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In Which I Am Indecisive
Sep. 20th, 2010 07:07 pmToday I pretended I was a person with an actual social life, instead of a person who spends all her time lurking in her apartment. It was weird! But oddly fun.
I got an email last week about a Queer and Questioning women's lunch the first day back, and I thought hey, that sounds sorta fun, and also free food. Free food is always a good thing. I almost chickened out of going - not really out of the weirdness of being out in a semi-academic setting, although that's a bit new, but just because there would be STRANGE PEOPLE THERE AND I WOULD HAVE TO MAKE SMALL TALK OMG. Whatever, I have issues with unscripted social situations, this isn't new. But I sucked it up and went anyway, and it was a lot of fun, and the people I met were really nice. (PS:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
estarial, I think I met one of your freshmen. She was adorable!) I may have to try to get more involved in that stuff this year. We'll see.
My Genre Fiction class looks both awesome and terrifying. On the one hand, we're spending the quarter reading hard-boiled detective stories, trashy romance novels, and spy thrillers, and goddess knows I love ridiculous genre fiction, especially when I'm picking it apart. On the other hand...we're reading two to three novels a week. And the final research paper doesn't bear thinking about. I'm keeping it, if only because it's directly relevant to my interests, but it sure is intimidating. On the bright side, my friend T is also in it, which should make things entertaining. And my summer of reading Sherlock fanfic was not wasted, because I can now recognize Sherlock Holmes passages blind even though I've only ever read A Study In Scarlet.
I still haven't made up my mind about my last GER class. Chinese culture today was reasonable engaging, and the overall workload doesn't look all that bad. It's definitely still an option. But South Asian Music is making itself difficult to think about. It's an odd situation where all the details of the class make me want to go OH HELL NO and just hie off to comfortable territory. I don't want to have my schedule skewed out of order, with one super-long day and one super-short day. I don't want a big final project. I DON'T WANT TO PERFORM MUSIC IN FRONT OF OTHER PEOPLE. Buuuuuuut...I actual concept of the course, and the topics on the syllabus, are so fascinating-sounding that I feel like if I drop it, I'll be missing out on a chance to take a really unique, exciting class. I don't know. I'm going tomorrow, at least. I don't like things being so indeterminate, but I guess I'll get it resolved one way or another.
I got an email last week about a Queer and Questioning women's lunch the first day back, and I thought hey, that sounds sorta fun, and also free food. Free food is always a good thing. I almost chickened out of going - not really out of the weirdness of being out in a semi-academic setting, although that's a bit new, but just because there would be STRANGE PEOPLE THERE AND I WOULD HAVE TO MAKE SMALL TALK OMG. Whatever, I have issues with unscripted social situations, this isn't new. But I sucked it up and went anyway, and it was a lot of fun, and the people I met were really nice. (PS:
estarial, I think I met one of your freshmen. She was adorable!) I may have to try to get more involved in that stuff this year. We'll see.My Genre Fiction class looks both awesome and terrifying. On the one hand, we're spending the quarter reading hard-boiled detective stories, trashy romance novels, and spy thrillers, and goddess knows I love ridiculous genre fiction, especially when I'm picking it apart. On the other hand...we're reading two to three novels a week. And the final research paper doesn't bear thinking about. I'm keeping it, if only because it's directly relevant to my interests, but it sure is intimidating. On the bright side, my friend T is also in it, which should make things entertaining. And my summer of reading Sherlock fanfic was not wasted, because I can now recognize Sherlock Holmes passages blind even though I've only ever read A Study In Scarlet.
I still haven't made up my mind about my last GER class. Chinese culture today was reasonable engaging, and the overall workload doesn't look all that bad. It's definitely still an option. But South Asian Music is making itself difficult to think about. It's an odd situation where all the details of the class make me want to go OH HELL NO and just hie off to comfortable territory. I don't want to have my schedule skewed out of order, with one super-long day and one super-short day. I don't want a big final project. I DON'T WANT TO PERFORM MUSIC IN FRONT OF OTHER PEOPLE. Buuuuuuut...I actual concept of the course, and the topics on the syllabus, are so fascinating-sounding that I feel like if I drop it, I'll be missing out on a chance to take a really unique, exciting class. I don't know. I'm going tomorrow, at least. I don't like things being so indeterminate, but I guess I'll get it resolved one way or another.