Ah, Monday nights. Monday nights are my slow n’ easy yoga nights. So round about now, I’m feeling all relaxed and ready to crawl into bed for a restful sleep. It’s always somewhat difficult coming home and trying to decide what to do with myself in these last few hours, but tonight I think bed might win out. Bed and some enjoyable (though still school) reading. It’s the first time I’ve really read science papers outside my discipline, and it’s funny now how relaxing the old structural linguistics books are. These cognitive neuroimaging papers are going to be the death of me!
Today was a nice and abbreviated day. The reading group I thought we had finished setting up apparently didn’t fit enough schedules to go through with, so it’s sort of indefinitely on hold. That’s just fine with me, the short day was nice. CogNeuro was a little troublesome this morning because I hadn’t realized we were supposed to read the papers other people were presenting on in advance and come prepared with questions and all that. So I don’t think I got any participation points, and it bothers me somewhat that it appears my professor writes down the name of everyone who talks in class thus somewhat obliging everyone to have something to say all the time. I understand it’s supposed to make us critical thinkers, but I feel so far out of my domain on these cognitive neuroscience topics, especially the vision research we’re talking about right now, that I seem to either have no questions at all, or they sound dumb to me. Oh well. I’m running through my “options” mantra and reminding myself that ones days worth of performance is nothing that needs to reflect on me generally, and I’ve got all quarter to get myself going on this. Not to mention, I’m feeling a bit pleased with myself for understanding any of what’s going on, and if my deficit reflects itself in an absence of participation… that’s fine.
So I spent the whole rest of my day reading cogneuro papers, and preparing myself for reading more neuroling papers soon. I got that all squared away pretty early, so I still had time to pin and cut Lewis’ jammies! It’ll all be coming together before I know it. I just hope they fit. The material is really comfortable, so I’m not too worried about them being cozy, but it would be nice if they fit in some rational way. Then I took myself off to yoga, and sort of failed to get in “the zone” cause the room was rather crowded and the lady next to me was quite distracting. At the end, though perhaps not feeling all centered, I am at least feeling all stretched. I’d go so far as to even call myself relaxed! And as I said before, that’s my only gym goal. So hurrah, another success.
Now I think Roman Jakobson and I have a study date!