ha HA! NOT in Proportion!
God i love Harvey Birdman, 10-15 minutes of pure joy and rapture.
Ok enough of that. So Valentines day went by uneventful. Ideas expressed, and ideas ignored. Interesting point of reference, i talked to Mary the least ever on the day defined as necessitating the most concern toward your loved ones. She was busy, I was in a bad mood. You know what they say of the plans of men? Something about rye bread and a marathon running in parrallel with tiny furry creators of worlds.
Yesterday brought some disturbing news. The french teacher i’m studying french from isn’t happy with me as a student. Apparently i’m fitting the catagory of slacker in her eyes. Hell who knows she might be correct. So it comes down to she will not really attempt to help me. She says that she will do what is necessary and that is about it. Sure the rules say that if i show improvement she will take that into account, but she doesn’t have “time” to assist me where other teachers have failed. Have i mentioned about that?
You see interesting story there. I have done very well in previous french classes, but it turns out that i didn’t learn french. Oh hell i know i didn’t learn french. I did what was neccessary to pass the classes and thats the extent of it. Now it bit me on the ass. I need to pass the class to graduate. oh joy.
onto greener pastures. I talked to Kinsella for today. It was a nice discussion. We talked about how his nature of evil class is progressing. apparently there isn’t as much discussion as there should be. I plan to crash his class from now on to give his students better material to work with. I plan on going in there with some wild and wacky discussions of evil…… you hear me satan? i’m knocking on your door, and i’m coming in there and i’m shoving your ass against the definition wall…
Not in a great mood today just odd.. random thoughts spilling out from all directions… Physics is going well, i’m enjoying it a lot.
I need to figure out what topic i’m choosing in metaphysics…
February 16th, 2005 at 2:27 am
It’s alive!!!!!!!! Yay!!! I hope you don’t mind… Here are some suggestions. I found my Spanish Literature course difficult at first, too, and this is what helped me… – For syntax/familiarity: Watching soap operas on the Spanish Channel. So like, you could watch French movies with English subtitles. But watching English movies with French subtitles would be even better, since it’s your written French you want to improve. Watching, say, American Beauty with French subtitles one week, over and over, and then the next week Eternal Sunshine, and then another–in your free time–should do wonders for your syntax and familiarity with the language. Or you could watch a movie that’s about a similar topic to the stuff you are reading. Then that would help syntax, comfort level, *and* vocab. – For fun/familiarity: Randomly translating favorite webpages. I did this a lot just to look at vocab and simple grammar. Bored at work? Babelfish a friend’s blog… – For vocabulary: Vocab lists (if this one’s too obvious, forgive me! I just want you to know that I had to do a lot of boring memorization crap too!) You said when you read the stories, you do it with a French/English dictionary. Every time you look a word up, you should write it down, along with its definition. Write one word on the left and its definition far to the right. Then, study the vocab a few times a week, to keep it fresh in your head, by turning down the half of the paper with the definition and guessing. Also refresh your memory before the test. I really struggled at the beginning of Spanish Literature. It took me weeks to get used to the all-foreign-language format. But by the end of the course (or after you have read them a couple times) I was reading the stories *without* the dictionary, remembering the vocabulary or figuring it out from context. And now I can pick up the Spanish Voice on the bus in the Bronx (like I did today) and read articles–extremely slowly ;)! OK. Please please please please please pass French! Study baby, study! I know you can do it. Oh yeah. Don’t be too negative or hard on yourself! You were *really* tired the day of your first French test. Jet-lagged, even. (I’m such a bad influence. *sigh*) [size=9:42ae0c84e0]*Title from Babelfish[/size:42ae0c84e0]
February 16th, 2005 at 3:22 am
What’da ya mean, you didn’t learn French? I hope that you make it through, though. You gotta graduate, man. When is Kinsella’s class? I might just have to crash it… innnnterrresting subject matter.