I was supposed to watch a movie tonight on disney channel... about this little girl that wanted to dance and win some contest... yeah... I know... I'm a little kid... jiji...
Ready for the sad part? I forgot. I was too busy missing Q (sweetie, you definitely owe me a chick flick...muajajajaja) and since watching movies on Sunday night isn't a part of my normal schedule, I completely forgot about it. LoL. I forgot to watch my movie :o)!! Ah well... at least I get to watch Heroes tomorrow night.
It seems everybody is going nuts with final projects and papers and presentations and tests and all sorts of crazy end-of-the semester stress. My semester isn't quite yet ending... so I guess I get to stress a bit later.. hehe.. dunno if that's gonna turn out to be such great news, but at least I'm not freaking out right now... hehe...
But good luck to all of you smart, hard working people, and may your every drop of effort be blessed.
I'm gonna keep studying for Greek... hehe... wanna make sure I end up stressing as little as possible...
yup. back to Greek. Good luck you guys!!!
domingo, noviembre 26, 2006
sábado, noviembre 25, 2006
¡Felíz Día del Pavo!
¿Ké ondas gente? Aki todo bien... acabo de dejar al chico en el aeropuerto... sniff.. sniff.. ya se me acabaron las vacas. triste, triste historia, pero pues ...nimodos. bueno, pues aki va una pequeña... diminuta... muy corta reseña de mis patoaventuras. en inglés para los ke no hablan suficiente español para leer esto, como Janie y la familia de mi niño. akí les va!
We had a rainy Thanksgiving Day. And the boy’s airplane seemed to have been a bit on the sluggish side: it put the boy and all other passengers through what I’d call slow torture (some 30 min of turbulence) and submitted me to its outright tardiness (hmm… 1hr, 15 min., and 34.3 sec. late, according to my phone). The flight info tv screens failed to display a change in flight numbers and/or time of arrival… and I was freaking out by the time he got here. After the “You look great, I’m so happy you’re here / I’m so happy to be here” hugs and kisses, I was still nervous enough to drum his shoulder playfully and ask why on earth was he so late, (you know, with that little nagging childish voice women get sometimes? hehe..) as if he were to blame. He says he’d told me about the time change. And he did… like 3 different times… with 3 different flights. By the time he got into a plane I had apparently gotten confused as to which flight was coming when…and with what special passenger on board. LoL… but ah well… I forgot about it in a second. I was just so glad he was here. He’d walked out to the reception area on his own (sluggish passengers too?). Clean shaved and wearing grey and black, his hands tucked in his pockets. Smiling despite the little flight adventure…
He’s such a positive person. At least today’s flight seems to have started off a bit better. Although the little self-service machine did not provide us with the assurance of a boarding pass (I think we were too early, so it only produced a strange little “you’re-checked in-so-you-can-go-beyond-security-check-but-you-don’t-have-a-seat-number-yet-so-you-probably-need-to-talk-to-a-gate-clerk” paper thingy), he did get into his original flight and will hopefully get home without further ado.
But back to the rainy Thanksgiving Day. It rained nonstop. I am not kidding. All day, since God only knows what time in the morning, and at least until the minute I fell asleep that night. We had done a nice little bit of reading/studying on Wednesday, so we refused to be productive on freaking Thanksgiving Day, even if it was rainy outside and there wasn’t much to do indoors. We had breakfast, and then we watched TV and called our families… We had lots of fun trying to make lasagna (which turned out pretty good, by the way!)… and we ended up having a Thanksgiving Lunch. I think that was because we were supposed to go to the movies, seeing as we had passed on it the night before. The rain did make us a bit hum… sick-o-phobic :P… and we ended up staying indoors for a good while, watching more tv, drinking tea, coffee, hot chocolate and eating fresas con crema… and since my roommates were out on their own Thanksgiving dinners, we were home alone! We had the fridge all for ourselves, the tv all for ourselves, and most importantly, the heater’s control all for ourselves. We totally turned that thing up. LoL. I think my roommates are a bit too money conscious when it comes to the heater. Or maybe they really just don’t ever get cold!? But Q and I were sick of carrying a little cobijita around. Jiji…
And then we really got crazy. LoL. Right after we’d turned up the heater and had just had a cup of tea and.. hehe.. turned off the tv. It is dangerous to turn that thing off. We went out. In the rain. In the cold, pouring rain. We layered up and put on boots and water-proof jackets and we each took an umbrella… and we went out for a walk and of course got completely soaked! Not surprisingly, everything else but the Chinese restaurant was closed. So we had a nice and warm Chinese Thanksgiving Dinner. And we were not (at all!) the only people there! …and we did not get sick either :) We had a blast. And then it was back to the scorching heat of my mischievous little wall thermometer. lol. 70◦. But after walking back in the rain I seriously felt like I should have read a 3-digit number.
