99 word balloons

I have survived the first day, and printed out some articles, syllabi, and other first day things. I also already have homework, which I'm positive is a cruel and unusual punishment under the Geneva Conventions.

Spanish was not as bad as I thought. Which means I almost followed what the professor was saying, and was able to say something semi-intelligent, if it wasn't the most coherent sentence I've ever said.

The only other opinion I have is that Greek Literature in Translation sounds really interesting. The course description says that the special topics in the class will be

the role of women in Greek society, literary constructions of feminine and masculine identities, ancient Greek pederasty and homosexuality, and the concept of eros as a social, psychological and emotional force in Greek life."

And we'll be reading the Greek texts and modern text, applying feminist and queer theory to both literary pools. <3

So far, I have four final projects. The phonetics and literature ones are fairly straightforward. The ethics one had not been clarified at all, and the Spanish one is a project that you do little things each week, then it's compiled into one big project at the end of the semester. Also, I have to make a 100 word dictionary. So far, I have one word: carsi. It means cheesy, as in "Tom Servo makes fun of the cheesy movie." 99 more words to go!

I should do most of my homework tonight, so I can go out and do non-school things Tuesday afternoon, like go downtown to buy my computational and informational ethics book and buy comics. Or eat.

Oh, and I have a project for ethics where I have to give up a technology. Except email is the Official Communication of Indiana University so no giving up computers. I don't use my cell phone, and I don't use the television machine. I think I may end up withholding from livejournal for my project. But that's in the future.

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Today I managed to unfuck up my library account. Last spring I returned over twenty books at once. Five of them stayed on my account, even though I was sure that they got taken back to the library.

Though, a niggling feeling remained that I might have packed them away into storage. Sunday, I unpacked everything, but there were no library books. So this afternoon, I wrote down the call numbers of all the books on my account and went hunting. I found four of them, but since the only information on the fifth book was "The History of the Peloponnese War", and there's four volumes of the book, with multiple copies of each, I aborted the mission and headed down to the circulation desk to complain.

The woman at the circulation desk was stunned that I had five books that managed to go back onto the stacks without being discharged from my account. She looked up my account, and gave me the library's barcode for the last one. I went up to the 9th floor, and the first book I pulled out matched.

She apologized, and the supervisor came over and he also apologized. I got a lot of apologies.

I now have NO books on my library account. I am, however, already thinking about the books I need for various projects, so that state is very, very ephemeral.

conflicts of interest

Many of my classes have attendance requirements. Where if you're not there after 2 or 3 days in the entire semester you start dropping letter grades. They also want you to stay in bed if you have the plague, especially if you have any sort of flu.

So things work out to where if you're sick for more than a week, you're screwed. And since it's my understanding it takes more than a week to get over the flu, I foresee many, many students getting fucked over this winter.