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cimorenei feel a little down today, and it didn't help that 2/3 of my sociology texts aren't in the coursebook library, and aren't orderable from akademiska bokhandeln.
i'm kind of really unhappy about this, because i really wanted a fourth class but none of the classes that could be useful to me are at compatible times - i need a minor but the folklore groundcourse is during sociology, i need an introduction to one more social science but women's studies (the one i really, really want) is during sociology (my other options are econ - i'm allergic, law - at the wrong time, and library science - i almost actually did that one just because i wanted to have something to do, but i'd frankly kind of rather stab myself in the head than take it, and fortunately i was too late for the first meeting and while standing outside the closed auditorium i came to my senses). so barring that stuff, i could take some electives, but what i really especially wanted was danish and it's at the same time as theory of knowledge.
the thing is that this is enough courses to eat up the majority of the week in a way that would make it very hard to go get a part-time job now for example (especially when it becomes imperative to read a bunch of course literature in swedish in a couple of weeks...), but not really enough to make me feel useful and productive. actually with the amount of course literature in sociology and t.o.k., i could study full-time with this, quite possibly, but having just the one class on monday and wednesday rankles.
on the plus side, there are supposedly 6 registered students in spanish 4, but one of them hasn't shown up. this makes for a really small class, and i'm already enjoying it tremendously. when i came home today, i discovered the livingroom full of dining furniture and the dog extremely anxious (he's neurotic and doesn't like furniture being moved). so i took apart the old table and put together the new one and now the kitchen looks like this (or this if you prefer). the livingroom is now full of the carcasses of two tables, but i still feel very accomplished.
also on the plus side, i've started slowly rereading one of my top favourite series of novels, cj cherryh's foreigner saga. i've read it five or six times (at various stages of completion, starting when only the first three had come out), but i've never read the two most recent (#7 & #8). well, it goes without saying that i think it's really good, but it's interesting to reread something i first read in middle school. i mean, i wasn't that far from being an adult, but i'm much more sensitive to the writing style, the point of view character's voice and what a whiny bitch he can be, how well-crafted the narration and the pov are and how incredibly cool it is to read all his confusion about the alien culture he will gradually come to understand much better. this is just one of the many directions in which my reflections of love have gone. i also read at cherryh's website this afternoon that the first two chapters of the first book - prequels - were added to the draft at the behest of her editor. that's fascinating! i've always found them out of place. i think it'd be better without them.
| m. | tu. | wed. | th. |
| 10-12. theory of scientific knowledge for social scientists |
13-15. sociological methodology 15-17. spanish 4 |
10-12. theory of scientific knowledge for social scientists |
10-12. sociological methodology 15-17. spanish 4 |
i'm kind of really unhappy about this, because i really wanted a fourth class but none of the classes that could be useful to me are at compatible times - i need a minor but the folklore groundcourse is during sociology, i need an introduction to one more social science but women's studies (the one i really, really want) is during sociology (my other options are econ - i'm allergic, law - at the wrong time, and library science - i almost actually did that one just because i wanted to have something to do, but i'd frankly kind of rather stab myself in the head than take it, and fortunately i was too late for the first meeting and while standing outside the closed auditorium i came to my senses). so barring that stuff, i could take some electives, but what i really especially wanted was danish and it's at the same time as theory of knowledge.
the thing is that this is enough courses to eat up the majority of the week in a way that would make it very hard to go get a part-time job now for example (especially when it becomes imperative to read a bunch of course literature in swedish in a couple of weeks...), but not really enough to make me feel useful and productive. actually with the amount of course literature in sociology and t.o.k., i could study full-time with this, quite possibly, but having just the one class on monday and wednesday rankles.
on the plus side, there are supposedly 6 registered students in spanish 4, but one of them hasn't shown up. this makes for a really small class, and i'm already enjoying it tremendously. when i came home today, i discovered the livingroom full of dining furniture and the dog extremely anxious (he's neurotic and doesn't like furniture being moved). so i took apart the old table and put together the new one and now the kitchen looks like this (or this if you prefer). the livingroom is now full of the carcasses of two tables, but i still feel very accomplished.
also on the plus side, i've started slowly rereading one of my top favourite series of novels, cj cherryh's foreigner saga. i've read it five or six times (at various stages of completion, starting when only the first three had come out), but i've never read the two most recent (#7 & #8). well, it goes without saying that i think it's really good, but it's interesting to reread something i first read in middle school. i mean, i wasn't that far from being an adult, but i'm much more sensitive to the writing style, the point of view character's voice and what a whiny bitch he can be, how well-crafted the narration and the pov are and how incredibly cool it is to read all his confusion about the alien culture he will gradually come to understand much better. this is just one of the many directions in which my reflections of love have gone. i also read at cherryh's website this afternoon that the first two chapters of the first book - prequels - were added to the draft at the behest of her editor. that's fascinating! i've always found them out of place. i think it'd be better without them.