And then of course I got used to it and got cold again.
Lots of fun. We did have a lot of fun… we went to the movies, we ate out, we walked around, we cooked and ate and rejoiced in our hw, and we even got my remote control to work again (well, he did… hehe.. el interés tiene piés, diría mi Papá. Jijiji…). We caught up, and talked, and read and watched tv and all that fun stuff.
We didn’t eat turkey though, like both our families did. The Briones clan made Thanksgiving dinner for our friends from Kansas, and from what Q and I heard, they were having a lot of fun making that turkey! LoL… Sarai and Abi were singing for me.. Davidito was happy to join them… jijiji… and so we had the most terribly-sounding little trio on the phone for like 15 min. Well, it was four of us with me, and we even convinced Q to sing a Thanksgiving song to us. Q has a pretty decent voice… but we were… riotous. and completely, unashamedly out of tune. Jiji.. despite all the lazy fun and crazy adventures we had, I think we both missed our families a lot. I keep imagining what it’d be like to put all of you guys together in one room… muajajaja … it’d be so much fun.
Ok… I need some food.
I hope all of you had a wonderful, happy Thanksgiving day… jiji… :) !
We had a rainy Thanksgiving Day. And the boy’s airplane seemed to have been a bit on the sluggish side: it put the boy and all other passengers through what I’d call slow torture (some 30 min of turbulence) and submitted me to its outright tardiness (hmm… 1hr, 15 min., and 34.3 sec. late, according to my phone). The flight info tv screens failed to display a change in flight numbers and/or time of arrival… and I was freaking out by the time he got here. After the “You look great, I’m so happy you’re here / I’m so happy to be here” hugs and kisses, I was still nervous enough to drum his shoulder playfully and ask why on earth was he so late, (you know, with that little nagging childish voice women get sometimes? hehe..) as if he were to blame. He says he’d told me about the time change. And he did… like 3 different times… with 3 different flights. By the time he got into a plane I had apparently gotten confused as to which flight was coming when…and with what special passenger on board. LoL… but ah well… I forgot about it in a second. I was just so glad he was here. He’d walked out to the reception area on his own (sluggish passengers too?). Clean shaved and wearing grey and black, his hands tucked in his pockets. Smiling despite the little flight adventure…
He’s such a positive person. At least today’s flight seems to have started off a bit better. Although the little self-service machine did not provide us with the assurance of a boarding pass (I think we were too early, so it only produced a strange little “you’re-checked in-so-you-can-go-beyond-security-check-but-you-don’t-have-a-seat-number-yet-so-you-probably-need-to-talk-to-a-gate-clerk” paper thingy), he did get into his original flight and will hopefully get home without further ado.
But back to the rainy Thanksgiving Day. It rained nonstop. I am not kidding. All day, since God only knows what time in the morning, and at least until the minute I fell asleep that night. We had done a nice little bit of reading/studying on Wednesday, so we refused to be productive on freaking Thanksgiving Day, even if it was rainy outside and there wasn’t much to do indoors. We had breakfast, and then we watched TV and called our families… We had lots of fun trying to make lasagna (which turned out pretty good, by the way!)… and we ended up having a Thanksgiving Lunch. I think that was because we were supposed to go to the movies, seeing as we had passed on it the night before. The rain did make us a bit hum… sick-o-phobic :P… and we ended up staying indoors for a good while, watching more tv, drinking tea, coffee, hot chocolate and eating fresas con crema… and since my roommates were out on their own Thanksgiving dinners, we were home alone! We had the fridge all for ourselves, the tv all for ourselves, and most importantly, the heater’s control all for ourselves. We totally turned that thing up. LoL. I think my roommates are a bit too money conscious when it comes to the heater. Or maybe they really just don’t ever get cold!? But Q and I were sick of carrying a little cobijita around. Jiji…
And then we really got crazy. LoL. Right after we’d turned up the heater and had just had a cup of tea and.. hehe.. turned off the tv. It is dangerous to turn that thing off. We went out. In the rain. In the cold, pouring rain. We layered up and put on boots and water-proof jackets and we each took an umbrella… and we went out for a walk and of course got completely soaked! Not surprisingly, everything else but the Chinese restaurant was closed. So we had a nice and warm Chinese Thanksgiving Dinner. And we were not (at all!) the only people there! …and we did not get sick either :) We had a blast. And then it was back to the scorching heat of my mischievous little wall thermometer. lol. 70◦. But after walking back in the rain I seriously felt like I should have read a 3-digit number.
