Freitag
Oh beloved Friday, you have come to bless me again.
Class was great today. We started semantics and it was really bueno. I haven’t done semantics formally before, so it’s great to get a little primer before I take semantics next quarter from the same professor. I’m really looking forward to it!
Had a delightfully social day after that. Dionne came by my office hours to chat about our plan for next week to see if we needed to prep anything this afternoon. We didn’t – hurrah! Lewis came by shortly thereafter, and then we met up with fellow grad student Ariel to chat a bit about how classes are going and set up a Friday drinks plan for one of the upcoming weeks. She’s in our 260 class with us, so it was nice to comisserate about certain things together. She also is TAing this semester, and we’ll be TAing together in the spring. Woot.
Sessions actually did pretty well! Much better than Wednesday, despite feeling like it was going to be a flop. Seems like maybe the Friday kids are whittling down to just the few who want to participate whereas maybe the Wednesday session still attracts those who feel like they should attend but don’t really want to. Not sure. Anyway, it’s always relieving to have another week behind us, and moving on towards the weekend. Next week in sessions we’re talking about semntics, so that’ll be a bit of trouble, but after blazing through syntax today and for once feeling like I know what I’m doing, I’m read to tackle semantics for sure.
Came home and had some vino with Lewis while watching out most recently netflixed movie, Buster Keaton’s “The General”. How much do I love Buster Keaton? A lot! I laugh so much more in his silent movies than I do most of the contemporary “comedies”. It’s really amazing how much he can do with his face, and how acrobatic he is! Good times had by all, for sure. I’m hoping to get a few household-type projects done this weekend in addition to the regular work load. I think I worked too hard last weekend and it really burned me out this week. So I’m going to make cider this weekend, and attempt Clare Hall Soup #1. Really not sure what I’m doing there, but it’s always worth a go. Maybe some day I’ll figure out their secret daily-changing-but-always-sort-of-the-same recipe! Also have a little home maintenance to do with the landlord/inlaws, and maybe my first sewing fix-it project. Oo – and if we can borrow a car — to the you-pick pumpkin patch!!
What good stuff I have in store! Yay!