I miss home.
I miss familiar faces.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Poof!
I am so stuffed. Meatballs and spaghetti w/salad were way too much for my belly, especially after left over meatloaf, potato and corn for lunch and soup for brunch. Oof. too...much...food.
Anyways..i'm in the middle of writing my big 12-14 page paper. I'm shooting for 12 pages and am barely on the 3rd one. But the good thing is that I've read through a lot of the texts I checked out for the paper and have a really good feeling about where to take this paper. I just need to finish up some historical context before i get into the thick of analyzing Aves sin Nido ( Birds without a nest) by Clorinda Matto de Turner..then I write on another indigenist writer, Jorge Icaza and I'm done. I'm really hoping to get most of this paper done by tonight because the weather is suppose to be nice tomorow and by nice i really just mean better than it's been today, which has had lots of wind and rain and clouds and sad sad looking skies. Why the rush to get this paper done? My draft is due Tuesday afternoon and I want my "editor" (my sister) to take a look at it before i turn it in. So yep.
Alright, I better get back to work...and then soon i promise to post photos. but if you're too impatient, you can always just check out my flickr site, which is linked on this blog! :)
Anyways..i'm in the middle of writing my big 12-14 page paper. I'm shooting for 12 pages and am barely on the 3rd one. But the good thing is that I've read through a lot of the texts I checked out for the paper and have a really good feeling about where to take this paper. I just need to finish up some historical context before i get into the thick of analyzing Aves sin Nido ( Birds without a nest) by Clorinda Matto de Turner..then I write on another indigenist writer, Jorge Icaza and I'm done. I'm really hoping to get most of this paper done by tonight because the weather is suppose to be nice tomorow and by nice i really just mean better than it's been today, which has had lots of wind and rain and clouds and sad sad looking skies. Why the rush to get this paper done? My draft is due Tuesday afternoon and I want my "editor" (my sister) to take a look at it before i turn it in. So yep.
Alright, I better get back to work...and then soon i promise to post photos. but if you're too impatient, you can always just check out my flickr site, which is linked on this blog! :)
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Mini-Road trip!
Today Brian and I are actually getting out of the southshore and going to Salem!!! It's about an hour drive through the city and up north. We've never been out that way, so it should be interesting. We printed out our maps and our directions, and all that's left is for us to eat and get dressed! It'll be nice to get out and enjoy the pretty weather, fall foliage and october haunts! :D
I'll take lotsa pictures and post them! I promise!
Brenda: "Have you been to Salem before sweetie?"
Brian: "Nope! Have you?"
Brenda: "Oh yeah. Plenty of times." (note: sarcasm)
Oh, and today is Megan's 21st! And even though she won't ever read this, I hope she has a good one! Wasting her parents money and getting drunk. My 21st was rather low-key and on a thursday. Dinner with the family, and a couple drinks at the Cave wtih my sister and her boyfriend.
Oh! Time to go eat!
I'll take lotsa pictures and post them! I promise!
Brenda: "Have you been to Salem before sweetie?"
Brian: "Nope! Have you?"
Brenda: "Oh yeah. Plenty of times." (note: sarcasm)
Oh, and today is Megan's 21st! And even though she won't ever read this, I hope she has a good one! Wasting her parents money and getting drunk. My 21st was rather low-key and on a thursday. Dinner with the family, and a couple drinks at the Cave wtih my sister and her boyfriend.
Oh! Time to go eat!
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Meh.
I'm about --->this <------ close to going home.
I've already talked to my dad about it, who says whenever i want and am ready, i'm more than welcomed back at home. And huerito can join me too. "we may only have frijoles, but it's your home."
And i can't point to one thing here that makes me feel like shit because in reality it's a combination of a lot of things. All of which, i'm sure will get better with time, if i allow it.
I'm just not happy. At least before I felt that school was the only thing that was going well out here, but to be honest, I don't feel that way anymore. My classes aren't difficult. It's the opposite. There's almost no challenge involved thus far. Lectures are mediocre at best. The discussions on the text are superficial, with only reading a handful of pages from a much longer text, and usually reading less than I read of the text as an undergraduate. I don't know if I just got two bad classes, or if the whole program will feel this way.
I guess I should quit bitching and get to work. I have to read one novel, one excerpt, and write three pages tonight. Tomorrow: Finish the book, and write another 3 pages. Then Monday I have 2 pages to write and i won't have to stress about the paper being due thursday. Yeah, am i being responsible? I guess so. Crazy.
I've already talked to my dad about it, who says whenever i want and am ready, i'm more than welcomed back at home. And huerito can join me too. "we may only have frijoles, but it's your home."
And i can't point to one thing here that makes me feel like shit because in reality it's a combination of a lot of things. All of which, i'm sure will get better with time, if i allow it.
I'm just not happy. At least before I felt that school was the only thing that was going well out here, but to be honest, I don't feel that way anymore. My classes aren't difficult. It's the opposite. There's almost no challenge involved thus far. Lectures are mediocre at best. The discussions on the text are superficial, with only reading a handful of pages from a much longer text, and usually reading less than I read of the text as an undergraduate. I don't know if I just got two bad classes, or if the whole program will feel this way.
I guess I should quit bitching and get to work. I have to read one novel, one excerpt, and write three pages tonight. Tomorrow: Finish the book, and write another 3 pages. Then Monday I have 2 pages to write and i won't have to stress about the paper being due thursday. Yeah, am i being responsible? I guess so. Crazy.
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