And then of course I got used to it and got cold again.
Lots of fun. We did have a lot of fun… we went to the movies, we ate out, we walked around, we cooked and ate and rejoiced in our hw, and we even got my remote control to work again (well, he did… hehe.. el interés tiene piés, diría mi Papá. Jijiji…). We caught up, and talked, and read and watched tv and all that fun stuff.
We didn’t eat turkey though, like both our families did. The Briones clan made Thanksgiving dinner for our friends from Kansas, and from what Q and I heard, they were having a lot of fun making that turkey! LoL… Sarai and Abi were singing for me.. Davidito was happy to join them… jijiji… and so we had the most terribly-sounding little trio on the phone for like 15 min. Well, it was four of us with me, and we even convinced Q to sing a Thanksgiving song to us. Q has a pretty decent voice… but we were… riotous. and completely, unashamedly out of tune. Jiji.. despite all the lazy fun and crazy adventures we had, I think we both missed our families a lot. I keep imagining what it’d be like to put all of you guys together in one room… muajajaja … it’d be so much fun.
Ok… I need some food.
I hope all of you had a wonderful, happy Thanksgiving day… jiji… :) !
miércoles, noviembre 22, 2006
miércoles, noviembre 15, 2006
Aww...
made chocolate chip cookies last night for my Ministry class... they were salty! I should have bought "normal" cookies to take, but I had such a busy day... and I didn't even think of it, to be honest... it was.. weird.. to say the least... salty cookies! they were edible though... either that or my friends are all really, really nice. the cookies were all gone by the end of class :)
I also lost one of my favorite books... which my parents had taken the pain to send me from home... I forgot it in one of the classrooms and it was gone when I came back to get it. sniff... sniff... and I'm supposed to present on it!!
on top of everything, I'm staying in Andover till 9.30 tonight... grr... work.
I'm not in my best mood right now. I wanna go home and watch tv or sleep or take a nice long shower or eat "comfort food" ...lol....not my cookies... hehe... ah well, I guess I can do that tonight after work :P
such a weird day.
I also lost one of my favorite books... which my parents had taken the pain to send me from home... I forgot it in one of the classrooms and it was gone when I came back to get it. sniff... sniff... and I'm supposed to present on it!!
on top of everything, I'm staying in Andover till 9.30 tonight... grr... work.
I'm not in my best mood right now. I wanna go home and watch tv or sleep or take a nice long shower or eat "comfort food" ...lol....not my cookies... hehe... ah well, I guess I can do that tonight after work :P
such a weird day.
Never been happier about a B
so... I take it back. I AM telling you my grades, but only because I did well :P
A- in Orthodoxy and Heresy.... and although I was honestly not expecting a B, I have to say God is GOOOOOOD! ...and my professor too... What can I say? They both like me.
LoL. Which isn't saying much, since they both like everybody :P
Well, yeah... never been happier about a B.
later edit:
I can't believe this.. LOL! I was so happy I didnt say what I got a B in. it was GREEK! LoL... that sentence should have been something like "although I was honestly not expecting to get a B on my Greek midterm, I have to say God is GOOOOOOD!"
I've been having a lot of trouble with this class... to the point that I was even considering to listen to my Dad's admitedly practical advice and take Spanish instead. Greek is kicking my butt. So... yeah... I am very, very happy with my B :D ...jiji....
and... hmm... I was expecting higher than a B in Orthodoxy and Heresy... I actually have a feeling I might have had the highest grade in my class :D! but... WOooOOOOohOOOOOOooo for Bs in Greek!!! LoL...
A- in Orthodoxy and Heresy.... and although I was honestly not expecting a B, I have to say God is GOOOOOOD! ...and my professor too... What can I say? They both like me.
