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cimorenethe janitor just came by and changed the nameplate on our mail slot so that instead of ROIVAS KYMALÄINEN it says WAX CIM (except our real last names, and without spaces, because mine has 13 characters). and hey, we haven't even been here a month yet! we moved in on the 14th. great work there, speedy gonzales!
speaking of the door, or not, i've been and continue to be busy with
1. leftover test from term I course "ideas and ideologies". i have spent the past six days reading two books in swedish (politiska ideologier i vår tid and politik och ideologi). i'm taking the exams on them this friday. i *still* won't be done with this course, though, because there is in actual fact a third swedish book i didn't think i'd have time to read (samhällskonst), so i didn't sign up for it.
2. sociology. i got an "outstanding" on the introduction course exam which i took two thursdays ago, which is to say, a 5/5. the term ii course (society and culture) started monday, and it consists completely of work in small 6-person groups. we've scheduled our own six meetings and we have six texts on different areas of sociology, like youth subcultures and long-term unemployment (mine is about mobile phones, aka the nokia!culture book). each of us reads one and writes an essay on it, but the exam, which will be in mid december, includes all six of them, so we're supposed to read them all.
3. new political science course, "parties and voters". first meeting was yesterday, second is tomorrow. the instructor is from southern sweden and has a fascinating accent. the exam is in three and a half weeks, plus there are three books for this one, too. one is in english, at least.
the upshot of all this is that it's hard to see how i'm going to have any time to write for at least a couple of weeks, maybe until shortly before christmas. this is frustrating because the pressure, plus all the reading, have combined to make me feel pretty creative. i've been doodling constantly, which seems to be about all i can manage. the other upshot of this is that i'm getting incredibly sick of marxism (and am getting there with capitalism, justice, and democracy), but that's another post that i'm probably not going to write. have been in enforced internet-isolation to facilitate studying and it seems possible that i may actually miss it when my best friend has a baby, for which i want to publicly apologise in advance, just in case, even though i will attempt to forestall the eventuality.
my love for CSI and CSI:NY is still great, but my two most-anticipated shows so far this season are grey's anatomy and the new CBS FBI drama, criminal minds, with mandy patinkin. i hope CBS's crime drama reputation and high budget will mean this show survives a long time. it's fun and plotty and i like the whole ensemble cast very, very much--and it's amazing they stand up to the awesomeness of mandy at all, y'know? i've also seen a bunch of movies lately: cypher (jeremy northam and lucy liu, 10 min of david hewlett) (fabulous and adorable), flightplan (entertaining and kind of cool), the aviator (great), corpse bride (adorable, fun), the brothers grimm (enragingly terrible), a dangerous man: lawrence after arabia (even more slashy than i had believed possible), and--finally!--charlie and the chocolate factory (not entirely flawless, but incredibly enjoyable).
speaking of the door, or not, i've been and continue to be busy with
1. leftover test from term I course "ideas and ideologies". i have spent the past six days reading two books in swedish (politiska ideologier i vår tid and politik och ideologi). i'm taking the exams on them this friday. i *still* won't be done with this course, though, because there is in actual fact a third swedish book i didn't think i'd have time to read (samhällskonst), so i didn't sign up for it.
2. sociology. i got an "outstanding" on the introduction course exam which i took two thursdays ago, which is to say, a 5/5. the term ii course (society and culture) started monday, and it consists completely of work in small 6-person groups. we've scheduled our own six meetings and we have six texts on different areas of sociology, like youth subcultures and long-term unemployment (mine is about mobile phones, aka the nokia!culture book). each of us reads one and writes an essay on it, but the exam, which will be in mid december, includes all six of them, so we're supposed to read them all.
3. new political science course, "parties and voters". first meeting was yesterday, second is tomorrow. the instructor is from southern sweden and has a fascinating accent. the exam is in three and a half weeks, plus there are three books for this one, too. one is in english, at least.
the upshot of all this is that it's hard to see how i'm going to have any time to write for at least a couple of weeks, maybe until shortly before christmas. this is frustrating because the pressure, plus all the reading, have combined to make me feel pretty creative. i've been doodling constantly, which seems to be about all i can manage. the other upshot of this is that i'm getting incredibly sick of marxism (and am getting there with capitalism, justice, and democracy), but that's another post that i'm probably not going to write. have been in enforced internet-isolation to facilitate studying and it seems possible that i may actually miss it when my best friend has a baby, for which i want to publicly apologise in advance, just in case, even though i will attempt to forestall the eventuality.
my love for CSI and CSI:NY is still great, but my two most-anticipated shows so far this season are grey's anatomy and the new CBS FBI drama, criminal minds, with mandy patinkin. i hope CBS's crime drama reputation and high budget will mean this show survives a long time. it's fun and plotty and i like the whole ensemble cast very, very much--and it's amazing they stand up to the awesomeness of mandy at all, y'know? i've also seen a bunch of movies lately: cypher (jeremy northam and lucy liu, 10 min of david hewlett) (fabulous and adorable), flightplan (entertaining and kind of cool), the aviator (great), corpse bride (adorable, fun), the brothers grimm (enragingly terrible), a dangerous man: lawrence after arabia (even more slashy than i had believed possible), and--finally!--charlie and the chocolate factory (not entirely flawless, but incredibly enjoyable).
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Date: 8 Nov 2005 12:51 pm (UTC)I booked the movers today, they are picking my stuff up on the 19th of December. It's so soon!
I am kind of freaking out about everything I have to do.
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Date: 8 Nov 2005 01:26 pm (UTC)