Next Semester, Roommates, and The Game that Wouldn't End
So, I get to register Wednesday morning at 6 for next semester's classes and I'm running through the course listings. So far I'm looking at mostly English classes, but that's because they're really the only thing offered that I need (besides gym classes, which I just can't get into unless I have priority or senior registration status. Damn my junior-ness). Here are the classes I'm considering:
ENG 109 - Psychoanalytical and Queer Theory: God, I want to be in this class. It's kind of small, but I'm hoping it doesn't get snatched up by the seniors and I can get in. I really don't need it, I already have a class in that category, but yeah, I want this class.
ENG 118 - Advanced Writing: Fiction: Well, I've already taken the intro class and it was enjoyable, so I'm looking forward to this class. It's also specifically fiction, the intro class was both poetry and fiction, which is nice. I'm pretty sure it won't keep me from fandom writing, it might even spur it on more.
ENG 146 - 19th Century British Novel: I don't want to take this class. I'm so over the 19th century British novel. I've been over it for a very long, long time. But it's in a necessary category for the major and it's the only class being offered this semester. Stupid B category. Have interesting classes! *shakes fist*
JAPN 002 - Elementary Japanese: Just more Japanese. I'll be taking this for the rest of my time here, and I'm enjoying it muchly.
WLIT 110 - Classical Chinese Lit. in Translation: I saw this class last year and I was so upset I couldn't fit it into my schedule. I'm really excited for it, and it works for my Asian Studies minor. Woot.
Those are my first choices. There's also the Mythology class, which I would love to take, but it doesn't fulfill any requirements for me. If it's not full by the time I get to it, I'm all over that. And there's also the follow-up History class to the one I'm taking now, which is China and Japan since 1800. Not very exciting, but good for my minor.
As for the roommate situation the story is long and rambling. I talked to Carly last week before she smoked up and the situation is not as dire as it once seemed. She already understood perfectly why I don't want to be in the apartment and she knows that it's a horrible situation to be put in. She also kept the other two girls from ambushing me one night at two in the morning and basically yelling at me what was in the note. Which frankly, I'm glad it didn't happen that way. I wouldn't have been able to form a coherent argument and I would have been bullied into so much.
I told her that I was okay with doing a quarter of the work if it was set in stone that certain people had certain jobs on certain days. Otherwise, I know that I'd be blamed if there was something to be done that they didn't feel like doing, even if I was pulling my weight, all because I'm just not there. She didn't think they would go for that, so off I went to talk to Christina about moving in next semester.
Problem though, as Res. Life is in upheaval at the moment. Brand new dorms are opening in January (if they're ready) and L/L is overcrowded and people are in bad situations in the building itself. Those people get priority housing, so it doesn't look good for me to get into a suite next semester. So I think Carly and I are going to try to come up with some sort of chore chart that people are okay with and that I can keep sane until the end of the school year. It's a lot easier now that I know it's not the scary three on one thing, and that Carly isn't okay with Courtney's copious drug use. Carly's cutting back while Court's buying opium, and while it sucks, I think I can make it through.
However, next year, I'm definitely getting a place in L/L as I will be the Anime as an Art Form program director next year. There's actually six of us who are going to be program directors working as a group, but I will be on paper as the leader. Crazyness. But again, it means definitely having a place in L/L with all my friends. The six of us are going to be assistants in the coming semester and we'll start to implement our ideas so that by next year, we're ready.
And I was totally supposed to finish the next chapter of my Apocalyptic WaT fic last night, but I got distracted by this damn game, Betrayal at House on the Hill. You explore a haunted house as much as you can before one of your teammates turns evil and becomes the traitor. Then the heroes get their own goal (probably to kill the traitor) and the traitor has their own objective as well. Then we battle to the death. We ended up playing a marathon three-hour game and I went home tired and without writing more than three paragraphs. So, now I'm off to write.
PS - I'm watching my new WaT Season 1 DVD, specifically "Little Big Man." I knew that when Danny and Martin interrogate they're hot as fuck, but when they fight as well? *ohsodead*
ENG 109 - Psychoanalytical and Queer Theory: God, I want to be in this class. It's kind of small, but I'm hoping it doesn't get snatched up by the seniors and I can get in. I really don't need it, I already have a class in that category, but yeah, I want this class.
ENG 118 - Advanced Writing: Fiction: Well, I've already taken the intro class and it was enjoyable, so I'm looking forward to this class. It's also specifically fiction, the intro class was both poetry and fiction, which is nice. I'm pretty sure it won't keep me from fandom writing, it might even spur it on more.
ENG 146 - 19th Century British Novel: I don't want to take this class. I'm so over the 19th century British novel. I've been over it for a very long, long time. But it's in a necessary category for the major and it's the only class being offered this semester. Stupid B category. Have interesting classes! *shakes fist*
JAPN 002 - Elementary Japanese: Just more Japanese. I'll be taking this for the rest of my time here, and I'm enjoying it muchly.
WLIT 110 - Classical Chinese Lit. in Translation: I saw this class last year and I was so upset I couldn't fit it into my schedule. I'm really excited for it, and it works for my Asian Studies minor. Woot.
Those are my first choices. There's also the Mythology class, which I would love to take, but it doesn't fulfill any requirements for me. If it's not full by the time I get to it, I'm all over that. And there's also the follow-up History class to the one I'm taking now, which is China and Japan since 1800. Not very exciting, but good for my minor.
As for the roommate situation the story is long and rambling. I talked to Carly last week before she smoked up and the situation is not as dire as it once seemed. She already understood perfectly why I don't want to be in the apartment and she knows that it's a horrible situation to be put in. She also kept the other two girls from ambushing me one night at two in the morning and basically yelling at me what was in the note. Which frankly, I'm glad it didn't happen that way. I wouldn't have been able to form a coherent argument and I would have been bullied into so much.
I told her that I was okay with doing a quarter of the work if it was set in stone that certain people had certain jobs on certain days. Otherwise, I know that I'd be blamed if there was something to be done that they didn't feel like doing, even if I was pulling my weight, all because I'm just not there. She didn't think they would go for that, so off I went to talk to Christina about moving in next semester.
Problem though, as Res. Life is in upheaval at the moment. Brand new dorms are opening in January (if they're ready) and L/L is overcrowded and people are in bad situations in the building itself. Those people get priority housing, so it doesn't look good for me to get into a suite next semester. So I think Carly and I are going to try to come up with some sort of chore chart that people are okay with and that I can keep sane until the end of the school year. It's a lot easier now that I know it's not the scary three on one thing, and that Carly isn't okay with Courtney's copious drug use. Carly's cutting back while Court's buying opium, and while it sucks, I think I can make it through.
However, next year, I'm definitely getting a place in L/L as I will be the Anime as an Art Form program director next year. There's actually six of us who are going to be program directors working as a group, but I will be on paper as the leader. Crazyness. But again, it means definitely having a place in L/L with all my friends. The six of us are going to be assistants in the coming semester and we'll start to implement our ideas so that by next year, we're ready.
And I was totally supposed to finish the next chapter of my Apocalyptic WaT fic last night, but I got distracted by this damn game, Betrayal at House on the Hill. You explore a haunted house as much as you can before one of your teammates turns evil and becomes the traitor. Then the heroes get their own goal (probably to kill the traitor) and the traitor has their own objective as well. Then we battle to the death. We ended up playing a marathon three-hour game and I went home tired and without writing more than three paragraphs. So, now I'm off to write.
PS - I'm watching my new WaT Season 1 DVD, specifically "Little Big Man." I knew that when Danny and Martin interrogate they're hot as fuck, but when they fight as well? *ohsodead*