LoL. Which isn't saying much, since they both like everybody :P
Well, yeah... never been happier about a B.
later edit:
I can't believe this.. LOL! I was so happy I didnt say what I got a B in. it was GREEK! LoL... that sentence should have been something like "although I was honestly not expecting to get a B on my Greek midterm, I have to say God is GOOOOOOD!"
I've been having a lot of trouble with this class... to the point that I was even considering to listen to my Dad's admitedly practical advice and take Spanish instead. Greek is kicking my butt. So... yeah... I am very, very happy with my B :D ...jiji....
and... hmm... I was expecting higher than a B in Orthodoxy and Heresy... I actually have a feeling I might have had the highest grade in my class :D! but... WOooOOOOohOOOOOOooo for Bs in Greek!!! LoL...
A good weekend :)
It was a nice... relaxing... and also productive weekend. Didn't sleep in at all, but I got caught up with my reading!! and then I slept in yesterterday, so I can't complain :)
Church was amazing! went to a service in Spanish :) The church is called Leon de Juda, and it's a Latin-American Pentecostal church. I went in a bit afraid of a spectacle, but I was pleasantly surprised to have really entered a temple. Worship was traditional in the Hispanic sense (contemporary, yet old songs and “coritos”). They had songs I used to sing when I was a kid… Levántate, Al Borde de Tu Gran Trono, Me Gozare, etc. Ah… the reminiscences …
There was a group of White people… young kids from a campus ministry that was going to Guatemala this week or next, and that was visiting to sell coffee to raise support. It was really cute… they kept looking at us during worship… hm… let me tell you, our worship style is not the par-tee Black American churches have, but we move to the music, and we clap, and we raise our hands, and we sing wholeheartedly. The youth group kept looking at us, wanting to do the same, but very few of them were brave enough to join us. It was cute, I thought… and I think if they keep coming they’d eventually enjoy the service as much as we do. The sermon was very good too… one of the most structured sermons I’ve heard in a while… woohoo! Someone went to seminary!! LoL… It was completely based in the Scripture… it was practical, it had a purpose, it was amazing. I’m not going to type my notes in here only bc I have to start getting ready for school in like 5 min.
So… I may have found my church. The drawback to having found a church that holds service exactly like we do in Mexico is that they are looOOoong. I never knew of a 1hr long service until I moved to Dallas. Lol… and now I’m so used to them that having gotten home at 4pm when the service started at 12 felt a bit odd. But I think the time investment is worth it. I felt like I had really, truly worshipped for the first time in a very long time. I really needed to. It was amazing :) !!
So… school is going great…. I expect to start getting my grades back sometime after Thanksgiving… but I wont tell you what they are cuz I don’t know how well I did… LoL… I’m hoping it’ll be good, with the exception of Greek, which is starting to make sense, but is still a pain in the butt. Lol…
Last night I went “out” with my friends.. went to someone’s house to watch like 3 episodes of “Arrested Development” and eat pizza. The show is sooo bad…it’s sooo sad it’s funny. Jejeje…
Ok.. gots to get ready for the day…
Church was amazing! went to a service in Spanish :) The church is called Leon de Juda, and it's a Latin-American Pentecostal church. I went in a bit afraid of a spectacle, but I was pleasantly surprised to have really entered a temple. Worship was traditional in the Hispanic sense (contemporary, yet old songs and “coritos”). They had songs I used to sing when I was a kid… Levántate, Al Borde de Tu Gran Trono, Me Gozare, etc. Ah… the reminiscences …
There was a group of White people… young kids from a campus ministry that was going to Guatemala this week or next, and that was visiting to sell coffee to raise support. It was really cute… they kept looking at us during worship… hm… let me tell you, our worship style is not the par-tee Black American churches have, but we move to the music, and we clap, and we raise our hands, and we sing wholeheartedly. The youth group kept looking at us, wanting to do the same, but very few of them were brave enough to join us. It was cute, I thought… and I think if they keep coming they’d eventually enjoy the service as much as we do. The sermon was very good too… one of the most structured sermons I’ve heard in a while… woohoo! Someone went to seminary!! LoL… It was completely based in the Scripture… it was practical, it had a purpose, it was amazing. I’m not going to type my notes in here only bc I have to start getting ready for school in like 5 min.
So… I may have found my church. The drawback to having found a church that holds service exactly like we do in Mexico is that they are looOOoong. I never knew of a 1hr long service until I moved to Dallas. Lol… and now I’m so used to them that having gotten home at 4pm when the service started at 12 felt a bit odd. But I think the time investment is worth it. I felt like I had really, truly worshipped for the first time in a very long time. I really needed to. It was amazing :) !!
