Quiz-whew.

[icarus]

Sanskritsanskritsanskrit....

Quiz results: Okay, not as bad as I feared, grade-wise. But I'm not where I need to be as we move on, because these weren't careless mistakes or "oops, yeah, I should have" mistakes, but ones where I genuinely didn't understand. Somewhere around 7:30 this morning I started to get it. So. More review.

Then a story for my creative writing class. I've had so much trouble with this class, I've called in sick (actually I have to go to the pharmacy to, oh, buy the ability to breath), and I'm just going to plow through it.

Here's the shakedown:

Sanskrit -- love the class, struggling a little more than expected.
Ethnomusicology -- enjoy the class, piece of cake, have a name to follow up on for the Ethnography of the Yi people.
Creative Writing -- miserable class, hating pretty much every second of it.

The irony.

New annoyance in the creative writing class? The teacher prints out our resposes from the little forum we have to post to twice a week, and teaches from those. That's just lazy. Have I received any feedback on my (crappy) stories? No. None. Zero, zip, nada.

At least he's cute, so I can enjoy the eye candy. Sparkly, pretty green eyes. That's what I do during class. Admire the pretty teacher, respond if the discussion hits anything interesting, but mostly I'm just smiling at the teacher.

Comments

[vichka.livejournal.com]

I always love these posts about your school.
Take me along when you do something you like, would you?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Sure.

This morning after class I chatted with my Ethnomusicology teacher about NuShu (http://www.ancientscripts.com/nushu.html), a type women's writing common among the Yi people on the border of SW China. He had a contact of someone who's done a lot of research in that area, specializing in it. I had some questions about similarities between Tibet and Shangxi rituals and he said there was no relationship -- and had interesting point that the Confucian quality to the rituals in that area might be an overlay, or they might be the original source of the ritual.

I'm scanning for books on that province to learn more, but so far everything's in Chinese.

Icarus

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Sure.

This morning after class I chatted with my Ethnomusicology teacher about NuShu (http://www.ancientscripts.com/nushu.html), a type women's writing common among the Yi people on the border of SW China. He had a contact of someone who's done a lot of research in that area, specializing in it. I had some questions about similarities between Tibet and Shangxi rituals and he said there was no relationship -- and had interesting point that the Confucian quality to the rituals in that area might be an overlay, or they might be the original source of the ritual.

I'm scanning for books on that province to learn more, but so far everything's in Chinese. Aha! Found it. It's under north China ritual.

Icarus

[twistedrecesses.livejournal.com]

We had a grad student come in to lecture in my 17th and 18th century French lit class. It was relatively pointless, because he was working us way below our level.

All was well though, because he was cute enough that I had to restrain myself from interrupting class to ask for him number and a night alone :D

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I tell you, he has twinkly eyes, and he must be ten years younger than me. :D

Icarus

[harveywallbang.livejournal.com]

i love how you ....define it as sanskritsanskritsanskrit...cause that's really what it looks like... i applaud you learning it, cause i'd just faint trying to comprehend learning it.
yeah, at least he has pretty eyes..