Friday, March 10, 2006
We discussed sociolinguistics before and after Greek class today. The class is small (about ten people) and conducive to such open digressions around reading through the chapter exercises. After class Dr. Holland and I spoke for a few minutes about German, he mentioning a book he sometimes uses, An diesem Dienstag, to orient his mind when he finds he must read something somewhere auf Deutsch. It is supposed to be post-war literature, die immer viel Spaß macht.
Before Greek I spent about forty minutes chatting with a girl (Jennifer) with whom I am enrolled in both the German classes. We have in common many things, including an abhorrent hatred for Lubbock, an aversion to our respective university jobs (she is a student assistant in the foreign languages building), and massive voids where Eike once lived. We giggled together over the realization that we could have been using that time to complete the German essay due in class this afternoon at two, but were instead discussing our problems with learning German.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 10:54 AM]