Friday, August 26, 2005

ok now

I dropped that scare-my-socks-off class and replaced it with a much more normal class thank the Lord!!! I feel so much better! Though not exciting, this semester shouldn't be too bad.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

My Mac!!

I got my new mac Monday just in time for me to take it to school! I love it! I have been using it a ton. At this very moment I am sitting in the little cafe here called The Hive in a chair that is actually kinda comfortable. Most of the university furniture isn't but these are long enough for me to sit indian style so they are perfect for my present needs. I needed to take a little break and vent all the stuff that I wrote in the last post and blogging seemed like the thing to do. It is so nice being able to sit any place I want to! They haven't gotten the wireless completely updated yet so I can't sit anywhere outside, just outside of an academic building. My delight in this my new mac is not to be deminished by such trifles however. It is beautiful!!!

Asia

The first day of classes over with and I am scared out of my skin. Seriously. My first classes of the day, Prison Epistles and Hebrew, were fine but the last one, History and Politics of Asia, is going to give me ulcers. The prof. sees class time as a time for discussion (graded of couse) while the real learning takes place in personal study. Several hours per class period he said. Of his own admission he is not merciful and his class is more important than any other class or relationship you may have. Some other people that have had him before said the same thing. In some ways the homework is cool but there is just so much of it. You basically become an expert on one country and you make a website on it that you make daily updates on. Every once in awhile you have to give like 16 single spaced page reports on your countrys current status in every area of life and you have to keep up with everyone elses and other reading for the daily morning quizzes. There's more but I don't remember it all at present. Maybe I'm just a pansy butt but this has me really worried.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Memory?

I'm losing it. Or I just didn't have much to begin with. I have been thinking that when I get married I should marry someone older because we will probably end up in the assisted living or nursing home at the same time. Otherwise I am going before him.:( Anyway, the event that inspired my present bablings(sp?) took place this morning when I made banana bread from some frozen bananas that I needed to get out of Rob and Eliza's freezer. In the middle I had to go get eggs because I forgot to check and see if we had any first. Then when I got back my mind was all on eggs. So I finished the stuff and it was a new recipe, but the batter is just the weirdest I've ever seen. Then as I am putting it in the oven it hits me that this soupy mixture is never going to cook because the flour is still sitting out untouched. Besides the initial feelings of idiocy:), I was also brought to the dreaded realization that this is only going to get worse as I get older. That means that when I'm old I'm not going to remember that I left out the flour until after I've cooked it for hours, if I remember at all! Well, one nice thing about poor memory is that those unpleasant realizations are easily and quickly forgotten! Before long I will continue along in my happy summer existance!!