So… school is going great…. I expect to start getting my grades back sometime after Thanksgiving… but I wont tell you what they are cuz I don’t know how well I did… LoL… I’m hoping it’ll be good, with the exception of Greek, which is starting to make sense, but is still a pain in the butt. Lol…
Last night I went “out” with my friends.. went to someone’s house to watch like 3 episodes of “Arrested Development” and eat pizza. The show is sooo bad…it’s sooo sad it’s funny. Jejeje…
Ok.. gots to get ready for the day…
viernes, noviembre 10, 2006
My FBI friend...
Is going on a "thanksgiving skiing trip". LoL. I've been invited:
We are currently planning a SKI trip for Thanksgiving weekend. We will be making reservations very soon, so let me know if you are interested in the trip.We will drive to a ski resort probably somewhere in Colorado. We are currently exploring where to go and plans for lodging (if we get a big enough group, we could possibly rent a condo).
Here is the schedule:Wednesday, Nov 22: depart in the morning for the road-tripThursday, Nov 23: SkiFriday, Nov 24: SkiSaturday, Nov 25: SkiSunday, Nov 26: SkiSunday afternoon: begin driving home immediately after full day of skiingreturn to Dallas by Monday, Nov 27 morning in time for work
Plan for the total cost to likely be around $400 - $500 (your share of gasoline, $20-$50 lift ticket skiing per day, $15-$30 per day for ski rental, about $20 per night (x4) for lodging, food, lessons if you want (either paid from resort or free lessons from J and/or J (see attached pictures for our credentials), other activities).
Of course since this is an APT106 adventure, the activities will not be limited to solely skiing! Examples of other activities that we might partake in include hiking through woods at night, tubing / ice skiing off the back of a vehicle, horseback riding, snowmobiling, outdoor ice skating, swimming in hot springs or under the frozen lake to find fish for Thanksgiving dinner and pirate treasures, potato cannon, using J's new predator call to attract bear and wolves to make friends that will hunt for our dinner and for free lodging in a bear cave.
Uh...
Yeah... I can't believe we had this guy squashed on the floor of my family's living room... the crazy boy. Dad was seriously considering calling a doctor.
I am not going. for obvious reasons: I have much more exciting Thanksgiving plans :D
(which by the way would be even more exciting if Mom changed her mind... and skipped work.. but I'm just saying...)
Q is comin'! I have a feeling I'm gonna have more fun than my crazy FBI friend :)
We are currently planning a SKI trip for Thanksgiving weekend. We will be making reservations very soon, so let me know if you are interested in the trip.We will drive to a ski resort probably somewhere in Colorado. We are currently exploring where to go and plans for lodging (if we get a big enough group, we could possibly rent a condo).
Here is the schedule:Wednesday, Nov 22: depart in the morning for the road-tripThursday, Nov 23: SkiFriday, Nov 24: SkiSaturday, Nov 25: SkiSunday, Nov 26: SkiSunday afternoon: begin driving home immediately after full day of skiingreturn to Dallas by Monday, Nov 27 morning in time for work
Plan for the total cost to likely be around $400 - $500 (your share of gasoline, $20-$50 lift ticket skiing per day, $15-$30 per day for ski rental, about $20 per night (x4) for lodging, food, lessons if you want (either paid from resort or free lessons from J and/or J (see attached pictures for our credentials), other activities).
Of course since this is an APT106 adventure, the activities will not be limited to solely skiing! Examples of other activities that we might partake in include hiking through woods at night, tubing / ice skiing off the back of a vehicle, horseback riding, snowmobiling, outdoor ice skating, swimming in hot springs or under the frozen lake to find fish for Thanksgiving dinner and pirate treasures, potato cannon, using J's new predator call to attract bear and wolves to make friends that will hunt for our dinner and for free lodging in a bear cave.
Uh...
Yeah... I can't believe we had this guy squashed on the floor of my family's living room... the crazy boy. Dad was seriously considering calling a doctor.
I am not going. for obvious reasons: I have much more exciting Thanksgiving plans :D
(which by the way would be even more exciting if Mom changed her mind... and skipped work.. but I'm just saying...)
