showings and out-of-town trips on Fridays; therefore, I never have class on Fridays, but I still receive those credit hours. Ausgezeichnet.Logic, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
The instructor is Korean, but he enunciates well and seems to work hard to make himself understood. He also has a good sense of humour. I suspect I will like the class, even if I don't understand half of the material.Classical Mythology, 12:00-12:50 p.m.
This class is humongous, because people take it to fulfill a humanities requirement. I looked around for people who might also be Classics majors, but all I got were schmos. I am a snob. My instructor seems more than competent, and the two TAs look very Catholic. All the Classics people look Catholic to me, whatever that means. I imagine them diligently reading Mass. The class itself will be interesting.Soon I shall return to my dorm, eat linner (lunch/dinner; April calls it "lupper", she of the freaky regionalisms), and make call-backs to the businesses at which I applied for jobs last week. At 4:30 the Speech and Debate Club holds its first meeting, to which I shall journey (for something to do, if nothing else). I'd like to compete part-time, like I did during high school. I never practiced, but I enjoyed talking uninterrupted for ten minutes to people I did not know.
The computer lab smells like fried food.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 11:47 AM]