laura (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} meory) wrote,@ 2008-07-01 14:33:00 |
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restless summer
So I finally made a flickr account. It's flickr.com/photos/meory. Pictures of places I go & adventures & fashion experiments & whatnot. I've decided to put a strip of photos ^^^ at the top of lj entries to, er, make things more interesting and inspire myself to start taking pictures of things again, and to add a bit of my daily life to this little journal. So click on each of them to see the bigger photo! woohoo.
I have been feeling quite restless lately. I've been working nights while mostly everyone I know works days, so I've been on my own a lot. I've been wandering around, going to B&N and grabbing stacks of books to read in the cafe. I've been working through a series of lectures by E.E. Cummings (my hero!) called Six Nonlectures. I love reading them because I feel like I am in that lecture hall at Harvard and I can hear the laughter whenever he makes a joke and there is not one moment of boredom anywhere. I adore E.E.
I've also been going to my favorite stores and haunting the discount racks, it's quite a good method to find nice things for almost nothing. However I need to stop spending vast amounts of money so I have imposed a new rule upon myself - after paying bills put half of the remaining paycheck into the bank, and do whatever I want with the other half. It's working well so far.
Basically though, I am almost desperate to go back to school. My equally dorky friend Kyle and I have been calling each other and bemoaning how boring our jobs are and expressing our deep longing for September. I have big plans for this school year, like looking for an internship, seeing if the English department's new literary magazine needs any new editors, and even finding out if I can miraculously scrounge together $4000 to go on the study in England program next summer (one can always dream). I also have an assortment of awesome classes for the fall that I can't wait to start.
ENG 305 Advanced Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
I don't have any real details on this class since a course description wasn't posted, but I know it will be great because the professor is this hilarious & cool guy who awarded me second place in the short story contest last semester and told me I could have a future in writing, which obviously won me over.
ENG 250 Creative Writing: Poetry
I am looking forward to this the most. The professor is probably one of my favorite poets [not to mention one of the most gorgeous men in existence - but he's gay of course, as seems to be the case too often in my life :P]. But anyway, he's very enthusiastic and his classes are full of energy and fun, which I think is school in its best form.
ENG 241 British Literature I
I'm taking this for the 16th-17th century requirement. Not sure of the details & which authors we'll be covering.
ENG 469 The Modern Novel
For the 20th century requirement. Virginia Woolf & Faulkner & some others, focusing on the historical novel.
FRN 207 French Conversation I
This is my Take A Risk class for the semester. I love French, I took French for seven years in junior high & high school, and also I took a French class last semester. I can read French well and write it passably, but I'm a terror in conversation because I have to think about what I'm about to say too much. So I hope this class will help with that. I'm scared though, because I am shy and have trouble talking to strangers in English, never mind French! :P
So I finally made a flickr account. It's flickr.com/photos/meory. Pictures of places I go & adventures & fashion experiments & whatnot. I've decided to put a strip of photos ^^^ at the top of lj entries to, er, make things more interesting and inspire myself to start taking pictures of things again, and to add a bit of my daily life to this little journal. So click on each of them to see the bigger photo! woohoo.
I have been feeling quite restless lately. I've been working nights while mostly everyone I know works days, so I've been on my own a lot. I've been wandering around, going to B&N and grabbing stacks of books to read in the cafe. I've been working through a series of lectures by E.E. Cummings (my hero!) called Six Nonlectures. I love reading them because I feel like I am in that lecture hall at Harvard and I can hear the laughter whenever he makes a joke and there is not one moment of boredom anywhere. I adore E.E.
I've also been going to my favorite stores and haunting the discount racks, it's quite a good method to find nice things for almost nothing. However I need to stop spending vast amounts of money so I have imposed a new rule upon myself - after paying bills put half of the remaining paycheck into the bank, and do whatever I want with the other half. It's working well so far.
Basically though, I am almost desperate to go back to school. My equally dorky friend Kyle and I have been calling each other and bemoaning how boring our jobs are and expressing our deep longing for September. I have big plans for this school year, like looking for an internship, seeing if the English department's new literary magazine needs any new editors, and even finding out if I can miraculously scrounge together $4000 to go on the study in England program next summer (one can always dream). I also have an assortment of awesome classes for the fall that I can't wait to start.
ENG 305 Advanced Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
I don't have any real details on this class since a course description wasn't posted, but I know it will be great because the professor is this hilarious & cool guy who awarded me second place in the short story contest last semester and told me I could have a future in writing, which obviously won me over.
ENG 250 Creative Writing: Poetry
I am looking forward to this the most. The professor is probably one of my favorite poets [not to mention one of the most gorgeous men in existence - but he's gay of course, as seems to be the case too often in my life :P]. But anyway, he's very enthusiastic and his classes are full of energy and fun, which I think is school in its best form.
ENG 241 British Literature I
I'm taking this for the 16th-17th century requirement. Not sure of the details & which authors we'll be covering.
ENG 469 The Modern Novel
For the 20th century requirement. Virginia Woolf & Faulkner & some others, focusing on the historical novel.
FRN 207 French Conversation I
This is my Take A Risk class for the semester. I love French, I took French for seven years in junior high & high school, and also I took a French class last semester. I can read French well and write it passably, but I'm a terror in conversation because I have to think about what I'm about to say too much. So I hope this class will help with that. I'm scared though, because I am shy and have trouble talking to strangers in English, never mind French! :P
