Hey guys.  I have a tumblr now.  It has a pretty neat interface so maybe I'll do stuff there more often.  Sorry for not blogging, I don't really have the time, plus Xanga feels really cluttered.

 

Head on over to my tumblr!  http://awellfittedname.tumblr.com/

We interrupt this broadcast to bring you this Facebook drama.

Laney Smith (my oldest sister):
So much outrage about the ARIZONA immigration law....have we CALIFORNIANS lost sight of what is going on right here? We are losing teachers left and right, funding for multiple educatinal programs are disappearing. OUR children WILL pay the price. How much money went to Haiti? How much money goes to our schools? We... need to fix America and quit trying to fix what is none of our business!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!!

Stacy Breland:
Stacy Breland:

This year for Lent, I'm thanking God that I have a church to spend it in.

I've given up buying lunch.  It isn't that I'm giving up lunch, it's that I'm giving up being too lazy in the mornings to take 5 minutes and make a sandwich.  It's harder on some days than others, like today, when I really just want to be in bed.
But I think what I'm adding is eating slightly healthier.  Turkey and swiss sandwich with an apple and some Oreos vs. a hot dog from El Capitan's, or a fried chicken sandwich, or maybe just some crackers with a soda.  I think I'm doing pretty good.

My classes this quarter have been pretty good.  Advanced Spanish composition, culture of Latin America, syntax, and scriptwriting.  I think syntax is my favorite class, even though I almost never do my reading. (Sorry, Dr. Lobeck!)  I'm doing well in all my classes, but scriptwriting worries me since I'll have to turn out something like a 15-page one-act for my final.  /bitenails

I should write more later, but I probably won't.  I've been playing Dungeons and Dragons Online with Perry and Chris (and sometimes Steven [hey Steven, if you read this, we need a cleric, come join us!])  I've been busy with that and homework, and senioritis is starting to hit. O_o
FOCUS, WOMAN.

This entry is inspired by lotta_valdez's blog entry on things she enjoys more as she gets older.  She encouraged people to make their own list, so here's mine.

Things I Enjoy More As I Get Older
grocery shopping
high quality cheese
school
popular music
video games
body wash

Alright, so I'm taking 4 classes this quarter.  After week 1 of classes, let's take a look at what I think of them all.

8am-9am MWF: Culture of Latin America.  Homg early.  Definitely sucking down Starbucks during this class every day.  My prof, Hugo Garcia, is really cool.  He's from Cuba, where they eat their s's, so he's kind of hard to understand but this just makes me pay more attention right?  We're doing presentations throughout the quarter, so I already have a partner and a topic: Mixing of indigenous religions and Catholicism in Mexico.  Aw yeah.  Plus it's the second-to-last topic we're covering so Robert (my partner) and I have a bit more time to get started.  I'm pretty stoked about the class, it seems really interesting.  Yesterday we talked about precolumbian civilizations and I was pretty much the only one answering any questions.  Go me.

11am-12pm MTWF: Advanced Spanish Composition.  I keep trying to call it Spanish lit since I took that class last quarter with the same prof in the same classroom.  My prof is Joan Hoffman, who's the interim department head while Paqui Paredes is on sabbatical.  She's really fair and makes her expectations really clear, but she's got this bad habit of randomly switching to English in the middle of our 400-level Spanish class.  For cereal.  Anyway, the class is basically 6 essays and 5 analyses of said essays (which amount to, effectively, here are my corrected errors and here are the ones I still don't know how to fix).  No test, no textbook.  Except we had to buy a huge honking Spanish dictionary, and then carry it around for two days because we were going to do exercises in class with them.  Except on Friday she explicitly told us to bring them and then we never used them.  Not that I'm bitter.

12pm-1pm MWF: Syntax.  My lone linguistics class this quarter.  With a prof I've never had before: Anne Lobeck.  She's really cool, really excited about syntax without taking herself too seriously, which is refreshing after two quarters of Doctor (incase you forgot) Kendra Yuppieface Douglas.  But anyway, syntax is basically (really basically) the study of sentence structure.  It's a bit weird because I think she expects us to have taken 201 last quarter so this is our first in-depth class, where most of us have had at least three other linguistics classes since 201.  I see a lot of familiar faces from morphology and phonetics, which is nifty.  I guess a bunch of them are in semantics this quarter too, which I wish I could've taken, but it meets at the same time as my culture of Latin America class.  Damn you, overlapping classes!

1pm-3pm TR: Script Writing Workshop.  This is my sanity class.  I went a bit nuts by finals week last quarter, what with two upper-division Spanish classes and two upper-division linguistics classes.  So I'm taking a Fairhaven class with Perry (it's his sanity class too) and doing some writing and stuff.  It meets in the prof's office since they couldn't get a classroom, but the class is 11 or 12 people and Dan's office is pretty big (compared to the closets in which humanities profs exist) so it works, and it feels really intimate and stuff.  I'm having fun so far and can't wait to have my script performed on Tuesday!


So there you have it.  My class schedule for winter quarter.  Not sure if I'm gonna make it back to St. Paul's for choir since all of these classes have pretty intense reading/homework loads.

Goals for this quarter:
-bring lunch instead of buy it at the VU (I bought a plastic sandwich box for this purpose, I love it.)
-get homework done on time
-spend less money on coffee (unlikely)
-make new friends in the Spanish major