Counting down
Ah, the most bittersweet night of the week, Sunday is. But it’s really not so bad. I’ve only got two weeks of school left though, so I can slog through no problem. The worst of it is the five remaining Quechua classes, which is really making a mountain out of a molehill, since class is always enjoyable, and never particularly stressful. I just don’t much enjoy it overall, and though I’m learning a little, it seems like a waste of time. It’s a series of ill-explained half-successful in-class exercises, and time consuming dialog recitations. I miss my Russian classes, with their textbooks and small class size and clear goals. I did way overdo some Quechua homework today. We got the remaining class materials emailed to us this weekend and I’ve gotten pretty tired of doing these orally in class so I just did them all ahead of time. It says something about how useless our class really is when I can do the next two weeks worth of home and class work in about two hours before the material is even introduced. I should put that in quotes: “introduced”.
Anyway, it’s been a very nice and very relaxing weekend for it being during the quarter and all. I’ve been doing a lot of baking, which is nice. Made two loaves of whole wheat sandwich bread today, but I haven’t tried it out yet. Maybe tomorrow. I sure am looking forward to getting through all this to finals, by which I mean writing the one paper I have to write and being done with this quarter. I don’t know how much I’m looking forward to next quarter, but the plus side is that I’ve got a whole new set of classes, one of which is with one of my favorite professors from USC. I’m TAing, too, which always makes life sort of fly by. I hope my sections are good! Still not sure whether I can audit my neurobiology class, or whether I’ll just take that pass/fail, but either way, I’m looking forward to change up.