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Well, I already killed my new version of Photoshop. I installed 1200 fonts and it crashed upon loading. I've never had fonts cause a problem on a computer before (except, maybe back when I had so many that the old 486 couldn't handle the memory) but apparently there's some weird problem with Adobe CS5 and the way Macs process fonts. I had to uninstall them all, and will have to install them one by one figure out which are the killer fonts.
I had my second French class today. It's interesting how the class is taught and how the book is arranged - the section on the grammar - why what is spoken and when, the lovely rules behind the language, is all alone at the very end of the chapters. Hello? I need that right away!
This class is going to require a lot of sitting around listening to French. Watching movie overdubbed in French with French subtitles. Because I seem to be able to catch on to reading French pretty quick, but listening & repeating? Eh, not so much yet. Especially with all the dropped letters in pronunciation, it's hard to get an ear for.
My lit class has been assigning something like 90+ pages of reading for each class. At least it's stuff worth reading so far. Right now we're reading David Malouf's Remembering Babylon and it's really good so far, 43 pages in. I particularly liked this quote: "Since he had somehow found his way into the world, his object, like any other creature's, was to stay in it and by any means he could." And I particularly love the use of the word 'world' because then this passage means not only physical survival but implies the social as well.
Normally, I don't participate in a class the first few weeks, but this one, I'm going to try for at least one or two good comments per day. I've kept it up through two classes so far. However, having to speak in my French class is hell. Especially since, not only is the teacher a native speaker, but there's a student whose family is French and is semi-fluent and there's another guy who seems to have taken quite a bit before.
I have my first biological anthropology class tomorrow.
With the exception of a spur of the moment fifteen-hour camping trip, it's been really hard to get away to do anything. The first few weeks of the semester are hectic - not only am I starting school, but so is Ethan & Jacquelyn is lecturing this semester. There's bills to pay and school supplies to get, cross-country meets to attend, schedules to get used to, dental appointments, vet appointments, and all the regular domesticities that still must get done.
I know, I know, too long; didn't read. In an age of decreasing attention spans and the quirky succinctness of Twitter & Facebook, I refuse to limit my prose! I defy conventions! I say to the internet, "There is no text too long!"
I had my second French class today. It's interesting how the class is taught and how the book is arranged - the section on the grammar - why what is spoken and when, the lovely rules behind the language, is all alone at the very end of the chapters. Hello? I need that right away!
This class is going to require a lot of sitting around listening to French. Watching movie overdubbed in French with French subtitles. Because I seem to be able to catch on to reading French pretty quick, but listening & repeating? Eh, not so much yet. Especially with all the dropped letters in pronunciation, it's hard to get an ear for.
My lit class has been assigning something like 90+ pages of reading for each class. At least it's stuff worth reading so far. Right now we're reading David Malouf's Remembering Babylon and it's really good so far, 43 pages in. I particularly liked this quote: "Since he had somehow found his way into the world, his object, like any other creature's, was to stay in it and by any means he could." And I particularly love the use of the word 'world' because then this passage means not only physical survival but implies the social as well.
Normally, I don't participate in a class the first few weeks, but this one, I'm going to try for at least one or two good comments per day. I've kept it up through two classes so far. However, having to speak in my French class is hell. Especially since, not only is the teacher a native speaker, but there's a student whose family is French and is semi-fluent and there's another guy who seems to have taken quite a bit before.
I have my first biological anthropology class tomorrow.
With the exception of a spur of the moment fifteen-hour camping trip, it's been really hard to get away to do anything. The first few weeks of the semester are hectic - not only am I starting school, but so is Ethan & Jacquelyn is lecturing this semester. There's bills to pay and school supplies to get, cross-country meets to attend, schedules to get used to, dental appointments, vet appointments, and all the regular domesticities that still must get done.
I know, I know, too long; didn't read. In an age of decreasing attention spans and the quirky succinctness of Twitter & Facebook, I refuse to limit my prose! I defy conventions! I say to the internet, "There is no text too long!"
