Friday, February 25, 2005
Approximately one hour from the current time I must take the Latin exam, about which I know nothing, for I played hooky the past two or three days. Well, I ought to know everything except sentence translations from the last two chapters, plus vocabulary I never bothered to retain. I could cram, but that rarely alleviates much... at about twenty till, I'll review vocabulary and passive verb forms. Regardless of whether I know the material or not, I will inevitably finish the exam within twenty minutes. Then I will play hooky from English, which I have not attended at all this week on account of it being my last, and therefore expendable, class.
During the final ten minutes of German we watched Sesame Street again. The show entertains me more now than it did when I was a little nina- appreciation and age advance together. Mumford auf Deutsch is even funnier than Mumford auf Englisch. I vaguely recalled the other episode, wherein Ernie cannot sleep ("Ich kann nicht schlafen!") and counts sheep at Bert's suggestion- finding that method unsatisfactory, he counts fire engines, to Bert's woe... poor, abused Bert.
Ich habe nicht geschlaft, for Robert's roommate's great grandfather suffered a stroke the other night and is currently brain dead. This affected me because it meant Robert considerately spent the night with his girlfriend, Amy, who happens to be my roommate. Thus, after I went to bed at 11:00 last night, exhausted from studying, Amy and Robert came in and stood discussing the situation for awhile, then continued talking as they turned on the light to look up gym class times on the computer. They did nothing wrong, exactly, but I nevertheless resented their presence, for I had been extremely excited at the prospect of sleep that Amy and Robert unknowingly nipped in the bud. They finally went to bed themselves at twenty till two, by which point I wanted to murder them in a manner not malicious. I already secured a first-floor, single room for next fall.
Next week I shall sign up to schedule a summer campus employment interview- if accepted as a community advisor or a general (orientation) advisor, I receive free meals and board for the summer, und dass ist sehr gut. As I absolutely must take Latin and German, free board definitely dents the loan amounts.
Dass ist alles.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 9:03 AM]