Q is comin'! I have a feeling I'm gonna have more fun than my crazy FBI friend :)
back to the classics :P
I made a mistake today, and instead of reading today’s post, I ended up reading my post for Oct 30 of last year. Don’t look it up… it’s one of those really, really long posts. LoL. I realized, however, that it’s been a while since I talk about everyday life. Reading a year old post was so fun… “remembering” how things really were (to me, at least) at the time… reading about the small little details I inevitably forget… so fun. So here is the re-cap for my first semester at Harvard. You don’t have to read it, by the way…lol… it’ll most definitely go on forever... ya know, for personal future reference :)
Class has been amazing. I have class every day, and I’m in lecture every MWF by 9am and am done around 5pm. Tuesdays are just as bad, but Thursdays I have just one class. Mondays and Fridays I usually work with the Media Services as a Student Technician, which means I do computers, cables, mics, cams, sound and video recordings…that sort of stuff. Either that or I’m providing media assistance… which is fun because the “client” is usually a professor… and I l-o-v-e knowing more about something (anything, even if it’s just computer stuff) than them :P *muajajaja*
Most lectures are held in the Sperry room, a large 400 people auditorium that gives us more than enough space to comfortably grab our preferred seat (or two) and listen to class. The movie-theater-like chairs are not as pretty as those in SMU’s lecture halls, but they’re arranged around the lectern area, much like the seats of a Greek theater, and they have folding tables, which I love.
The facilities are old… stone (building façade and floors) and wood (classroom floors, walls, and furnishings) …for the most part… and I find them beautiful, in a strange, grim-ish way… We do have one of the best libraries in the world, the Andover Theological Library… though I have so much obligatory reading that I feel I’ve missed out .. I will, however, start a MUST-READ book list… I’ve decided I just HAVE to make the time. LoL. I won’t ever have the time, I won’t ever have the money. I should just spend it. LoL. What little time I do have I will freely spend on what’s important.
But back to my immediate past. Present. Past-present? LoL. Continuous Past? Perfect Tense! Or is it the imperfect?? Oh gosh… Sorry…. Can I blame this one on Skedros?
Each of my professors is a character worth writing a book or two about. There’s the odd, mean but sweet pair that teaches my Histories Theologies and Practices course… they constantly look at each other for intellectual approval, and yet they rejoice in making jokes out of each other’s phrasing tendencies. They both have eye problems, a small distraction that I’ve solved through my own optical deficiency: I simply don’t wear my glasses for class. They seldom write on the board, so it’s proven to be quite a simple and effective solution, however funny it must be…. :)
My Greek professor is adorable. He is by far one of the most humane people I have ever met. He is very simply a good man. And an organized, structured professor too… I have a feeling some people might get nervous when he admits to have made a mistake… but I love that he does… he cares very little about impressing others… I luv it.
And then there’s my IMS professor, who is also my academic counselor. During my first (and admittedly, my only one so far) meeting with her, she said I should consider doing a PhD. That I’m definitely PhD material. Very flattering, of course, but we really didn’t talk that much, and I’m still wondering where on earth she drew that conclusion from??
And then there’s the Campus Minister… whose husband reminds me of Q. Since I met him a week or two ago, she and I smile and repeat that Economists are hot –every time we’re given a chance. She leads my IMS section course, and she brings a bell to class every day. Her class is the last one of the day for most of us, so her routine of making it resonate once to signal a minute of silence and prayer and then reading a poem at the end of those 60 seconds of silence is beyond helpful …the bell is very obviously Tibetan, which reinforces my suspicion that she drew her idea from the Eastern practice of meditation… and (should I be saying “but” ?) it does work: by the end of that last small echo, we have pulled ourselves back together, and we’re truly, fully present, ready for another hour and a half of literary intensity. I do believe we ought to learn from other traditions…
There is SO much I could say about that class… but I will save that for later.
I think I’ve already made my comment on the broadness of my courses so far. I expect that to be temporal, though. Only two of the classes we’re all expected to take are introductory in nature… and however broad they may be, I’ve only read half the material before… and most of it I read-skimmed my sophomore year… which means I’m still doing as much reading as anyone else. Too much.
