Allillanchu!
Day two, and I’m already feeling mind-dumb, though not from overwork, which I could be doing. It’s odd, I only have three classes so far, and one of them is Quechua, which I’m auditing, and is an entry-level language class anyway. In other words, I have no work for that class and being a warm body in a seat is about all I need for a grade. I did have semantics today for the first time, and there’s no required reading for that class. Just problem sets, and a paper at the end. Maybe I’ll be feeling more nervous after my first philosophy class on Thursday, but right now I’m feeling really underworked. Even my readership is going slowly – the class I’m reading for doesn’t even have homework due till the 21st, and the professor seems really nice and easy going. What’s a girl to do?
Well, I did sew curtains for our bathroom yesterday. And I’ve been cooking nice dinners. And I did do the laundry today. I’ve been trying to knock back the optional reading for semantics today, but it’s a little draining. It’s the intro chapter to our book and it’s a bit meandery and broad. I’m already missing the excellent source reading I was getting to do for structuralism…. even sociolinguistics! (Consequently, I got an A+ on my socioling paper, and the professor thinks I should use (an expanded version of) it for my first qualifying paper. A bit of a brag, I know, but I can’t think of the last time I got an A+ on a paper!). Anyway… there’s really nothing worse than dry, optional reading.