Happy new year! Yes, I realize it's now two weeks into 2004, but I figure better to say it later than never! =P
Actually, I think the lateness of this post is probably sets the tone of this year for me, which is unfortunate. I get the feeling that I'm going to be doing things a lot later than I should be (the evils of procrastination) and otherwise having lots of time management difficulties this year.
It's this foreboding that caused me to drop out of the Hockey Hall of Fame Presents course at Seneca, the day I received my confirmation of enrollment, and the day class began. Actually I already posted about this at RHF, but basically I realized that my act isn't together enough for me to take a sixth course for fun without it resulting in academic suicide. I'm pretty sad about it, actually, because the course sounded really interesting (a course on HOCKEY!!!), but it just would have been too much for me. Plus my mom didn't really want me to take it either, so...
Anyway, the good news for the new year is that I got all of my essays back in the first week of class, and with the exception of the very last essay I handed in (the Enlightenment Europe one), all of them were, surprisingly, A's. Even my Enlightenment Europe one wasn't so bad. I mean, considering that I was expecting to barely pass (50 on the dot, was my prediction), 65% is pretty generous. And the criticisms of my essay were on things I already knew were problems when I was writing the essay, so it's not a matter of incapability, it's just that I need to make sure I spend enough time doing research for the next one. =P
Japanese is about as much work as ever, but at least our first week we didn't have any quizzes, which was a relief. Oh, and I got my oral quiz mark back! 44/50!! Woohoo! That was the highest mark, apparently, but I don't know how many others got it as well. Not that it matters, I'm still extremely pleased. I really ought to thank everyone who went on the first day and gave us hints as to what type of situations they had to make dialogues for--it helped Celine and I to narrow our practice material down. ^_^
What else? Oh, this is just something that happened today. On Wednesdays I always go to the library in UC to do homework, use the computers and to sleep. For the homework and sleep part I like to go to the cubicle way in the back corner, because it's more isolated people are less likely to see me sleeping. Usually it's available, but when I got there today, there was a jacket on the chair and a paper on the desk. So I thought someone was sitting there and went to another desk. Then I turned around and looked more closely, and the guy sitting in the cubicle adjacent to it (the chairs are back to back, so people get into the cubicle the same way, but when they're seated, they're facing opposite directions, if that makes sense) wasn't wearing a jacket, and he didn't have one on his chair either. Considering that it's -20-something degrees, I don't think he would be walking around without one, so I guess that he was just sticking his jacket on the other chair. After observing for a while, I was pretty sure I was correct considering that no one came back to the desk, and the guy was putting stuff into his backpack, which was next to the chair with the jacket. How rude!! Grrr....I was thinking of going up to the guy and asking him to please move his jacket so I could sit there, but in the end I didn't. *sigh* I know it's trivial, but it always irritates me when I don't get "my" seat in the library!
The good thing that happened today in the library, though, is that when I got up to see if a computer was available, a girl was leaving right when I got there! I feel kind of guilty for using the computer for so long (I've been on since 4:00pm), but I'm waiting to bid on something on eBay.
Speaking of which, funnily enough, the thing I'm bidding on isn't for me, it's for my mother. She's been trying to complete her Zodiac stamp/coin collection (the Chinese Zodiac stuff put out by Canada Post), so she asked me to bid on a Dragon coin and stamp set for her. Maybe it's just me, but I find it rather amusing that I've even gotten my mother onto eBay now!! My father would say that they should be paying me, since I've now gotten two people (Steph and my mom) using eBay. Well, technically my mom isn't really using eBay herself, I'm doing the bidding and stuff for her, but she is checking it to buy stuff, so it's the same difference, right? =P