I’ve found it difficult to adjust to the social environment… but I suppose I always do, at first. I’m afraid I have the tendency of being too friendly too soon… I may be scaring potential friends away! LoL. But seriously, I was in deep reflection yesterday … and I think that the more serious a person I seem, the more they (people in general) are interested in starting conversations with me –which is a bit hard because the more comfortable I get, the more I express “emotions” if you can call them that. Although I don’t necessarily want to make long, lasting friendships, I do not like the awkward feeling that I may have overreacted to someone’s friendly gesture. So, back to social tactic #1 : be reserved. Do your own thing and let them be. Usually they’ll warm up, and then I can warm up too… it just takes them a little longer :P
I am, however, a part of a “clique.” An “open clique,” as one of them said, but a clique nevertheless. LoL!! Back to high school!! We go out on Tuesday nights, after the 5 o’clock class. We go to someone’s place and watch tv and eat pizza, we play board games, we go to cafes, that sort of stuff. I like them all a lot… nothing great and amazing going on… but I do enjoy their company, and I appreciate their friendliness… mainly because it means I can be friendly too :) ! I’ve already started inviting people to join us, and I found it difficult to study at the library the other day… lol… with all the people stopping by to say hi… lol… the clique is soooo friendly, and everybody else is so ..iffy… it’s a bit confusing. I’m back to that freshman social status…LoL… again. I’ve come to the conclusion that although I am naturally friendly, I am not naturally social. I can only be comfortably social among friends. Does that make any sense? LoL…
Today I did half my laundy. I did it myself. Yup.. handwashed. Half my laundry. It is 2 dollars a load!! And another 2 dollars to dry. And I do some serious color sifting. I’ve decided that spending 16- 20 dollars a week on laundry is unacceptable. So I’m washing it myself, little by little. LoL. Let’s see if I can keep it up… I don’t think I will… but at least I won’t feel like I didn’t try. Jeje…
One of my roommates got engaged last weekend. So we have a small dinner party tonight… fun times… fun times.
Hmm… Pictures of the apartment and the department to come.
Class has been amazing. I have class every day, and I’m in lecture every MWF by 9am and am done around 5pm. Tuesdays are just as bad, but Thursdays I have just one class. Mondays and Fridays I usually work with the Media Services as a Student Technician, which means I do computers, cables, mics, cams, sound and video recordings…that sort of stuff. Either that or I’m providing media assistance… which is fun because the “client” is usually a professor… and I l-o-v-e knowing more about something (anything, even if it’s just computer stuff) than them :P *muajajaja*
Most lectures are held in the Sperry room, a large 400 people auditorium that gives us more than enough space to comfortably grab our preferred seat (or two) and listen to class. The movie-theater-like chairs are not as pretty as those in SMU’s lecture halls, but they’re arranged around the lectern area, much like the seats of a Greek theater, and they have folding tables, which I love.
The facilities are old… stone (building façade and floors) and wood (classroom floors, walls, and furnishings) …for the most part… and I find them beautiful, in a strange, grim-ish way… We do have one of the best libraries in the world, the Andover Theological Library… though I have so much obligatory reading that I feel I’ve missed out .. I will, however, start a MUST-READ book list… I’ve decided I just HAVE to make the time. LoL. I won’t ever have the time, I won’t ever have the money. I should just spend it. LoL. What little time I do have I will freely spend on what’s important.
But back to my immediate past. Present. Past-present? LoL. Continuous Past? Perfect Tense! Or is it the imperfect?? Oh gosh… Sorry…. Can I blame this one on Skedros?
Each of my professors is a character worth writing a book or two about. There’s the odd, mean but sweet pair that teaches my Histories Theologies and Practices course… they constantly look at each other for intellectual approval, and yet they rejoice in making jokes out of each other’s phrasing tendencies. They both have eye problems, a small distraction that I’ve solved through my own optical deficiency: I simply don’t wear my glasses for class. They seldom write on the board, so it’s proven to be quite a simple and effective solution, however funny it must be…. :)
My Greek professor is adorable. He is by far one of the most humane people I have ever met. He is very simply a good man. And an organized, structured professor too… I have a feeling some people might get nervous when he admits to have made a mistake… but I love that he does… he cares very little about impressing others… I luv it.
And then there’s my IMS professor, who is also my academic counselor. During my first (and admittedly, my only one so far) meeting with her, she said I should consider doing a PhD. That I’m definitely PhD material. Very flattering, of course, but we really didn’t talk that much, and I’m still wondering where on earth she drew that conclusion from??
And then there’s the Campus Minister… whose husband reminds me of Q. Since I met him a week or two ago, she and I smile and repeat that Economists are hot –every time we’re given a chance. She leads my IMS section course, and she brings a bell to class every day. Her class is the last one of the day for most of us, so her routine of making it resonate once to signal a minute of silence and prayer and then reading a poem at the end of those 60 seconds of silence is beyond helpful …the bell is very obviously Tibetan, which reinforces my suspicion that she drew her idea from the Eastern practice of meditation… and (should I be saying “but” ?) it does work: by the end of that last small echo, we have pulled ourselves back together, and we’re truly, fully present, ready for another hour and a half of literary intensity. I do believe we ought to learn from other traditions…
There is SO much I could say about that class… but I will save that for later.
I think I’ve already made my comment on the broadness of my courses so far. I expect that to be temporal, though. Only two of the classes we’re all expected to take are introductory in nature… and however broad they may be, I’ve only read half the material before… and most of it I read-skimmed my sophomore year… which means I’m still doing as much reading as anyone else. Too much.
I’ve found it difficult to adjust to the social environment… but I suppose I always do, at first. I’m afraid I have the tendency of being too friendly too soon… I may be scaring potential friends away! LoL. But seriously, I was in deep reflection yesterday … and I think that the more serious a person I seem, the more they (people in general) are interested in starting conversations with me –which is a bit hard because the more comfortable I get, the more I express “emotions” if you can call them that. Although I don’t necessarily want to make long, lasting friendships, I do not like the awkward feeling that I may have overreacted to someone’s friendly gesture. So, back to social tactic #1 : be reserved. Do your own thing and let them be. Usually they’ll warm up, and then I can warm up too… it just takes them a little longer :P
I am, however, a part of a “clique.” An “open clique,” as one of them said, but a clique nevertheless. LoL!! Back to high school!! We go out on Tuesday nights, after the 5 o’clock class. We go to someone’s place and watch tv and eat pizza, we play board games, we go to cafes, that sort of stuff. I like them all a lot… nothing great and amazing going on… but I do enjoy their company, and I appreciate their friendliness… mainly because it means I can be friendly too :) ! I’ve already started inviting people to join us, and I found it difficult to study at the library the other day… lol… with all the people stopping by to say hi… lol… the clique is soooo friendly, and everybody else is so ..iffy… it’s a bit confusing. I’m back to that freshman social status…LoL… again. I’ve come to the conclusion that although I am naturally friendly, I am not naturally social. I can only be comfortably social among friends. Does that make any sense? LoL…
Today I did half my laundy. I did it myself. Yup.. handwashed. Half my laundry. It is 2 dollars a load!! And another 2 dollars to dry. And I do some serious color sifting. I’ve decided that spending 16- 20 dollars a week on laundry is unacceptable. So I’m washing it myself, little by little. LoL. Let’s see if I can keep it up… I don’t think I will… but at least I won’t feel like I didn’t try. Jeje…
One of my roommates got engaged last weekend. So we have a small dinner party tonight… fun times… fun times.
Hmm… Pictures of the apartment and the department to come.
martes, noviembre 07, 2006
My brother :D
.:hEy ArElY!
SabEs Q´ Tê KeLl0w MuSHop!
CuIdaTe
AtTe El HeRmAno + ChuLoW Q´TiEnEs!:.
jiji... that's a message my brother sent me.
I had to show off... and .. hm... keep it for posterity :D
SabEs Q´ Tê KeLl0w MuSHop!
CuIdaTe
AtTe El HeRmAno + ChuLoW Q´TiEnEs!:.
jiji... that's a message my brother sent me.
I had to show off... and .. hm... keep it for posterity :D
lunes, noviembre 06, 2006
IM GONNA NEED SOME SLEEP AFTER THIS!!
LoL.
:D
It's 3.49am and I am WIDE awake.
I have my Greek midterm tomorrow...umm... in a couple hours. I'm not as ready for it as I wish I was. But I'm as ready as it's gonna get :P Been studying for this one ALL month! and I've been stressing about it this whole weekend.... and now I can't sleep.
jeje...
Send a few prayers this way! I will use them all up :D
:D
It's 3.49am and I am WIDE awake.
I have my Greek midterm tomorrow...umm... in a couple hours. I'm not as ready for it as I wish I was. But I'm as ready as it's gonna get :P Been studying for this one ALL month! and I've been stressing about it this whole weekend.... and now I can't sleep.
jeje...
Send a few prayers this way! I will use them all up :D
